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October 16, 2007
I hope I was never this bad
There are two 1Ls talking about 50 feet away from me right now. According to what I know about the 1L schedule, they're cutting Contracts. One of them is particularly loud, musing about classes, study strategies and future plans as if he's the only first year who really knows the score. He talks about his study strategy "I don't really go, but I do my reading for the most part" and women, "my last girlfriend was really hot." The guy seems to believe he has mastered law school in a month and a half and he hasn't even mastered the "inside voice" yet. Perhaps that was the wedge that drove him apart from his hot ex.
I just overheard him saying, "I'm going to take Civ Pro II. It's trial strategy. It's directly applicable to what I'm going to do." Yes, Mr. High Powered Litigator of 2011, you're totally right. What you learn in Civ Pro II (assuming you go to class, unlike Contracts) will allow you to strut right into any federal courtroom and have run of the place. The big law firm you're going to work for after graduation will recognize those skills and thrust you in front of a judge on day 1 because you took Civ Pro Flippin' II.
What you don't know could fill a book, kid. And not a Civ Pro II book, either.
UPDATE: He's now talking about a party he's throwing. He said, "I didn't know who the cool people were, so I just invited everyone over Facebook. It's about 200 people." Someone will have a lot of booze all to himself...
Posted by rj3 at October 16, 2007 9:33 AM
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Comments
1. this was well written, and witty, thanks.
2. Just so you know when you get out - That jackass (pardon my lapse into the vernacular) will become the guy sitting asking (and answering his own) obnoxious, pompous, self-serving questions at Inns of Court meetings when he gets out and is a first year at Skadden. Assuming he will be that lucky.
People like that are what ruined law school for me.
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