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The difference between day and evening law students

Some comments from a thread at The Volokh Conspiracy

Recommendations to law school faculty and deans:
--It is highly unfair that there are students in the first year of the evening program that aren't working. Who do you think has an advantage when one student is taking 10 hours and studying all day, and another is working all day and trying to squeeze in law school reading on the weekends and on the metro? Is there anything that can be done about this?
Evening3L

First, advice to would-be advisors: Evening program students may finish in one more year than their day student counterparts, but that difference amounts to one fewer class a semester. Don't call anyone who works 40 hours, goes to school at night for 11 hours per week, and likely studies 20 more "part time" anything. I guarantee they are working harder at everything than you are.
Gunner

A lot of you guys are, to be honest, full of crap. Everyone talks about the ungodly hours you have to put into law school, but it's just not the case. I just graduated top 10% and all of these horror stories make me laugh...It's not as hard as people make it out to be and everyone knows it (I never took study aids on any vacation)

Use all of the tools available and don't let it drive you nuts. Spolied day students? Spare me. I left a good career for law school and don't regret it, but the idea that we're spoiled is just silly. I didn't work full time, but I did work as much as I could (class schedule got in the way a lot) and didn't have any problems. It's just a matter of learning how to do what you're doing and if you have a career you should be able to pick it up pretty quickly. Hours and hours in the library frantically studying means one of three things: you're dreadfully ineffecient, deeply paranoid, or should reconsider your decision to attend law school.
John Jenkins

What's with all the day student hate?

They're the ones with better grades and LSAT scores (on average). Is there some sort of inferiority complex at play with the night students?

Yeah, I guess it is hard to work and go to school. So by all means, wait until you can go to school full time.

Most day students are surely not there because of "daddy's bigger checkbook". What a stupid remark! They take debt and pay it off. They devote themselves 100% to law study in law school. If this isn't possible and you make sacrifices for that JD, fine. But that is your choice and fault, not mine. My advantages regarding SA jobs and study time are the result of PLANNING MY LIFE CORRECTLY.
Dunstinoo

I think John Jenkins' post, in a nutshell, encapsulates why night students don't particularly care for day students. How can you find it appropriate to flame an advice thread on juggling full time jobs with family and law school because those who have been through it have the audacity to suggest that it will require a lot of good old fashioned work hard?
MikeDE

What are your thoughts?

Full post as published by Random Ramblings About Life and Law School on October 04, 2008 (boomark / email).