I'm glad I never visited a law school before (or even after) applying. I think it might have scared me away. :) We have a visitor in Property (right now) and her eyes are totally glazed over. The prof. has this giant flow chart of lease assignments and transfers and subleases, we're in an echoey room, he calls on people for a full hour, and he's from New York and talks at light speed. I imagine part of the reason they encourage people to visit is to weed some of them out.
Why do people not listen to the Prof. at the beginning of class - before she's picked on someone yet? Dude in front of me is surfing the internet. Prof. talks for a minute and then picks Dude from her little seating chart. Not having been paying any attendion . . .
Dude: "Can you repeat the question?"
Prof: "I haven't asked a question yet. That doesn't bode well."
god people.
The guys (I think they're guys, anyway) who wrote my contracts book are quite entertaining at times. They write like I would write if I were doing something so technical . . . whenever possible they become goofy. Some examples:
(A footnote) 9. At the risk of throwing you into the depths of existential despair, we mention in passing one scholar who argued that the entire framework of contract liability - whether it be based on neocalssical contract principles or tort law principles, consideration or promissory estoppel, promise or reliance - should be discarded.
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(In discussing why you won't be forced to keep a promise that was made in order to get someone to do something they had to do anyway) Imagine, for instance, that your teenage sone Seth Slob contracted to clean his room on a weekly basis for the princely allowance of five dollars. It is now the last day of the week, your boss is coming over to dinner, and Seth's room in in shamles. Seth has languished on the couch all day and pleads exhaustion. You promise him an additional ten dollars if he folows through and actually does clean his room. Seth immediately jumps to his feet and soon his room sparkles. *** Your promise to pay him and additional ten dollars, since it was given in exchange for that legal nullity, would be unenforceable as a contractural obligation. *** On the other hand, if you promised Seth an additional ten dollars if he stopped whining and actually cleaned his room and he complied, the story would be different. The detriment of foregoing the cherished right to whine could be sufficient to provide consideration for your promise, rendering it fully enforceable.
Cheney and Bush are doing a "blast democrats" tour, and their main trick is as follows:
"Lots of those sleazy Democrats who are criticizing the war VOTED for it in October 2002!"
Okay. In October of 2002 the White House told us that the CIA had informed them of WEAPONS of MASS DESTRUCTION. And we believed you, because you are the the WHITE HOUSE. Clearly our mistake. From here on out we will just assume that you are lying and vote accordingly.
Say Deb tells Nick that his house has an unfixable gas leak and that he should move. Afraid of being gassed to death in his sleep, he moves to a rather undesireable part of town where he is guaranteed safety from rampant gas leaks. A year later he finds out that Deb was lying because her friend wanted to buy his house. Nick demands his house back, and Deb goes fucking NUTS because Nick DECDED to move and once you decide there is no going back - in fact even *thinking* about going back makes Nick slime, nevermind that he moved based on a lie Deb told him about a dangeous gas leak.
My alarm/radio insists on broadcasting even when it's not on. Apparently my roommate's computer does something similar. I assume we must be right under a radio tower or something (the cat just farted in my face). Anyhow, it's off, it only comes on when it's whatever time I set it to come on, yet I can *always* hear it. I have it set on a semi-random station, so I don't always recognize the songs, but sometimes I do. And I'm one of those people who can't sleep, study, or think with music in the background. Granted, I do manage to fall asleep with this f*cking thing whispering at me every night, but it doesn't help. How the hell do I fix this? Get a new alarm? Meh. I can't handle the ones that go BEEP!! BEEP!! BEEP!!. Sets my whole day off to a bad start.
If Condi and Hillary get their respective nods to be Presidential candidates in 2008, are we going to have our first glimpse of a true third party?
Karalyg03: I'm stressed.
FishieT: School?
Karalyg03: yeah
FishieT: :-(
FishieT: yeah, first year will do that to you
FishieT: any class in particular?
Karalyg03: contracts
FishieT: I'm sorry
Karalyg03: and con law
Karalyg03: and civ pro
Karalyg03: hehe
FishieT: haha
FishieT: well civ pro is given
FishieT: NO one gets it
FishieT: ;-)
Karalyg03: yeah, and our prof is totally irradic
Karalyg03: eratic?
Karalyg03: can't spell anymore
FishieT: that's okay
FishieT: you don't have to know how spell now
FishieT: just keep studying - trust me, it will come together
FishieT: it's a bitch
FishieT: b/c you haven't taken a final
FishieT: and you don't know what's coming
FishieT: but neither does anyone else
Karalyg03: it's not even that I don't understand the material, it's that they expect us to just memorize so much fucking stuff
FishieT: i know
FishieT: it's a LOT
FishieT: the volume is enormous, I know
Karalyg03: why can't they give fuckiing miderms
FishieT: you just have to stuff as much in your brain as you can
Karalyg03: grr
FishieT: i know, it sucks
FishieT: do you have old exams?
Karalyg03: yeah, but I don't even want to look at them. they'll just freak me out.
Karalyg03: I will, but not yet
FishieT: yeah, wait until you've studdied some
FishieT: it's a waste to look at them now
Karalyg03: I mean, I did a smaple for K and con law.
Karalyg03: but our k prof told us she might not give them back for another month, and I got con law back with almost zero comments
Karalyg03: and of course she posts some sample answer and you know the jackass who wrote it took more than an hour and used his notes. of course mine sucked in comparison.
Karalyg03: and it's really really rainy and dark and I miss my boyfriend and I need new meds and I have horrible heartburn and I want to crawl under a rock and die
FishieT: are all your exams closed book?
FishieT: okay, no rocks, no death
FishieT: can you call nick?
Karalyg03: k is open book, civ pro we get the frcp, but the others are clsoed
Karalyg03: dying isn't necessary, I suppose, I could jsut hibernate through winter
Karalyg03: and finals
FishieT: hiberation sounds good
Karalyg03: nick is playing whirlyball. and I'm taking the train up for the weekend to do a puzzle event so my only time to edit this fucking memo is on the train.
Karalyg03: and I'm kind of pissed because I turned in an outline of the memo with my cases outlined and she wrote "good use of strong research", when really she meant "these cases suck and you've bitten off more than necessary"
Karalyg03: wtf
Karalyg03: so I write a 10 fucking page memo and now I'm going to just cut probably 3 of it and rewrite
Karalyg03: grr grr grr
Ha, he was joking around before class about how he always checks out in contracts and he was just goofing around on his notebook laptop while our teacher was setting up a hypothetical and then BAM she calls on him. He's totally dumbfounded. He said "uh . . . could you rephrase the question?". Of course now, 5 minutes later, he has survived and we're all laughing about the soup nazi.