Law Students

Reality Bites

Posted on June 25, 2009
A scene from Useless Law School, 2:30pm this afternoon, 3 girls, hundreds of note cards, random books stacked up everywhere, and not nearly enough caffeine to survive. In walks Big Wig:Big Wig: Check it out, I bought note cards! (he holds up a package of 100 blank index cards)Me: That's cool, why'd you buy those?Big Wig: Well I figure I should maybe make flashcards for the bar after all...

It's Official

Posted on June 23, 2009
I've officially earned my J.D. I got the last of the grades today and it was WAY better than I was expecting- a great surprise and a for sure GPA saver. My GPA isn't great and my class rank is rather pathetic, but I managed to escape law school with a higher final GPA than my GPA in my chemistry minor was in college, so I'll consider than an accomplishment :)Speaking of chemistry, I absolutely would prefer to relearn and retake an entire year of college organic chemistry instead of trying to figure out Property...

Finally

Posted on June 17, 2009
It took a full flipping month after graduation, but Useless law finally got around to posting 75% of my final semester grades yesterday. They aren't great, I have definitely done better and my overall GPA will for sure take a big hit. But good news is, I for sure graduated...

Useless Cast of Characters

Posted on June 14, 2009
When I started blogging back in August of 2006 I didn't have any method of how I was going to identify the people who make up my useless life that I sometimes write about. Recently I've decided that it would be much easier to write and keep things straight if I gave everyone a bloggy name (cause if I'm anonymous they should be to)...

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Not Sure What to Make of It

Posted on June 13, 2009
At the beginning of the final semester of law school, my Law School BFF and I started going to trivia at one of the local restaurants/bars near useless law school. At first it was just the two of us, blowing off some steam and making friends with the regular bartenders...

Run Run as Fast as You Can

Posted on June 08, 2009
Today Useless Law School was an LSAT testing site. Since the June LSAT exam is on a Monday afternoon (as opposed to the typical Saturday morning time slots of the other exams), when I got out of BarBri at at noon today there were tons of stressed people hanging out in the lobby of Useless Law anxiously anticipating/dreading the start of the exam...

Gentle request of my non-law friends and family

Posted on June 07, 2009
I know that you are all trying to be supportive, but please, I am begging you, stop asking me about the bar exam! I don't want to detail for you what exactly I'm studying, what exactly is involved in bar prep, what exactly is on the exam, what exactly the practice exam that I took today entailed, or answer any other mundane questions you might think up for me about the bar between now and the end of July...

Autobiography (oh how I love procrastinating!)

Posted on June 07, 2009
Shamelessly taken from Silly Little Law Student, this is so much better than studying for the barzam!MY AUTOBIOGRAPHYWhere did you take your Facebook profile picture? Backyard of my parent's house.What exactly are you wearing right now? My favorite comfy pjs...

The first of many Barzam WFT?

Posted on June 06, 2009
WTF KaplanPMBR- I'm pretty sure you're answer to this practice question is wrong, and very frankly this question is just bad bad bad all the way around, WTF?Here's the question (paraphrased slightly cause it's LONG:J had a cat named M. Cat is worth $500...

To the Pointe

Posted on June 04, 2009
When I was 4 years old my mom put me in a ballet/tap combo class for one hour every week. I immediately fell in love with the ballet part of it and have been dancing ever since. All through high school I was pretty serious about it, I did at least 3 hours of class a week and did the whole pointe shoe thing, but once college rolled around I didn't have time to make it to my regular studio and never really did find a studio near Useless University that I loved, so I stopped dancing on a regular basis...

Is astrology trying to tell me something?

Posted on June 03, 2009
I've never been one to take horoscopes seriously, but my horoscope today is almost so spot on with how bar prep has been going for me this week that it's almost scary:You might have mixed emotions about what you need to do at work today, yet you cannot put off your decision too much longer...

A Final Letter (hopefully!) to Useless Law

Posted on June 01, 2009
Dear Useless Law School,It's been 16 days since graduation for the class of 2009, and 18 days since final exams for the Spring 2009 semester ended. I know that posting grades in a timely manner has never been a forte of yours. The professors at Useless Law are rather lazy about grading, especially over the summer break, and sometimes it's July before we finally know how the spring semester turned out...

Useless Book?

Posted on May 31, 2009
I've had quite a few ideas for blog posts pop into my head over the last year or so, but it seems I never get around to writing them. Whenever I get an idea and actually remember it long enough I jot it down on a post it or in a running stream of consciousness document I save on my computer...

Pool Fail

Posted on May 29, 2009
I'm not much of a summer person, I actually far prefer winter because I love skiing and actually don't really mind the snow except for when it creates big drama on the morning or evening commute. And to top it off I absolutely hate the heat, so anything above about 80 degrees and I start to get crabby...

Unsolicited Bar Advice

Posted on May 28, 2009
Many of my friends who have already taken and passed the bar exam have offered up plenty of unsolicited advice to me in the past few weeks about how to approach bar exam studying, I thought I'd share their advice here for those of you who are interested...

