The Con Law professor thought this would be a good final question: The Supreme Court is good. Discuss.
This lead me to identify several good Con Law related questions for a final exam:
You need to be 18 to vote. You need to be 16 and possess a license to drive. However there are no requirements to have children. Since Brittney Spears may be preggers again (what a fantastic mother she has been so far: infant child in on her lap while driving and her child may have brain damage and definately has a cracked skull because of repeatedly being dropped on his head). And rumor has it, Anna Nicole Smith may be pregant as well. Although there is a fundamental right to procreation, doesn't the government have a compelling interest in sterilization of the stupid? I for one, do not want the "meek [minded] to inherit the earth."
For the geeky among us: The mutant registration program from X-Men. What level of scrutiny would apply for this governmental law?
The Highs and Lows of the 1L Year
Now that we’ve been blogging for an entire four months, and are in the throes of the last of our 1L finals, its about time that the crew here at There’s No Competition brought you a retrospective. When asked what the highs and lows were of the first year of law school, here is how each responded:
Anita
HIGH Point: discovering pink is the new blog, OR finding out that I really can consume 194 oz of Diet Mountain Dew in one criminal law class....
LOW Point: discovering my tolerance has completely bottomed out since i no longer have any time for drinking.
Calculating
HIGH Point: Graduating magna cum laude from law school, passing the bar without studying, and taking my spot as Partner at the largest firm in town – all in a short 11 months.
LOW Point: Waking up and realizing it was all dream, drinking an entire bottle of Jameson and spending the rest of the day worshipping the porcelain god. Hmmm, actually, I guess that’s not really different from any other day in law school.
Classy
HIGH Point: Finding out after fighting a traffic ticket that people were intimidated by me
LOW Point: Finding out that was NOT something cool
Lance
HIGH Point: Getting a Summer Associate position
LOW Point: still not being paid enough for my skillz
Larceny
HIGH Point: Learning that the place in which I will be working this summer has unlimited Westlaw access, which means I can defer learning how to research any other way for at least another year. Sweet, addictive, manipulative Westlaw, together again...
LOW Point: The day that every bitch here found out together that we were having Prof. Intense Socratic Method for Property. (Later she would be known as Prof. Crazy Aunt - she wasn't that bad, just a little nutty - in a good way)
John Roberts
HIGH Point: Making Sandra Gay laugh so hard during Civ Pro she had to leave the room.
LOW Point: Getting so distracted by chat in Con Law that I forgot I had my hand up, leaving me with nothing to say when I got called on.
Sandra Gay
HIGH Point: Chatting online with some of the world’s funniest people.
LOW Point: (while chatting furiously and not paying attention in class – please note: I was not paying attention AT ALL, so I am not positive about the exact question the Professor asked, but this is the close version recounted to me by a classmate….)
Prof: “So the Jehovah’s Witnesses are an example of a group of people who refuse medical t treatment in terms of blood transfusions and the like. Anyone know of any other religious group that adheres to similar principles?”
Me: (raised my hand, was called on) “I hear the Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t do blood
transfusions.”
Scalito
HIGH Point: The 13 hour Civ Pro marathon in October which brought our study group closer than I ever expected. Nothing like pressure and a common enemy to bring a bunch of type A personalities together.
LOW Point: Being told by our ConLaw professor that we should reconsider our decision to pursue law. I guess that was his Kingsfield moment – glad we could accommodate him.
There appears to be a pattern here: not one of us actually has something that is directly related to learning the law. Does that tell you anything about our experience in law school?
Anita
HIGH Point: discovering pink is the new blog, OR finding out that I really can consume 194 oz of Diet Mountain Dew in one criminal law class....
LOW Point: discovering my tolerance has completely bottomed out since i no longer have any time for drinking.
Calculating
HIGH Point: Graduating magna cum laude from law school, passing the bar without studying, and taking my spot as Partner at the largest firm in town – all in a short 11 months.
LOW Point: Waking up and realizing it was all dream, drinking an entire bottle of Jameson and spending the rest of the day worshipping the porcelain god. Hmmm, actually, I guess that’s not really different from any other day in law school.
