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Date: February 21st, 2005 7:25 PM Author: pontificating up-to-no-good pistol locus http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/prelaw/index.php/topic,25190.msg366655.html#msg366655
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Date: February 21st, 2005 7:27 PM Author: Brass Keepsake Machete Quadroon What do you care, cocksmoker? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179474) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 7:58 PM Author: fragrant transparent patrolman I hope all these tools end up in the bottom 10%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179707) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:03 PM Author: Concupiscible Theater The funniest thing about that site is the avatars. Some people will post pics of themselves, or their dogs, or their infants. It's a fucking hoot, by god. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179739) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:04 PM Author: mahogany bespoke property athletic conference yeh i prefer anonymous racist assholes like lsat2009 who use their anonymity to really add to the discussion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179753) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:17 PM Author: Concupiscible Theater Me too. Twins! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179859) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:21 PM Author: Underhanded Self-centered Azn Subject: Don't worry. Santa Claus checks his list, and checks it twice.
All year long he is watching over. |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:38 PM Author: spectacular box office persian check out this dude, he's from LSD
http://ragebox.com/junkyard/lion.wmv |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:33 PM Author: Supple red university blood rage Holy Fuck!!!! I can't believe I just watched that. I think I've gone fucking blind! Oh Shit!!! *continuously spews vomit* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183890) |
Date: February 21st, 2005 8:23 PM Author: mind-boggling chartreuse genital piercing That chick with the shitty numbers who got into YLS looks pretty hot, even though, or maybe b/c, she has Yoda on her shoulders. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179892) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:24 PM Author: razzle depressive Lexy is better looking and has a lower LSAT. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179907) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:26 PM Author: mind-boggling chartreuse genital piercing I haven't seen her pic, but the girl from LSD is hot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179920) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:27 PM Author: razzle depressive I think you're just horny because of the banana. She looks pretty ordinary to me. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179924) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:31 PM Author: mind-boggling chartreuse genital piercing And b/c she's mid eastern and has nice sized tits for a skinny girl. Of course, her face could deceive her fat body, but I will jerk off to my imaginative composite of her thin body with large tits on top of me as I enter her anus after treating her to dinner at New Haven's finest hamburger joint. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179957) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:38 PM Author: Provocative walnut turdskin boistinker STOP STOP!! Pookie's jew ass is a virgin hole that can only be violated by a nice jew boy from temple!! Wait until she gets married and her goy husband beats her until she submits to fellatio....then we can all call dibs on her LSD jew virgin anus. Until then, dream of virgin anus...... (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180026) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 5:40 AM Author: Pearl whorehouse 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183032) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:05 PM Author: charismatic flesh circlehead tanning salon i do indeed have a lower lsat. i'm the pied piper of law-school-applying douches, though. remember? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183759) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:10 PM Author: drab awkward factory reset button *high five* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183771) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 5:16 PM Author: Violet meetinghouse hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185552) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 5:18 PM Author: charismatic flesh circlehead tanning salon i know, right? lucky for me! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185565) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 5:44 PM Author: Violet meetinghouse hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185746) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 5:55 PM Author: razzle depressive "i'm the pied piper of law-school-applying douches"
That's not a quote from me; but, I wouldn't strongly disagree. You brought a cadre of LSD douches here. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 6:01 PM Author: Violet meetinghouse hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185859) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 6:09 PM Author: charismatic flesh circlehead tanning salon damn, i wasn't going for "almost." i'll have to keep working on it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185926) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 6:32 PM Author: Violet meetinghouse hunting ground (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2186129) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:26 PM Author: Bearded Coiffed Piazza Mad Cow Disease I'd pork Pookie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179921) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:29 PM Author: buck-toothed market karate Unfortunately, "chick with the shitty numbers who got into YLS" doesn't narrow the field like it used to. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179946) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:37 PM Author: razzle depressive So true. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180014) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:08 PM Author: high-end sapphire hominid she's eating a banana cock (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183768) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:23 PM Author: razzle depressive For the next six months I intend to have fun, before the boring shit starts. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179896) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:26 PM Author: stubborn clear immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179922) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:27 PM Author: razzle depressive I've got to disagree. We're definitely tougher here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179933) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:31 PM Author: stubborn clear immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179958) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:32 PM Author: White twinkling uncleanness Yeah, every year a bunch of people say PLS methods aren't worth it and every year a bunch of people go ahead and do extensive prep anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179973) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:33 PM Author: mind-boggling chartreuse genital piercing If it wasn't for PLS I would have never made a posting to find the study group that guided me to LR at Cooley, and allowed me the free time to meet my life partner at the local kinkos. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2179979) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:38 PM Author: Adventurous Anal National "don't even have the balls to post"
That's funny, I always thought that posting things on an anonymous message board was the most cowardly activity around. |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:39 PM Author: stubborn clear immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180034) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:45 PM Author: Adventurous Anal National What's cowardly about it? The fact that one chooses to be anonymous instead of using one's real name. The "fear" of being "outed"
It's completely anonymous, do you really think that all of the assholes on here are like this in real life? No chance in hell. Of course they'll tell you they are, lest their online ego be deflated.
