The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

Wait, what? Your exams are 100% of your grade?

Yeah.  I've not done an exam in years either

No need to worry it's like riding a bicycle.

[Sheilbh]

Wait, what? Your exams are 100% of your grade?

Yeah.  I've not done an exam in years either

No need to worry it's like riding a bicycle.

Hopefully I won't be the Johnny Hoogerland of my year

[jimmy olsen]

I hated my written law exams. Usually we had five hours time. It took you between 30 to 60 minutes to understand the case and the questions posed, and make a draft of your approach. Then four hours writing like mad to bring this concept into the required formal prose, praying you wouldn't run out of time.

You're a lawyer too! How many do we have?

[jimmy olsen]

Supposedly Charlton Heston's gun vault!

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[Capetan Mihali]

Hey, Mihali, I thought you were a 1L, dude.  But Evidence would suggest not.  Perhaps I was wrong.

Well, in that case, forget what I said about studying.  Law school proper is over anyway.  You've won or lost already.

I did very mediocre my first year, but luckily Harvard did away with real grades a few years ago.  So I just need to hoist myself out of the bottom 8% and into the Pass range that makes up the majority.

I didn't do any firm interviewing in the summer, so I pretty much committed myself to the public defender track I'm on now. 

[Ideologue]

You. Go. To. Harvard.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#$^$##THGRYHXESYGR $Wgrfagrg dfsesfegbgsbdfrgfgfagdhtyki$erotiDIE

I mean, congratulations.  Allow me to correct myself.  You've won already.

[Josquius]

I love the Swedish system. Fail, pass or distinction. The way things should be. None of this 1st and 2nd bollocks.

[garbon]

You. Go. To. Harvard.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#$^$##THGRYHXESYGR $Wgrfagrg dfsesfegbgsbdfrgfgfagdhtyki$erotiDIE

I mean, congratulations.  Allow me to correct myself.  You've won already.

Yeah we already knew this.

[Capetan Mihali]

You. Go. To. Harvard.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#$^$##THGRYHXESYGR $Wgrfagrg dfsesfegbgsbdfrgfgfagdhtyki$erotiDIE

I mean, congratulations.  Allow me to correct myself.  You've won already.

Sorry, you weren't really on the boards much when I was applying, etc., so I wasn't sure if you knew.   

[Ideologue]

I was busy.

Seriously, I am pleased you are doing well.  Jealousy's kinda stupid.  It doesn't make my life better if you aren't doing great.   So I am glad you are doing great.  (And you'll be fine in Evidence.  Evidence is reasonably easy.  Granted, I took Evidence from a federal judge who had no time/stomach for reading seventy people's shitty essay answers, so it was multiple choice, and he was a good, to-the-point teacher.)

I think you're doing the right thing, as well.  Even for Harvard dudes, I am made to understand that BigLaw is still 1)somewhat risky and 2)brutal and brutalizing.  You help those people.

[Josephus]

I hated my written law exams. Usually we had five hours time. It took you between 30 to 60 minutes to understand the case and the questions posed, and make a draft of your approach. Then four hours writing like mad to bring this concept into the required formal prose, praying you wouldn't run out of time.

You're a lawyer too! How many do we have?

One's too many.

[MadImmortalMan]

Apparently, my hometown in Ohio is a hotbed of trainspotting. Or "railfanning". A youtube search for the town returns hundreds of boring-ass videos of trains going by. 

[Caliga]

Apparently, my hometown in Ohio is a hotbed of trainspotting. Or "railfanning". A youtube search for the town returns hundreds of boring-ass videos of trains going by. 

I don't get that railfan shit.   Dudes like to go to every train crossing out there and watch trains cross it, right?  um.... why?

[Habbaku]

One's too many.

The law firms would seem to agree.

[Capetan Mihali]

  So I am glad you are doing great.

Well, getting into Harvard was nice but didn't make me any saner, and the last year-and-a-half has probably aggravated my mental state much worse than it was this time 2009, which wasn't that great to begin with...