Going off to College

[Caliga]

Lettuce, where are you going... U of the Cumberlands?

[Lettow77]

 UT Martin, rather.

Marksmanship really isnt a big deal. My overall GPA will be fine, but a little padding is perfectly acceptable, and I -do- need some sort of activity class here and there. As far as activities go, the ones where I shoot stuff are my clear personal favourites, so thats why archery and marksmanship. A citizen has a responsibility to acquit himself well with firearms.

I understand and previously held y'alls concerns about law school, but its really no problem. My classes will suit me well for law school, as I intend to take classes on constitutional law, rhetoric and the like, but I am not going to go to higher education and neglect history, which is my driving passion.

Edit: I am minoring in business, anyhow. Political science/history/business is a good template for law, I feel.

[alfred russel]

BB, you took geology? In that instance, I am even less worried about taking history.

I initially viewed it as a selfish decision, as I love history but it does not necesarily pay bills, but I am not too worried. In senior year i'll dabble in a few law oriented classes regardless.

You should be worried that your wackjob historical opinions will get you into some controversy and blackballed from any law school diligent enough to do a google search or read professor recommendations.

[stjaba]

As far as padding the GPA goes, when you apply to law school, you have to submit your transcript to the LSADS. The LSADS re-calculates your GPA according to its standards, which means, among other things, that BS classes are removed from your overall average.

[Lettow77]

 If my father can get into law school with his political opinions, I can too.

And if they wont accept me, I wouldent want to go.

But I think you underestimate the degree of acceptance confederate nutjobs get around here. 

[Caliga]

Lettuce will be fine, people.

[Caliga]

With hindsight, I wish I had studied history as my undergrad instead of geology.

Hilariously, I occasionally wish I had studied geology instead of history! 

[alfred russel]

If my father can get into law scohol with his political opinions, I can too.

And if they wont accept me, I wouldent want to go.

But I think you underestimate the degree of acceptance confederate nutjobs get around here.

How is your father's law practice going?

[Lettow77]

Thank you for the acceptance, caliga

Maybe we should visit sometime! I'd bring you some gift or another.

[Caliga]

  You remind me of me when I was your age, young man.  I even had a love affair with the Confederacy going on (including a big stars and bars hanging in my room).  I still love the South, obviously, but have turned my Confederacy-sympathy into a broader love of the Civil War.

Also, I now think Tennessee might be my favorite Southern state after Kentucky.  It used to be Georgia but Atlanta has changed considerably since I was a kid, and entirely for the worse.

Anyway, as for a meetup... given where you'll be going to school, I've been planning for a while to visit Kentucky and Reelfoot Lakes and it looks like you'll be right by there.  No concrete date yet but it'll probably happen in the next year or so.

[Alcibiades]

You guys make me vomit.

[ulmont]

History is a poor choice for law school, IMO.

Meh.  I did Computer Science, and it hasn't hurt anything.

[Strix]

Lettuce will be fine, people.

Of course he will. It's college. If you can't be extreme in college than where can you?!?

[Barrister]

With hindsight, I wish I had studied history as my undergrad instead of geology.

Hilariously, I occasionally wish I had studied geology instead of history! 

Why? 

I found intro geology to be really interesting.  It's really just a really big history class - the history of the earth.  But it was the 2nd and 3rd year classes that nearly killed me, spending hours staring down a microscope at mineral samples.  Optical Mineralogy FTL.

[callmeclemens]

Marksmanship isn't that ridiculous, I had gone to school at a university in West Virginia that offered Water polo and basket weaving as courses.