You don't need to be brave to say things anonymously, including your lsat and gpa numbers.
What does it mean when you post lsat and gpa numbers anonymously? Why would that require "balls"? That just doesn't make any sense. |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:48 PM Author: stubborn clear immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180113) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:53 PM Author: Adventurous Anal National Right. So you only see two options: being completely anonymous, or telling everyone your "address, etc." That makes sense, because when you're not anonymous in real life, you tell everyone your "address, etc." Pointless rhetoric...
And why would anyone with even one real life friend care if they were called "TTT" on an anonymous website?
Hey, I have a 2.8 and a 142! I'm going to cooley in august. Aren't I such a TTT loser?
Who cares?
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:53 PM Author: stubborn clear immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180166) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:54 PM Author: Adventurous Anal National Oh. I thought your point was that you needed balls in order to have the courage to post your lsat and gpa numbers.. which would imply that you were one of the people who cared about being called names online. My mistake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180177) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:54 PM Author: glittery shitlib office Let's not fight, brothers. We need solidarity to win against LSD. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180176) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:55 PM Author: Adventurous Anal National We're not fighting, we're just being needlessly argumentative for fun (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180179) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 7:03 AM Author: Sticky Primrose Water Buffalo Scourge Upon The Earth Not posting is cowardly in that people must open themselves to possible insult when they post. Particularly so on a board like this, where the insults fly fast and furious and are awarded points on a 120-180 scale by gleeful onlookers.
The cowardly thing is to never say anything at all, as then there is no chance you will be insulted, and no chance your arguments will be systematically ripped to shreds by someone who actually knows what he's (or she's) talking about. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 3:33 PM Author: Adventurous Anal National Things are only cowardly if they result from fear
You are ASSUMING that people who don't post, fail to do so because of fear. That is stupid. You are assuming that these people are as much of a loser as you are, and that they would CARE if their pseudonym was "insulted" online. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 5:30 PM Author: Motley disrespectful orchestra pit hmm... i dont think its the pseudonym that feels the insult, its the thought expressed by the author. if you respond to my post by calling me a moron, you're not insulting 'kombucha' which is really just a mushroom to both you and i, but you're insulting my logic.. regardless of the anonymity 'kombucha' provides me, my thought process is sensitive to insult. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185666) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:32 PM Author: fragrant transparent patrolman "ilsox7
Re: Primer Methods (for prepping) « Reply #27 on: Yesterday at 09:25:41 PM » Quote from: happycat on Yesterday at 09:23:09 PM How many hours per day over the next four or five months will you have to prep to get through BBL for all 1L courses? Just curious about how much time you feel will be enough/required to do a good job accomplishing your prepping goals?
I'm honestly not sure. I figure I will do al ittle here and there for now, until the whole admissions process is over."
Shouldn't this toolbox make sure he gets into law school first? Although I suppose reading the E&Es will help him get into Billybob's School for Paralegals if he gets rejected from every law school.
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:35 PM Author: fragrant transparent patrolman "It's taken me about 4 days to get a 1/5 of the way through the Torts EE book... It's fun stuff and I find it quite enjoyable. I am salivating over the CivPro book, which may be a nerdy thing to say, but I stand by it, dammit!"
