Law Students

Craptacular

Posted on April 17, 2009
I basically had an interview today for the job that I desperately want after graduation. I took the advice of my supervisor and set up a meeting with the elected DA of my district. I assumed it would be a meeting more about chatting about the experience I had with the office and what I can do to improve my chances of getting a job as Deputy DA either in my current district or elsewhere, and that's exactly how my supervisor, who is very high up herself, told me to approach it...

Conscience

Posted on April 16, 2009
WillibaldoEa posed an interesting question to yesterdays post, how did us jaded law students get rid of the conscience that we had before we became law students? When it comes to school work I'm not sure I really had much of a conscience about preparing for class by the time I hit my junior year of college...

Corporations Part 2

Posted on April 15, 2009
Apparently Mr. Corporations Professor didn't get the memo that I posted a couple of weeks ago.Today he polled our class to see how many of us are graduating 3Ls. 75% of the class raised their hands. We have exactly 2 weeks of class left as 3Ls, which means most of us have completely checked out...

Easter

Posted on April 12, 2009
When you're little you don't really get the point of Easter other than you know there's a bunny that brings eggs and baskets filled with goodies. But by the time you're 25 you get what it's about, and it's not all about the bunny anymore. Funny thing is, my family is not religious, we never went to church growing up, and it's not that my parents are totally opposed to the idea of relgion, it's just that they didn't feel like they wanted to be a part of a church or raise my sister and I in a church...

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Say What?

Posted on April 10, 2009
Every now and then I look up the recent phrases that have brought people to my little useless blog. Because I'd like to try to help out those that stumble upon my musings, here's some useless answers to those searches:I hate law schoolYup I hate it too...

Elevator Etiquette

Posted on April 08, 2009
There are two days a week that I have class at 8:00am (it?s heinous). On those mornings, since I have to be up early anyways, I usually try to get to school around 6:30-7:00am to get some work done (totally heinous). There are usually very few people at Useless Law School at this time of the morning, which means that I can usually just get right on an elevator without waiting and zoom up to the 4th floor where I hide out in my journal office to work for an hour or so...

Got Twitter?

Posted on April 07, 2009
Over the past few weeks I've had multiple blog posts cluttering up my brain, many of them quite lengthy. Problem is, by the time I finally steal a few uninterrupted moments to actually bring those posts to life I'm just too tired to expend the energy necessary to make it happen...

Useless Dicta in Fabulous City

Posted on March 27, 2009
I absolutely love Washington DC!

Public Service Announcement

Posted on March 23, 2009
Dear Mr. Corporations Professor,I'm a 3L who hasn't given a crap about school for over a year, but wouldn't expect you to know this. It's also 1 month, 23 days until graduation, another fact I wouldn't expect you to know. However, I do assume that you know that this is the first Monday back after Spring Break...

Where Does the Story End?

Posted on March 14, 2009
I used to think that law school is a really scary roller coaster with the hundred foot drops, multiple loops, speeds that reach 80 mph that goes both forwards and backwards through the track before finally coming to a screeching halt. That screeching halt is very near, 2 months and 3 days to be precise, and yet somehow I think that law school may have just been the warm up ride for what lies ahead...

Dear Banana Republic

Posted on March 11, 2009
To Whom it May Concern:I realize that fashion has long been driven by what is on the runway, and that the models on the runway are really nothing more than skeletons covered with skin. However, I think that it is crap that in this day and age, size 00 models continue to grace the covers on every major magazine in the country, giving young girls unrealistic expectations about what the acceptable body looks like...

Idols

Posted on March 04, 2009

The Bachelor

Posted on March 03, 2009

Dilemma Update

Posted on March 02, 2009

Dilemma

Posted on March 01, 2009

How to Kill a Headache in 690 Seconds or Less

Posted on February 23, 2009
Take four 200mg ibuprofen tablets, combine that with a half of a can of Starbucks doubleshot enegry + coffee (the one that has guarana and coffee and other goodies in it), sit back on couch while listening to some relaxing music of your choice, about 11 minutes later almost total relief will be seen leaving one able to return to the law review cite and source assignment that one has been avoiding for nearly 2...

Good Riddance!