The Official Start of Barbri

Posted on May 27, 2009
The first day of barbri was a bit like the first day of school. It's been 2 weeks since graduation so there was a lot to catch up on with friends and there were lots of new faces, which I assume are students from the other Useless state law school, out of state students, or attorneys who are unlucky enough to not get reciprocity into Useless state...

Train Wreck Part Two

Posted on May 26, 2009
If I had bet $100 on my internship backtracking/changing the story from what they told me last week then I'd be $100 richer today. In the days that followed the conversation with HR about not coming back after the bar because I wasn't getting a permanent offer I contacted my direct supervisor as well as the supervisor above her to inquire as to what had happened, why I wasn't being considered, etc, because I wanted to know specific reasons before starting the quest for another job...

Train Wreck

Posted on May 21, 2009
So apparently that lunch meeting didn't go well. I got a call from the human resources director yesterday, my last day at work was last friday. The understanding at that time was that all of the interns would be back in August after the bar and then intern until bar results in October...

Here Goes Nothing

Posted on May 19, 2009
After a fabulous day off in which I slept in, cleaned my apartment that was starting to look more and more like a frat house on a daily basis, and watched 3 glorious hours of great TV (yes the Bachelorette qualifies as great TV), I decided I should start this whole bar prep thing that people keep twittering/talking/blogging about...

Useless Dicta, J.D.

Posted on May 18, 2009
Graduation was fun, exiting, and totally exhausting. I'm taking today off to get my chaotic life back in order, but bar prep starts bright and early tomorrow morning so I'm sure I'll have plenty of things to blog about once that begins :)

One Million Five Thousand Seventy Six Eight Hundred Minutes

Posted on May 15, 2009
1,576,800 minutes.* That's how many minutes make up 3 years. It's a huge number. It seems like it should take a long time to get through that many minutes. 3 years ago I was finishing up my thesis, having fun with friends, and getting ready to graduate and head to law school...

And then there were NONE

Posted on May 11, 2009
Law school for this useless law student ended today at 11:01am :)I had fair warning that the end of law school doesn't necessarily lead to a musical worthy grand finale, so I prepared by grabbing some celebratory beverages last night on my way home from the library...

And Then There Was One

Posted on May 09, 2009
Just one more exam left and I'll be done with law school forever. As much as I've hated law school at times, I'm not really sure that it's fully hit me yet that in T-minus 50.5 hours I'll be completely and totally done with law school. A lot has happened in the last 3 years, and yet I have no idea where the hell time went...

Money Freakout

Posted on May 07, 2009
For some reason I decided I should check my student loan accounts. I about had a heart attack when I found that payments on my grad plus loans start NEXT FREAKING MONTH. Apparently there is no grace period on those. AHHHHHH.Thankfully after some frantic calls I found out that a forbearance can be applied to the grad plus loans to align my first payment on those with my first payment on my stafford loans (ie: give me a 6 month grace period)...

Or Maybe it Should be 20 Words

Posted on May 06, 2009
Friend of mine pointed out that 3 more words need to be added onto the 17 word description of law school:Don't get caught.Too bad passing corporations is going to take slightly more than 17 or 20 words.

Law School in 17 Words

Posted on May 05, 2009
My little sis (who is a college freshman) summed up law school in 17 brilliant words when I explained to her that I had to relearn Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Torts, and Contracts for my legal analysis final on Thursday:Don't do bad stuff. Don't steal people's shit...

The end in numbers

Posted on May 03, 2009
Total number of classes in final law school semester: 4Number of exams completed so far: 2Number of exams left: 2Hours spent in library prepping for final semester exams: at least 30 at this pointHours of prep still needed to get ready for remaining exams: at least 30Number of lattes consumed: too manyNumber of times I've jammed to Livin on a Prayer in the law library: 5Number of times I've listened to Scheherazade all the way through: 10Hours wasted procrastinating: at least 5Average hours of sleep per night: 5...

Where the Story Ends Part II

Posted on April 28, 2009
I officially finished my very last law school class ever about 3 hours ago. I promptly hit the local bar across the street from [Useless] Law to celebrate with friends who were also finally finished. After returning to the library ever so slightly inebriated I've decided that library time would be much more enjoyable if I just always made it a habit to drink before coming to commence the "studying" process...

Full Circle

Posted on April 21, 2009
If you had told me four years ago that the most major academic assignment I had ever worked on at that point in my life would one day possibly open the door to the job that I didn't even know I wanted as an undergrad I would have thought you had gone nuts...

Paying Off The Nasty Loans

Posted on April 18, 2009
**Disclaimer, the advice contained within this post is most likely (okay totally NOT) legal***Last weekend while we were interviewing the enthusiastic 1 and 2L students for next year's Journal Board, a fellow current board member decided all of us current board peeps should come up with a brilliant ponzi scheme, split the profits, and pay off our law school loans in 12 months flat...

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