What a fucking douche. |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:47 PM Author: Pale trip rigpig unreal (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180108) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:49 PM Author: glittery shitlib office Am I mean because the fact that most of them are going to TTT's make me smile? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180116) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:46 PM Author: Henna masturbator omg. People are outlining? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180099) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:49 PM Author: Pale trip rigpig how is that even possible?!
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:51 PM Author: Henna masturbator The E&E books are really not even outline-structured. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180138) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:54 PM Author: Pale trip rigpig And how do they know what will be covered?! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180169) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 9:09 PM Author: fragrant transparent patrolman Bingo. They also don't know that application, not memorization, is what gets good grades. Plus, once they learn the E&E version of the law, they'll have a hard time unlearning it and learning what the prof wants them to know instead. What a bunch of morons. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180298) |
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Date: February 21st, 2005 8:54 PM Author: stubborn clear immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2180175) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 7:38 AM Author: translucent vigorous death wish dopamine "Quote from: eva on Yesterday at 02:00:37 AM you all should really take it easy before you start law school. blindly outlining a course is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of..."
The response:
"Yes, yes, yes. This is not the thread for the "let's smoke pot and take it easy" crowd. Please start your own thread. Also, no one here is suggesting "outlining a course" in the sense of outlining a class while reading cases, discussing in class, etc. If that's what you think, you really have no idea what we're talking about, which makes your own post quite ridiculous." |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 7:39 AM Author: translucent vigorous death wish dopamine
Re: Primer Methods (for prepping) « Reply #42 on: Today at 12:16:33 AM »
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quote from: boalt06 on Yesterday at 11:54:29 PM My friend just sent me the link to this discussion for a good laugh. But than i realized this discussion is serious. you'll never learn the black letter law, not even in law school; and trying to remember it all is pointless, especially before you're even in school. don't waste your time buying the commercial outlines; enjoy your freedom now; you have three years of law school to become an annoying uptight overachiever that everyones hates (if thats what you want to do; and people WILL hate you). you all need to chill the #@!* out.
The same guy as in the quote above responds"
"As has been stated before, i believe there is a "just chill and smoke pot all summer, heck! - do it all 1L!" thread available somewhere for you to participate in.
And on a side note - all through my Comp Sci degree at UT i heard the continual chatter of the 'party crowd' who frowned upon those who worked their asses off, frowned upon those who raised their hand and asked questions in class, frowned upon those who did the extra assignments in order to learn more about the subject.
Now, we diligent students smile upon them as they answer phones in their McTech-Support jobs while the rest of us became software engineers. Every discipline has the same tired dynamic. The best solution is to let each crowd pursue its own interests as it sees fit.
You won't see me chiming in on the "lets' chill and smoke pot all summer" thread. If that's what they want to do, that's completely fine with me. Far be it for me to intrude and tell them they've got it all wrong.
We've made our decision. This thread is for refining our prep plans. Sincerely - good luck to you in your choice. " |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 8:28 AM Author: racy spruce bawdyhouse uh, oh. i don't smoke pot, and i wasn't planning on extensively prepping either. i don't fit in either group, am i screwed for law school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183108) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 8:41 AM Author: translucent vigorous death wish dopamine "Now, we diligent students smile upon them as they answer phones in their McTech-Support jobs while the rest of us became software engineers."
lol |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 8:48 AM Author: Insane stage jap Comp Sci people are not engineers.
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 8:50 AM Author: translucent vigorous death wish dopamine yeah I was thinking that too...i thought pretty much only engineering people become engineers ? I wouldnt know though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183120) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 9:05 AM Author: Sticky Primrose Water Buffalo Scourge Upon The Earth This is correct.
Also, real computer science classes don't prepare you for developer jobs. They teach computer science -- the fundamentals and the underlying theories -- and don't really teach application.
I saw little correlation between grades and actual programming ability. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 9:23 AM Author: frum jewess police squad If RuskieGirl were still around this seems like the type of thread she would post on. Making some lame comment, saying how she is doing great at Boalt inspite of her low LSAT. Probably because she spent the summer prepping combined with the fact that everyone gets at least a P. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183146) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 9:27 AM Author: aromatic bisexual round eye Christ I wish I could fast forward a year and see how this plan works out. The OP is so self-assured! He fits a pretty classic WUSTL profile - complete blindness as to your abilities relative to those of others.
