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Vinny from ?Jersey Shore? Has His Eyes on the Bar. Yes, That Bar.

By Ashby Jones

We try to keep up with pop culture to the degree we can. But sometimes things fall through the cracks, like Lady Gaga and Battlestar Galactica and Harry Potter. We could tell you a total of about eight things total about these three phenomena. (But if you want to talk Friday Night Lights or U2 or why the Yankees are loathsome but Derek Jeter is the greatest, we’re your guy.)

In any event, the comet that is “Jersey Shore” has pretty much passed us by. We know that law students love somebody named “Snooki” (here, here), and there’s been much made of the use of the word “Guido,” but if you ask us otherwise about the show, you’ll get the sound of crickets chirping.

But we have to weigh in on this news: Vinny Guadagnino, one of the show’s characters, has his eyes on law school, according to this US Weekly squib.

Don’t know Vinny? Let us introduce you. According to his bio on MTV’s site:

Vinny is a self-confessed mama’s boy and natural entertainer. He knows how to get a laugh from everyone he meets. Having just turned 21, Vinny has been waiting for this summer his whole life and is ready for a wild time with no boundaries.

A “wild time with no boundaries?” Better get it outta your system now, Vinnie, because law school is a very sedate and stressful time with many, many boundaries.

Vinnie’s school of choice, given his druthers? Harvard or Yale, naturally. “I took the LSAT,” Guadagnino, the 21 year-old SUNY New Paltz grad, told UsMagazine.com recently. “My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well [sic], then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard . . . But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school,” he added. “I had a 3.9 GPA, Latin Honors, but I’m doing this right now. Law school is always on the back burner.”

Full post as published by Law Blog - WSJ.com on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).