Law Students

10 Things I Wish I Knew About Berkeley & Boalt

By Patrick

• Whether the ominous looking paint marks in the courtyard will turn into jackhammers, heavy equipment, and scurrying dudes in hardhats and suspenders before, during, or after my final exams
• What is being built at Oxford and Allston, and how tall it will be when it is done
• Whether I will, or will not, be caught if I blow through fastrak on my motorcycle, and whether the experiment is worth four bucks and a brief journey to the paying side of the legal system
• What the reading room in the library would feel like if the north wall were anything other than coldly blank and barren
• B0b Berr*ng's range of visual perception, in feet, and whether he navigates by sonar
• The location of a green dry cleaner in Berkeley
• The name of the monkey and the location of the hat that determines grades, and whether said monkey wears a fez and carries a watch
• What Robert J. Birgeneau does when he's not being pleased to announce that he is sending me another email on behalf of someone else
• How many paper cups Zeb customers consume each day
• The distinction, if any, between "pleaded" and "pled"
  

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).