Can't find Great HITS??? 11/15 Ferocious Friday (starring Turking Bear in new Avatar)

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  1. reebs

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    Dolphin have you looked online? I know one attorney who made a website and posted some of her old law school outlines on it. I'm sure google can help you out a bit.
     
  2. danawhitaker

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    Even if it does, I do know that you can add prepaid Visa or Mastercard or whatnot gift cards as credit cards and it removes the account limits in the event you don't have access to an actual credit card.
     
  3. It's Just Bananas

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    jeesh, well I am back again with ANOTHER new computer... installing all of my scripts and page notifier crap again...
     
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    Dude that sucks, but if mtwerk has taught us anything it is how to grind :D. But Imma turk and try to send you something before thanksgiving. I recently got out of my debt(after 5 months) and should be able to ease up them fund. Sucks though I hate to say don't rely on others but when things like that happen it just endorses it.
     
  5. Tribune

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    ow. I thought The Paper Chase (the movie version, not the teevee one) was fiction.

    I don't understand schools using the curve. Not at all.
     
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    Yeah I have, problem is ever professor teaches the law a little bit differently. It's not an insurmountable mountain, again, because I have tiem now that it knows. I just kinda feel stabbed in the back, I haven't had a meltdown night yet in law school so tonight had to be the night.
     
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    It's to please employers. The best firms want the best students, so you have to differentiate between them. Remember half the people that go to law school don't end up becoming lawyers.
     
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    Man and just like that, Poof the the rnr's are mostly gone lol.
     
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    Yeah. That's part of the problem right there. I had a friend who struggled for years after graduating from law school. If they really want to please employers, they should be more selective from the start so that they're only accepting the best students and not wasting the time of the 50% of people who won't end up in the law field.
     
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    They are the worst!
     
  14. Gram

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    I finally figured it out. My money is on its way. Not much, but if we all give alittle it will mount up and help. Be kind to others and life will be kind to you.
     
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    Yeah the problem is the gov't right now is writing a blank check to students in the form of loans (literally, the gov't will loan you your cost of education and the school sets the cost right now, theres aboslutely no regulation).
     
  16. turklyfe

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    School is fricking insane. When I was in engineering, top 15% got a 3.5-4.0 (A- was "90-93", A was 94-100), next ~20% got a B, next 15% got a B-, etc. Most classes were curved to a 2.5 average. Only problem, you need at least a 3.0 in engineering to get a job, and the "average" kid at my school got a 3.7 or 3.8 in high school, over half were in the top 10% of their class.

    Doesn't matter if you know the material, most tests were set up so the average was well below a 70 so it'd necessarily get down to the curve. Heck, I had a test where the AVERAGE was a 40%. 40%! Sure, that's curved to a 2.5, but how the eff does that prove anything? And I thought organic chemistry was bad with the 50% average. Ha.

    It all pretty much led to an insane amount of stress. I absolutely destroyed it at a top 100 school, transferring to a top 25 (top 15 in my program), dropped from getting 3.6-3.8 to 2.7ish. Still working the same 12 hour days, 7 days a week. Reading all the readings, doing all the problems.

    The issue with institutionalized education is how it's set up. It's been that way for a while it seems.
     
  17. turklyfe

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    Ok I should add, I've even had professors complain that the averages were too high (a sane person would think this is a good thing- shows that the kids learned the material the prof wanted them to learn, right? I wish.). Once at a 75, another at 80. Didn't get so lucky the next time around, they made sure of that.
     
  18. Gram

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    Good night everyone. It's after midnight. Time for the old folks to go to bed, so you kids can party.
     
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    Every time I read stuff like this, it reminds me why I'm glad my life derailed and I never did get around to seriously applying to grad schools. Now my dream is to open a video game store.
     
  20. Karamazov

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    Aye. The serious problem with college grades is that they are tied to student aid. You get bad grades, you lose your scholarship, and by bad grades I mean under a 3.25. It's hard enough for most people to scrape a B out of their first calculus class in college. Chemistry and Organic give people fits, for reasons I've never understood entirely, but if you want to do a tech or science field...

    Universities don't want to "fine" students tens of thousands of dollars a year because the student took challenging (meaningful) classes in college.

    edit: I responded to the wrong message.
     
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