[07 Feb 2009|04:48pm] I'm mainly posting this because about 6 months ago I said I would and I just ran across my PMBR stuff. But also because I doubt I'll ever get sick of bitching about law school. Our first year classes are supposedly the most important. If you go the traditional route, your first year grades determine your summer jobs, which you're supposed to hope will eventually become post-school employment. IOW, first year grades are *Really Important*. The bar exam emphasizes these *Important* 1st-year subjects. However, (and here comes my thesis statement), there is almost no correlation between what's tested on the bar exam and what we learn in law school. To exemplify, below are my first year grades and my PMBR pre-test scores ranked best-->worst. Notice the non-existant correlation. 1L Grades torts criminal property contracts constitutional PMBR Pre-test contracts criminal property constiutional torts And just for fun, let's throw in a comparison of how much I had studied for each class in school. Studied constitutional property torts contracts criminal (to be fair, crim was worth fewer credits, so logically one would study less) Silly legal education... Oh well, at least it prepared us for actual practice. (HA!!) 5 comments|post comment

[07 Feb 2009|05:09pm] Isn't the name "Greek Fiesta" just a hysterical name for a restaurant? I mean, unless "fiesta" is a Greek word also. ----------------- I'm torn about how to proceed with my online presence. I prefer facebook to livejournal, but facebook status updates are so fleeting. I've heard it suggested that maybe Orkut will get with the program and we'll all switch over there. Not that I want to migrate again. I just want my damn status updates to be a bit more permanent. Which brings us to Twitter. That just doesn't seem satisfactory. (Plus I haven't quite figured it out yet.) Sigh... life's so hard. I swear I don't have as much free time as this post would have you believe. post comment

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