November 2009
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“Is it bad that I’m not flipping out? I feel like flipping out won’t help, so...”
– Mariel on finals. Do take some time to figure whether flipping out about finals is really the most productive use of your time.
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“The most important thing that is taught in law school is the art of ass busting.”
– Jansen on the art of ass busting. Go read the rest of the post. I could just fill the queue on this thing with quotes for that post for a good two days.
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“4. Follow the guidelines. Many times applicants attempt to tweak the font size,...”
– Clear Admit with the single best piece of advice on admissions you’ll get. If you’re at the point where your essay is a major factor getting admitted, you cannot afford to shoot yourself in the foot by not following the rules.
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“10. Relax. Nothing freaks law students out more than a fellow law student who...”
– Katie Luper saving the best for last in a list of 10 things to do on a law school campus during finals
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“Get it done and move on — you’ve got finals you should be studying...”
– Butterflyfish with some tough love for 1Ls trying to buy a memo.
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“That said, if you’re jumping into law school to defer the inevitable...”
– Louis Grobe on whether 0Ls should apply to law school
To me, this is explains the gap in logic when countless law students moan about not being employable. A large portion of law students came to law school because they had nothing better to do, and now they want the guarantees and professional...
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Inappropriate Venue: Sweet Revenge - Above the Law →
New weekly series on ATL about how law school thinking pops up in the worst places.
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Tech Tips for Law Students
Laura Bergus, now writing part time for the Lawyerist, has some productivity tips especially for law students and lawyers:
1. CiteGenie. I learned the hard way how much I depended on CiteGenie my first year of law school—when I was at a computer without this great Firefox extension installed and I had to actually copy down a case citation. When you copy something to your computer’s clipboard,...
On Law School Curves, Part Two: The Students —... →
This is part two of my essay on curves, focusing on how the quality of the students in a class can affect the curve.
On Law School Curves, Part One — Fearfully... →
This is part one of an essay on curves and how law students should approach classes I wrote on the long-form blog. Part two will hopefully be up tomorrow.
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“I have, of course, vacated the xbox, placed the band on ice, excused myself from...”
– The Corner In The Middle on what could affectionately be called “going into the cave.”
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“Hi. I am here, post-meltdown.
In case you were wondering, yes, this is a...”
– I think accepting that this is a normal law school thing is one of the big problems with law school (Thanks, But No Thanks.: This is just to say…)
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Good value for the money?
To make this bleakness a little darker, let’s consider all the things I could have bought INSTEAD of my legal education:
Boob jobs for twelve people
One Diet Dr. Pepper every day for the next 329 years
A cozy four bedroom home in Gorst, Washington (with 20K to spare!)
Two Hummer H2 SUVs
9,230 trips up the Space Needle
Half of a fast food restaurant franchise
1/10th of a head...
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Law School Tuition Hikes Spread Like Wildfires in... →
UC Davis is proposing tuition of $60,000 for out-of-state students in 2012-13. UC Davis is a good school, but seriously. UC-freaking-Davis? Tuition at Yale this year is only $46,000. Is UC Davis really worth about 25% more than Yale?
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Super Law School Rankings - Above the Law →
1. Harvard Law School 2. University of Michigan Law School 3. The University of Texas School of Law 4. University of Virginia School of Law 5. Georgetown University Law Center 6. New York University School of Law 7. Columbia Law School 8. University of Florida Levin College of Law 9. University of California Berkeley School of Law 10. Yale Law School 11. University of California Hastings...
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“To say that I am noncommittal to law school is unfair. I felt noncommittal...”
– Goals for law school
Jansen pretty much nails the problem when law students don’t want to get on the treadmill and chase the same golden tickets that the law school is telling you to go after. And he nails the attitude you have to have about law school.
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“The worst of it is, I know these aren’t bad people. I know they are good,...”
– Somebody shake me, please: Bear with me*
I think the author of this blog post is making a flawed assumption about the people in law school. If people in your law school are a bunch of jerks, it might seem like you’re doing everyone a favor by giving them the benefit of the doubt. Law school...
Law School Is Not a Balance Sheet
When most people hear that something is broken, there is a prevailing attitude today that you just have to recognize that the thing is broken and start applying some attention to it. It’s almost as if by noticing the problem and thinking about how to solve it, you have solved it.
Unfortunately, this is not working for the economy. I’m not going to pretend that I know how long economic...
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Minimal Mac: Hotel at Home - Minimizing The...
minimalmac:
Pro parenting tip, and this is one that was all my friend’s idea but I thought it was brilliant – Meet Mr. Shut-up:
If you ever work out of the home, and you have kids, then you know that sometimes you may need to take a call and not have it sound as if you are working out of your home with kids. That is where Mr. Shut-up comes in. Let your critters know that, when Mr. Shut-up is...
