Miscellaneous

Hey, University of Chicago law students -- shut up!

Last month, following Spring Break, the University of Chicago Law School enacted a new policy, banning internet access from all classrooms. According to this report, it's the first "institution-wide directive of its kind." Unsurprisingly, many students are up in arms. And to them I say here as I said in this entry's title, "shut up." Seriously, shut the fuck up.

I'm going to go old man on you here -- back in my day, when we wanted to surf the net instead of pay attention to lectures, you know what we did? We didn't go to fucking class. It didn't waste our time, didn't waste the professor's time -- win fucking win.

And further, if we did want to waste time in class, there were plenty of ways to do it without the internet. Those of us who had laptops would play lots of Freecell or Hearts or Minesweeper. But we didn't even need the laptops to distract us. In fact, during second year (especially during mother fucking Antitrust), our favorite in-class distraction tended to be crossword puzzles. Sometimes, one of my gang would even think ahead and make copies of the puzzle from the local paper so the whole gaggle of us could whittle our time away filling in words. Crossword puzzles -- just as time-wastey as surfing the net, only kinda smarter. And if you want to go the low-brow route, hell, I still remember a buddy who managed to build the most impressive highlighter tower man has ever laid eyes on.

Point being -- fuck the net, kids. Expand your minds and think creatively. That's what law school's all about in the first place!

Full post as published by Quiz Law on April 21, 2008 (boomark / email).