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Jan. 2nd, 2006 11:10 amI LJ suck - it seems I only LJ as a way to fight ADHD at work or when I'm unhappy. As I'm inbetween semesters I've been super-social with a couple people (and parties since I don't have time for many dear friends - you know the madness that is my life right now, happy madness, but madness none-the-less) I have mostly blown off LJ. However, I am here doing errands (on-line errands, wow) and to my shock I received an email from a prof:
"Jose – Nice job! Paper grade: 98 Writing grade: A Course grade: A"
It's only a 2cr course, but at least my record is consistent: while law school is the first time I have not been cum laude in college/grad school, I have yet to have a semester that was "A free."
A notice to people who talk to people who are in law school: Law school is not like graduate school. There is no comparison. Shut up.
1. All classes are graded on a curve - that does not mean curved up. That means everyone there is scored against their peers no matter how good or bad they do. The good not only study, but outline, buy commercial outlines, study in groups and separately, research prior exams, take sample exams at real-time speed under realistic conditions, research the academic works of the professor to guess what they ask and like to hear, and may research the professors the professor studied under.
2. GPA is meaningless. Saying "I'm sure you got an A or a B" doesn't apply. Class rank is the only measure in law school - it determines your ability to get a job.
3. You cannot do law school like grad school. You cannot take a class or two at a time - you must take what you are told when you are told for at least the first year, and you carry at least 3 classes per term even if working full-time and taking classes part time.
When you start to talk to a law student and compare their experience to your grad school experience, or offer advice to the law student, you may notice a grinding noise. That is the sound of gritted and grinding teeth as the law student subverts the urge to wrap their tired fingers around your neck.
While I'm at it:
Graduate school is not like getting an MBA. Athletes often get MBAs. MBAs are fake grad degrees. MBAs are graduate degrees you can get from correspondence / internet "colleges." An MBA is the equivalent of going to confession "Forgive me, for I chose a bad major in college and my alternative plans to riches have failed." "Yes my son/daughter. Go to the alter, say 5,000 Hail Marys, and pay the coffers another $20-50 grand."
"Jose – Nice job! Paper grade: 98 Writing grade: A Course grade: A"
It's only a 2cr course, but at least my record is consistent: while law school is the first time I have not been cum laude in college/grad school, I have yet to have a semester that was "A free."
A notice to people who talk to people who are in law school: Law school is not like graduate school. There is no comparison. Shut up.
1. All classes are graded on a curve - that does not mean curved up. That means everyone there is scored against their peers no matter how good or bad they do. The good not only study, but outline, buy commercial outlines, study in groups and separately, research prior exams, take sample exams at real-time speed under realistic conditions, research the academic works of the professor to guess what they ask and like to hear, and may research the professors the professor studied under.
2. GPA is meaningless. Saying "I'm sure you got an A or a B" doesn't apply. Class rank is the only measure in law school - it determines your ability to get a job.
3. You cannot do law school like grad school. You cannot take a class or two at a time - you must take what you are told when you are told for at least the first year, and you carry at least 3 classes per term even if working full-time and taking classes part time.
When you start to talk to a law student and compare their experience to your grad school experience, or offer advice to the law student, you may notice a grinding noise. That is the sound of gritted and grinding teeth as the law student subverts the urge to wrap their tired fingers around your neck.
While I'm at it:
Graduate school is not like getting an MBA. Athletes often get MBAs. MBAs are fake grad degrees. MBAs are graduate degrees you can get from correspondence / internet "colleges." An MBA is the equivalent of going to confession "Forgive me, for I chose a bad major in college and my alternative plans to riches have failed." "Yes my son/daughter. Go to the alter, say 5,000 Hail Marys, and pay the coffers another $20-50 grand."
