Putting the cool back into law school
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Once you get near final exams, most students stop going out, stop drinking, and generally stop having fun. There’s a switch that flips in most law students without them even knowing it. And it’s a switch they should resist. If you need to work 16 hours a day in order to sleep during the other [...]
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Intimidate those who intimidate others. That’s my job, Carl. Officer Frank Tenpenny, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas My friend told me a story from when he was taking the bar exam. It was the day of the Multistate Bar Exam and with 60-90 minutes left, he was finished. 100 questions in an hour and a [...]
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I have to start this off with a confession. When I wrote the initial part of this series, I mentioned something to effect of deciding how much you would study for a class based on what the curve looked like. That advice is probably a bad idea. More important than dictating how you spend your [...]
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This is the fourth in a series on law school curves. Read part three here. The quality of the class and the students can tell you a lot about how closely a curve is going to track the published number or the historical record. But for my money, the best predictor of how a curve [...]
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This is the third in a series of posts on law school curves. Read part two here. Let’s return to the original quote that kicked this off: During my run, I realized that I am only irritable in my easy classes. The problem I have with easy classes is the curve. Easy classes mean arbitrary [...]
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This is the second in a series about law school curves. Read part one here. Yesterday in the first part of this series, I took a look at just the curve itself and what it might mean when you approach finals. The gist is that when a class is on the high end of the [...]
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Thanksgiving is a stressful time for many people, but especially for law students. Thanksgiving for most people starts a month or so of excessive spending, excessive eating, and excessive time with people we really don’t care for, medicated by excessive alcohol. For law students, it means the start of finals, which means excessive work, excessive [...]
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I enjoy taking tests. I’ve never been shy about that fact. I’ve probably thought about taking tests more than just about anyone that doesn’t have a postgraduate degree in education. I will admit, without shame, that I enjoyed finals in law school better than the classes. As we get ready for another finals period, here [...]
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