Also Big Tex is quite a douche. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:01 PM Author: charismatic flesh circlehead tanning salon "This thread has got me salivating at the mouth to begin my summer prep in earnest." -bigtex
i'd rather not know why he had to specify "at the mouth" |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:04 PM Author: Bronze Pungent Point Ratface ick! ;) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183752) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:11 PM Author: translucent vigorous death wish dopamine icky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183776) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:13 PM Author: Chocolate Mad-dog Skullcap lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183781) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 2:02 PM Author: Violet meetinghouse hunting ground bigtex is a douche (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2184039) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 10:30 PM Author: spectacular box office persian BIGTEX is a BIG douche. everything is bigger in TX, even the douche. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2188054) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:07 PM Author: high-end sapphire hominid gay extreme gunners (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2183762) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 1:55 PM Author: soul-stirring goal in life reading party Re: Primer Methods (for prepping) « Reply #58 on: Today at 01:26:11 AM »
Despite ilsox's request at the beginning, this thread has turned into a "prep v chill" debate. And there is a source of many of those who have turned it into one:
http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&mc=42&forum_id=2
Notice those who have the strongest words are also mostly new LSD members."
Oh oh. They don't like us anymore... ;) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 2:10 PM Author: floppy cruel-hearted messiness step-uncle's house This Kilgore guy is surely one of us:
"Nice try though, that's the kind of deductive reasoning that separates a 157 from, say a 155."
http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/prelaw/index.php/topic,25190.msg374518.html#msg374518
Bravo, Kilgore. 180. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 2:12 PM Author: rough-skinned shrine Please tell me his full moniker is Kilgore Trout (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2184113) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 2:20 PM Author: glittery shitlib office Haha. PWN3D! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2184187) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 2:34 PM Author: Brass Keepsake Machete Quadroon The comments above are pretty fucking stupid, IMHO. While it is not necessary to outline before 1L (I don't even outline now), how the fuck could it hurt? The E&E's, especially torts, are pretty fucking necessary for the 1L classes (except Property, that book blows).
The comment above, "they won't even know what the prof will cover" is really retarded. I mean, it's torts for Christ's sake! The same shit is covered in every torts class in every law school across the country - intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability. Know that shit and you're golden. Torts is probably the most black-letter subject around.
Same thing with the other 1L classes. I mean, what do you cover in Civ Pro - personal/subject matter jurisdication, choice of law, complex litigation, etc. All that shit is in Glannon. Anything that the prof covers that isn't in Glannon can be learned throughout the semester, after one has already learned all the rest of the semester's material.
Furthermore, the E&E's are all about analysis. That's why they have the examples and the explanations, so the student can practice legal analysis. They are not merely outlines of the black-letter rules (and besides, anyone who says memorization of the black-letter is not crucial is a fucking moron. Try getting good grades writing strictly about policy).
By learning the BLL/legal analysis up front, the semester is just review and orientation. Instead of struggling the first few weeks, these people will be ahead of the game. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 2:49 PM Author: floppy cruel-hearted messiness step-uncle's house "The same shit is covered in every torts class in every law school across the country - intentional torts, negligence, and strict liability."
See that? Right there? Not true.
"The E&E's, especially torts, are pretty fucking necessary for the 1L classes (except Property, that book blows)."
That one? Too? Also not true.
The rest of your points range from arguable to silly, but those two are just misstatements of fact. Not every torts class covers intentional torts, and if E&Es were "pretty fucking necessary" it would be unusual for people to get As without using them. In fact, many, many people get As without ever opening an E&E. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 2:55 PM Author: Brass Keepsake Machete Quadroon "Not every torts class covers intentional torts, and if E&Es were "pretty fucking necessary" it would be unusual for people to get As without using them. In fact, many, many people get As without ever opening an E&E."
Let's not get into a John Marshall discussion about the definition of the word necessary here. i am sure there are people who get A's w/out using Gilbert's either, but they are necessary as well.
Also, it doesn't matter that some profs. don't cover intentional torts, but I am sure the vast, vast majority of them do.
The fact still remains that torts is probably the most black-letter subject around, and even if intentional torts aren't covered (which I'd say is so unlikely that that it's almost moot), it can't hurt to know them...