Classy
HIGH Point: Finding out after fighting a traffic ticket that people were intimidated by me
LOW Point: Finding out that was NOT something cool
Lance
HIGH Point: Getting a Summer Associate position
LOW Point: still not being paid enough for my skillz
Larceny
HIGH Point: Learning that the place in which I will be working this summer has unlimited Westlaw access, which means I can defer learning how to research any other way for at least another year. Sweet, addictive, manipulative Westlaw, together again...
LOW Point: The day that every bitch here found out together that we were having Prof. Intense Socratic Method for Property. (Later she would be known as Prof. Crazy Aunt - she wasn't that bad, just a little nutty - in a good way)
John Roberts
HIGH Point: Making Sandra Gay laugh so hard during Civ Pro she had to leave the room.
LOW Point: Getting so distracted by chat in Con Law that I forgot I had my hand up, leaving me with nothing to say when I got called on.
Sandra Gay
HIGH Point: Chatting online with some of the world’s funniest people.
LOW Point: (while chatting furiously and not paying attention in class – please note: I was not paying attention AT ALL, so I am not positive about the exact question the Professor asked, but this is the close version recounted to me by a classmate….)
Prof: “So the Jehovah’s Witnesses are an example of a group of people who refuse medical t treatment in terms of blood transfusions and the like. Anyone know of any other religious group that adheres to similar principles?”
Me: (raised my hand, was called on) “I hear the Jehovah’s Witnesses don’t do blood
transfusions.”
Scalito
HIGH Point: The 13 hour Civ Pro marathon in October which brought our study group closer than I ever expected. Nothing like pressure and a common enemy to bring a bunch of type A personalities together.
LOW Point: Being told by our ConLaw professor that we should reconsider our decision to pursue law. I guess that was his Kingsfield moment – glad we could accommodate him.
There appears to be a pattern here: not one of us actually has something that is directly related to learning the law. Does that tell you anything about our experience in law school?
You Know That
Law Students are spending too much time at school when you go into the bathroom and discover that someone shaved their pubic hair.
Really. That's disgusting. We can excuse the lack of showering and the obviously slept in clothes, but when you shave your pubes in the school bathroom, that's just gross. I don't care that the library is open 24/7. GO HOME!
Really. That's disgusting. We can excuse the lack of showering and the obviously slept in clothes, but when you shave your pubes in the school bathroom, that's just gross. I don't care that the library is open 24/7. GO HOME!
Yes, but which BFF's are they?
I think Mike over at Barely Legal Blog just wrote an entire blog about Class Bitch and Calculating Bitch.
See, both Classy and Calculating are always together. Both are married, and both are overachievers. Also, they have the same real name. In fact, during a drunken moment, Class Bitch said to Calculating, "I can't get mad at you, that would be like being mad at myself. Because we have the same name." Yup.
So which version of BFF's are they? Married BFF's? Nerdy BFF's? (as we see from Class's outlining habits in the previous post, as well as Calculating's who are probably even worse) They would be Party Girls if there wasn't all this studying involved. So, any votes?
Let it be known however, that we love them both just the same because of all of it!
See, both Classy and Calculating are always together. Both are married, and both are overachievers. Also, they have the same real name. In fact, during a drunken moment, Class Bitch said to Calculating, "I can't get mad at you, that would be like being mad at myself. Because we have the same name." Yup.
So which version of BFF's are they? Married BFF's? Nerdy BFF's? (as we see from Class's outlining habits in the previous post, as well as Calculating's who are probably even worse) They would be Party Girls if there wasn't all this studying involved. So, any votes?
Let it be known however, that we love them both just the same because of all of it!
How Many...
Law Students does it take to break the three-hole punch after sticking an entire 23 page outline in there at once?
Just one: Class Bitch.
Smart. Real Smart. Either make a shorter outline or try punching less then 15 pages at a time.
Just one: Class Bitch.
Smart. Real Smart. Either make a shorter outline or try punching less then 15 pages at a time.