Law School is a Joke.

[Faeelin]

I don't know it personally, but I understand that it is one of the best schools in the country.

You'd think so, but then you meet the students.

[Josquius]

4.0 I take it is the highest under whatever system this is? Good going. Theres a large amount down to luck of course in such things and of course getting the teachers onside but still, impressive.

[Malthus]

You'd think so, but then you meet the students.

Again my experience going through law school was very different. I was surprised at how ferociously smart the other students were. In undergraduate I was used to being the smart guy in the room - in law school, that wasn't true at all.

Also, the way law school exams were organized, it was practically impossible to get a straight A score across the board.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Congrats. That's great. I never had a semester like that. But then I never tried very hard, either. Animal House had far too big an influence on my generation of University Freshmen.

[KRonn]

Anyhow, congrats on doing well. Keep it up!

[Grey Fox]

So I take you didn't read much of Languish in the past 9 months??

[garbon]

You must have worked really hard.

[Iormlund]

That's what you get for choosing law over proper degrees in engineering or pure sciences.

[Faeelin]

That's what you get for choosing law over proper degrees in engineering or pure sciences.

Hah. I almost made the misake of going for a PhD in biology, and spent the summer of my junoior year working at a lab. Needless to say, I felt kinda bad about ditching them.

Again my experience going through law school was very different. I was surprised at how ferociously smart the other students were. In undergraduate I was used to being the smart guy in the room - in law school, that wasn't true at all.

Also, the way law school exams were organized, it was practically impossible to get a straight A score across the board.

I was mostly joking; most of the people here at pretty bright with some that are pretty clearly geniuses. But there's also a large fraboyish element, often involving those who came from Ivy League schools. My experience thus far has been that the smarter students are the ones who went to state schools, which I find amusing.

[Barrister]

You'd think so, but then you meet the students.

Again my experience going through law school was very different. I was surprised at how ferociously smart the other students were. In undergraduate I was used to being the smart guy in the room - in law school, that wasn't true at all.

Also, the way law school exams were organized, it was practically impossible to get a straight A score across the board.

Well I certainly did not get a 4.0 average in law school, so I'm impressed Faeelin. 

But then again nobody got straight As at my school.  My law school ran on a B average curve and I felt damn proud of the handful of As that I did receive.    I did manage a full B+ average one year and that was good enough for me to be in the Dean's List (top 10%).  I don't think the gold medallist got straight As.

I found law school to bery quite easy, with 3 weeks of hell at exam time.  Coming from a science degree I found it amazing how much less work was expected of us.

[Faeelin]

But then again nobody got straight As at my school.  My law school ran on a B average curve and I felt damn proud of the handful of As that I did receive.    I did manage a full B+ average one year and that was good enough for me to be in the Dean's List (top 10%).  I don't think the gold medallist got straight As.

I found law school to bery quite easy, with 3 weeks of hell at exam time.  Coming from a science degree I found it amazing how much less work was expected of us.

I have to agree with you about the science degree, actually. You can really tell who was a humanity's major before coming to law school, and it pleases me a bit. 

There's been a bit of grade inflation nationwide since then, I think; NYU now shoots for the 50th percentile to be a mix of B+s and Bs.

[fhdz]

Nice going, man.

[Malthus]

Well I certainly did not get a 4.0 average in law school, so I'm impressed Faeelin. 

But then again nobody got straight As at my school.  My law school ran on a B average curve and I felt damn proud of the handful of As that I did receive.    I did manage a full B+ average one year and that was good enough for me to be in the Dean's List (top 10%).  I don't think the gold medallist got straight As.

I found law school to bery quite easy, with 3 weeks of hell at exam time.  Coming from a science degree I found it amazing how much less work was expected of us.

[predictable] Yeah but you went to U of M, where they hand out diplomas as the prize from a box of cracker jacks. [/predictable] 

U of T ran on a C+ curve average. I was very happy to get a few A's - it was considered a significant feat to get even one - and my good B average sufficed to get me a job at our firm.

An A average would be very, very unusual indeed - the few people capable of that would probably have clerked for the Supreme Court.

Disagree on the notion that law school was less work than sciences. I myself did not do hard sciences, but I certainly knew people who did and later went to law school, and their opinion was pretty unanimously otherwise.

[Malthus]

I was mostly joking; most of the people here at pretty bright with some that are pretty clearly geniuses. But there's also a large fraboyish element, often involving those who came from Ivy League schools. My experience thus far has been that the smarter students are the ones who went to state schools, which I find amusing.

No frat types I can remember at U of T - gotta ask BB about that: he was a "frat boy". 

[Scipio]

I intuit that you are attending Fordham.

But congrats anyway.