Going To Law School

no.

This is like when you run a marathon, and the rush of endorphins that come from the pain having stopped make you feel so good that you erroneously assume it was the running itself that produced this feeling, and suddenly you think, "you know, long distance running is rather good isn't it?" Conveniently forgetting that your thoughts two minutes prior were "fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit..."

have you considered an MPA degree? their utility is more debatable, but they might be more on point for thinktank work. in that world, it helps to specialize narrowly, i would imagine.

Are you asking if you can work 60-65 hours a week AND go to law school? Then no, definitelty. Are you asking if 60-65 hours is enough time to put in AT law school per week, I would say it's more than enough. I went to a decent law school, an I would say I averaged about 40 hours a week. You learn to be more efficient as you go. The first year you spend more time, and of course there are times during the semester when you really have to ramp up, but generally, I found that 40-50 hours was plenty. But this was an American law school. ( I also knew people that did night school and worked 50 hours a week and seemed OK, but I wouldn't choose to do that).

My advice to anyone thinking about going to law school: If you are going because you want to be a lawyer, then definitely do it. If you are just going because you are a smart person, and you want a good career, don't go. For people that don't have a strong desire to actually BE a lawyer, I've found that law school, and, even more so, practicing law, are a miserable experience.

"I seem to have missed this, so are you interested in becoming a lawyer, Tim? I get this image of you arguing cases via a combination of grime white labels and references to Baudrillard. "

Yeah I haven't really decided yet. Since the beginning of the year I've been working about two and a half days a week in a a managerial paralagal position at a large plaintiff law firm, and this partial step towards, like, a real job has made me more relaxed about doing further postgrad study (in humanities) and just seeing what happens.

I'm not adverse to law, but it's hard to see myself doing it all the time I guess.

It scared me to realise recently that I was in my sixth year of uni - which I went to straight from school. I've been studying forever!

Closed book, that's way harsh. Otherwise, yeah, 3 hours & 100% is where it's at.

Best of luck Gem!! Admin's a bit of a bitch isn't it? Privative clauses, jurisdictional error, procedural fairness, improper purposes...

Yeah I meant 60/65 of working on law stuff! That's a big relief, thanks.

Lawyers are helpful on this thread!

I can of course gloat because I've finished all my exams but I might get a kick in the rear, near the end of summer if I find out I failed my evidence exam, studying for I forewent, in order to watch "love & death" with alba, ally c, RJG, & beer set about studiously and efficiently.

I think this is the way it's supposed to be - it's almost always gonna be a bit of a trivial technical point anyway yeah?

Glad it all went okay - snatch an hour to yourself tonight!

i guess i'm taking the exam in early october so i still don't know how smart i am. i also pretty much hate writing application essays.

i'm getting a very good recommendation from a former philosophy professor and she said i MUST apply to NYU. i tried telling her i am not smart enough but she said that's garbage and girls always say they aren't smart enough. hmm ok i think i will make it a mega-reach. oh i also don't have 37k a year or whatever.

i already do that.

Let's see some results.

Anyway, so I've been reading for her, and it's been interesting, since I do very well at it -- I mean I'm not entirely sure, since she gets double time because she has to hear it instead of read it, and I keep forgetting that I'd have to work everything out twice as fast. Still, the fact that I'd probably do very well on the test makes me think I should take the test -- and yet I have no interest in going to law school.

Doing logic games when you have almost no eyesight and can't read your diagrams reliably is no fun at all.