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 3:01 PM Author: floppy cruel-hearted messiness step-uncle's house So by "necessary" you mean "possibly somewhat helpful for some people"? I mean, that's not even close to the meaning of the word "necessary." Certainly I did just fine in all my 1L classes without either Gilbert's or E&E (or any other supplements). A lot of the best students on this board will probably say the same thing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2184478) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 3:10 PM Author: Brass Keepsake Machete Quadroon "Certainly I did just fine in all my 1L classes without either Gilbert's or E&E (or any other supplements). A lot of the best students on this board will probably say the same thing."
Well, you're just speculating, and even if that were true, that means nothing. The sample size of 'good students' on this board is incredibly low when compare to the amount of top students at law schools across the country. I mean, let's be realistic - off the top of my head, I can only think of you and Sexpert as people on this board who are generally respected as being successful law students. To my knowledge, you are the only Federal clerk who posts (at least the only one who does so somewhat regularly).
"So by 'necessary' you mean 'possibly somewhat helpful for some people'?"
No, I mean that it is incredibly likely that these study aids would be helpful. Although *you* did well without them, does that mean that most other people will too? Certainly not. Furthermore, it doesn't even mean that you wouldn't have found them helpful, had you used them. There is a reason that the commercial study aid industry is huge, and it's not just because law students are suckers.
The basic point of the post is that there are certain topics that will be covered in the vast majority of 1st year classes at the vast majority of law schools across the country. Even if it is conceded that Int. torts might not be covered (which, again, I would say is highly unlikely), it is a given that negligence will be covered. Everyone will learn about prox. cause, the reasonable person, B<PL, etc. everyone reads Palsgraf and Carrol Towing, just as everyone reads carbolic Smoke Ball and the case of the two ships Peerless in K's. While there may be minor variations in the curriculum, the major topics are static. The variations can be learned during the semester.
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 4:07 PM Author: amethyst gay wizard to add my two cents:
i think the vast majority of commercial study aids are objectively superflous at best, however, more likely even hurtful, because you don't concentrate on what the class and professor were all about. it is by far more important, imho, to pay attention in class and do the reading assignments with an alert brain, not for the sake of reading alone.
accordingly, i didn't use a single one and rank in the top 5% at CCN. (this is not for the sake of bragging, but because you claimed rk and sexpert were strange animals around here... moreover, i admit that this is only 1L grades, so this might change later).
that being said, there might be people who find them helpful, be it because of the actual content, be it because they get a (wrong?) sense of security out of the fact that they are doing something most people seem to do. if they like it like that, fine. is it objectively necessary or even good advice? no.
"There is a reason that the commercial study aid industry is huge, and it's not just because law students are suckers."
no, it's because many law students are afraid and psyching out as 0Ls already.
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 4:09 PM Author: floppy cruel-hearted messiness step-uncle's house Agree completely. It seems to me that people who use study aids finish in the middle of the class; those who do really well prefer to just read the material and actually think about it for themselves.
That said, I started using supplements 2L and 3L year. They did not noticeably change how I prepared for exams, or my grades. |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 4:16 PM Author: Adventurous Anal National What spurred the change? What did you find useful about the supplements? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185058) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 5:34 PM Author: floppy cruel-hearted messiness step-uncle's house Laziness spurred the change. Some supplements are decent at explaining things, some are not. They were never the main focus of my studying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185687) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 9:52 PM Author: Big corn cake marketing idea I've almost come to love the time on the boards when self-righteous prelaws tell law school students and graduates that they are full of shit/undisciplined/pot-smokers due to their advice that summer prep is a waste of time. It means that spring is on its way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2187727) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2005 4:29 PM Author: Unholy Pink Giraffe Trump Supporter Some dreamer on there applied to Chicago with a 3.1/159. Good luck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2185151) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2005 12:13 AM Author: spectacular box office persian so, Pookie is a Jew? Is she Israeli? Wtf is she?? I know she claims Middle Eastern, what is she?
OTOH, she does have mighty fine Titties! |
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Date: February 23rd, 2005 12:14 AM Author: pontificating up-to-no-good pistol locus Subject: persian (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=139564&forum_id=2#2188942) |