Posted on February 14, 2009
Last August, about a week before the fall semester began, several of my good law school friends and I started to hear through the grapevine that Totally Useless Dean of [Useless] Law School was being forced by the University to step down. I casually mentioned that we had been hearing these rumors to another classmate who happens to intern at the same place I was interning over the summer...

Recent Email Exchange

Posted on February 07, 2009
-----Original Message-----Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 13:17From: [Useless Dicta]To: Professor IdiotRe: Class on 2/12/09 Dear Professor Idiot, I just wanted to let you know that I won't be able to attend class on Feb 12, the night that we are supposed to do an in class practice performance test...

Missing Law School??

Posted on January 28, 2009
Today while I was hanging out in the journal office having a fun conversation with several friends it finally hit me, there's only 3 months and 19 days left of law school, and instead of being excited, thrilled, and happy about that, I was a little sad about it...

1-20-09

Posted on January 21, 2009
That's a date I have been looking forward to since 11-2-04 when I was bitterly disappointed and irritated that GWB had been elected for a second term. At that time I never thought this day would come. And I certainly didn't think that this day would be the one where the nation's first African American President was sworn in...

Reason #1 Why I F*&%#$^ Hate Law School

Posted on January 21, 2009
Can I please just get some general consensus on my abilities here??? Some professors tell me that my writing academic writing ability is above and beyond that of my peers and my grades in those classes reflect that. Other professors claim my academic writing is below that of my peers and my grades also reflect that...

History in the Making

Posted on January 19, 2009
The news this weekend has been dominated by the upcoming, historic, presidential inauguration of Barack Obama. For some reason, I think that this picture in particular seems to capture the enormity of the moment more than any other image that has come out of the pre-inaugural celebrations thus far:Photo Credit: New York Times...

Thanks Mom

Posted on January 14, 2009
I have 3 classes this semester with a pretty good friend. We've had a few classes together before so this particular friend knows my general routine for law school, which is show up to class, never do the reading, don't stress about not having done the reading all semester, and teach myself the subject towards the end of the semester in the madness of the finals crunch...

Things I Accomplished on my Last First Day of School

Posted on January 13, 2009
The final semester of law school began today for me bright and early at 8:30am. I decided to be brave and take Corporations since I have zero business background and it's going to be on [Useless] state's bar exam. However, I left myself an escape plan by registering for an extra class that I don't need to graduate...

So this is how the end begins

Posted on January 11, 2009
Tomorrow I begin my last semester of law school. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, I'm excited that the light at the end of the long law school tunnel is finally visible. But on the other hand, it's the last first day of classes I might ever have and since all I've done for 19 years is go to school full time, it's a little bittersweet...

Hasta la Vista 2008

Posted on December 31, 2008
Wow how time flies, do you ever get to the point in life where it feels like time doesn't fly by so fast? It's ironic that the work day can drag on and on seemingly forever and yet every new year's eve I'm constantly astonished that another year is already gone...

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2008
I hope that you're all enjoying a much deserved break from law school, jobs, and the other general crazyness that life tends to offer. Here's to delicious cookies, crazy family shananigans, some booze, and the Nintendo Wii that I am 110% sure Santa brought me :) (we don't get to open presents for a few more hours here in [Useless] family home)...

[Useless] Music Roundup

Posted on December 16, 2008
Finals are FINALLY done! More of the postmortem on that will come later, but for now I've decided to do a roundup of the music (some great, some bad, and some excellent guilty pleasures) that I discovered in the depths of my iTunes playlist or impulsed purchased from the iTunes store during the last 2...

Year In Review

Posted on December 14, 2008
Year In ReviewShout out to Nicolle who I?m stealing the idea for this post from :) Look at the posts you?ve made in the past year, and paste the first line of the first post of each month.January: New Year's resolutions aren't really my thing.February: I participated in my first presidential caucus tonight...

Tis the Season for Finals

Posted on December 13, 2008
It's going to be a long weekend of writing in the library this weekend (I would rather be Christmas shopping, skiing, and generally doing festive winter type things, but I digress).I decided to pull out the good ole iTunes Holiday Playlist while working on my paper today, and I just have to say that Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas album NEVER gets old...

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