Law Students

Applauding Your Professor

By Casebook Sherpa

Law school introduced me to a tradition that I’ve come to really enjoy – applauding your professor at the end of a semester. This was not part of my undergraduate experience. But as a form of recognizing that a professor has spent a semester dropping some serious knowledge on our asses and/or as a means to recognize our endurance of said dropping, it simply can’t be beat. When a professor does not receive the applause (which has happened at least once in my experience… and deservedly so, if you ask me) it is all the more striking.

Of course, one of my favorite law school traditions is followed closely by my least – exam preparation. Another concept that was almost completely missing from my undergraduate experience, yet one that I’ve come to begrudgingly respect.

This sequence from The Paper Chase depicts both the relief expressed through the applause and the stress that sets in following it…

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Full post as published by Fight The Hypo on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).