November 12, 2010 at 2:03 pm
As law student, it’s not long before you’ll be introduced to Above the Law (also known as ATL), an online legal tabloid and blog. It’s extremely popular, so much so that large law firms taken notice of it. This blog is also a fantastic way to waste a half hour or so of your life. […]
November 1, 2010 at 2:47 pm
There is no way around it; the BU law tower is ugly. It’s an upturned cinder block; a towering hunk of concrete ugliness; a giant ugly eyesore. It’s 110 degrees in the winter or 30 degrees in the summer. The elevators don’t work. A lot of prospective students tell me that one of the biggest […]
October 31, 2010 at 9:42 pm
Law school is an interesting place in that it forces otherwise highly intelligent, capable, academic rock stars to become overly self-conscious, timid workaholics who melt under the sheer weight of the experience and the intimidatingly obvious intellect of their professors. Of course this proverbial scrambling of the egg heads is all par for the course in […]
October 28, 2010 at 12:24 pm
Tonight, on the eve of my twenty-seventh birthday, while pumping away on a stationary bike at the gym, I finished reading Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a novel in which characters perceive life in varying degrees of lightness or heaviness. The book, my impending birthday, and the grunting of undergrad weightlifters in much better […]
October 26, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Discovering the Fells Reservation has been a quality of life boon to my family and I look forward to long walks there with my dog—when I get a dog, when I graduate, unless we get the bison that my son told his BU Children’s Center teachers that he wants. The Fells is only a 14-minute […]
October 25, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Going of my classmate Eric Thompson’s post on law students being competitive…I would have to agree, law students are definitely competitive, so much so that our Student Government Association (SGA) held a scavenger hunt/race around the city for us with prizes for the top three teams and the team with the best costumes. When race […]
October 24, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Law students are really competitive. Well, of course they are, that’s how they got to where they are. Still, this competitive nature is not exclusive to the classroom. They exercise too. No, I’m not talking about using the stairmaster while they review their con law notes…actually, some people probably do that. It’s not my thing, […]
October 23, 2010 at 4:17 pm
Watching the film last Thursday took me back to my first days as a teacher. I was a twenty-two-year-old from Kansas, equipped with little more than a bachelor’s degree, a six-week teaching boot camp, and a naïve desire to save the world. My task: reach and teach five periods a day of high energy, low-performing […]
October 22, 2010 at 11:14 pm
Before coming to law school, everyone is warned of the Socratic method as just one of the fundamental reasons law school is a drag. I have, myself, wondered to what extent the maintenance of this method is a form of self-perpetuating hazing, or whether its tried & trueness will, in fact, shine through in the end. […]
October 22, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Being a first year law student who is older on average than most of the 2nd and 3rd year law students can pose interesting challenges. On the one hand it is cool because you are not alone, if you are savvy, you can typically find a couple of other students (indeed two of the people […]
