I'm going to Florence for Erasmus semester in the fall. :nodd:
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I'm going to Florence for Erasmus semester in the fall. :nodd:
It was shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Although staying in London and working all the time to afford it would've been shit too.
All three of spoons options are in nice cities tbf. ( if you can call LA nice :sick:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
When President Bernie is sworn in, Mert might actually top himself
Now that's just ridiculous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mert
I would never date an Asian.
In all honesty I kind of agree with you, especially about Reed, that's why imma go to McGill and find a cute French girl instead. :rasta:
Dude you're smart enough that you could get through Utah with a very high GPA, close connections to professors (who would be impressed by your relative intelligence and genuine interest in I'm assuming a niche humanities subject), while enjoying a memorable College Experience (tm) to boot. After that, assuming you are diligent about your grades you could do a post-grad study somewhere sick (coming from Utah would add 'diversity' at that level) and you would have a very nice life / resume (with much less debt on top of it).Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoonsky
McGill sounds better than Utah obviously (in fact my sister might go there :| if Georgetown / Duke doesn't work out) and don't get me wrong, congratulations that's a great school and you should be proud, but I genuinely don't think you would be happier. Utah would give you the chance at a quintessential college experience which is literally invaluable / so fun and it doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. I could even get you a letter of recommendation for whatever chapter you would want to rush down the line (which you should absolutely do).
A letter of recommendation from mert. :rasta:
Back to classes on Wednesday. Left an essay until the last minute again. I should know better by know :uhoh:
The week or so after finals is great though. But then you have to leave and it's all a bit sad and depressing.Quote:
Originally Posted by AD
What are going to do next?
Other than the fact you're talking about a system that classes Arabs as 'white', thereby sinking his 'diversity' credentials from the start, I agree with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mert
Many people going into accountancy? I only know one who did that although he's one of my best mates.Quote:
Originally Posted by AD
Wouldn't you be better off becoming a solicitor if you're going to go somewhere corporatey like that?
Last thing we need is another accountant ffs.
Gambling full time though. :D
McGill should definitely be your top choice @Spoonsky. Occidental sucks and Reed's not much better. The "quintessential college experience" is fine but not that great (the European lifestyle is way better), and at Utah you'd be around dumbfucks. The #1 thing I've profited from by being at a top school is other people pushing me to become better. You wouldn't get that at Utah. Still probably better than those random UC's / Reed, but definitely do McGill if you can.
That's it, I'll go to McGill and bang Mert's sister.
Just got back from UC Santa Cruz and it's literally paradise though. I won't go because it's too expensive / not rigorous enough but it is so nice.
She's too snobby and entitled for you, don't get your hopes up (:arry:). Anyways she should get into Georgetown and Duke is a reach (it'll be interesting to see how much legacy status really matters) so this is all very hypothetical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoonsky
I also really don't get the pattern of the schools you applied to.
To clarify what I said earlier, I wouldn't necessarily write your letter of reccomendation but I have friends who are alumni from just about every major national fraternity, I would have them sign their name off of something you wrote yourself so it was legit.
They were mostly good (often too good lmaooo) schools in big cities, of varying sizes. My mom just told me to apply to Santa Cruz because it's really nice.
Not rigorous enough, as if any US university is 'rigorous.' Any top tier school has like a 90%+ graduation rate ffs.
Affirmative action and athletes. Just saying.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
:baz:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pepe
I think you've run out of things to say in life and now you just create opinions through recombination.
We're in STATE OF ALERT as someone was shot on campus. I'm stuck in a bloody warehouse. :moop:
http://www.kmov.com/story/31774690/w...seen-on-campus
Third 'someone with a gun roaming around' alert in a month or so. One injured person this time apparently. According to my neighbour, who is a professor, it was a drive-by shooting (he could be making it all up of course.)
I thought you were exaggerating in the other thread, Pepe, but that is a pretty harrowing story.
You okay?
Accountancy is a big risk given the robots are coming for it.
I'd do something less processy if you can.
Taking six months off to recover.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ian
The 9-month process is over, I've paid my deposit at McGill. Feels weird man.
Adios America. :wave:
Awesome Spoon. They will be the 4 best years of your life. I'm almost done with year 3 of 4 and I already have so many regrets, but also so many memories. And I'm a totally different person than I was coming in.
And you already updated your Facebook cover photo. I take back everything I said.
I'm a slave to social norms. :(
Hang on, what are you doing creeping on my Facebook (I know I'm one to talk)? If you're going to do that just add me.
I tried adding you like 4 years ago and you never accepted so eventually i withdrew my request and now i just watch you
I'd say you smashed it. Spoons. :cool:
I probably didn't know who you were. Get back on it, think of all the Bernie Sanders articles you're missing out on.Quote:
Originally Posted by mokbull
I reckon I've seen most of those through what my friend's wife shares. They're normally accompanied by profound comments about reforming the education system so that people stop voting Republican, and what claims to be a picture of 'Bernie' protesting man's banishment from the Garden of Eden.
About 36 hours from being done with my last exam (that I am completely and utterly fucked for) of 1L year.
It has been, easily, the worst most miserable experience of my entire life. The issue I have with the word miserable in using to describe the last nine months is that it is relative, so that your understanding of the word is grounded in your experiences of what misery feels like. The misery I am referring to is so far beyond anything I had ever experienced prior to coming to law school, I don't think it's possible to comprehend unless you have gone through something similar. I have spent the last 8-10 hours of every day for the last 6 weeks studying dense, uninteresting, idiosyncratic material, essentially on my own with little to no social interaction, and to show for it, I will be absolutely delighted to have done average relative to my peers.
People used to tell me, don't go to law school unless you really are passionate about the law and an obsessively well organized and industrious student. I thought, meh, I'm pretty smart, I've done well in school, shouldn't be too bad. It's bad. So bad. I don't know what life would have been like if I had just been another Duke kid in consulting, but I can't imagine that it would be worse than this.
I'm off to bed now, and tomorrow I will wake up again and probably pull an all-nighter going into my 9 AM, 4 hour exam. Rant over.
I well say, my sister in law went to study law and she felt the same way, the first year absolutely broke her mentally.
Living the dream, eh. Reckon you'll continue?
It's a piece of piss.
Although I've no idea about the yanks with their juris doctors and pop quizzes. As a postgrad thing do you just get bombed with 3 (1.5) years worth of work in 1 (like the GDL)?
Of course, I'm not some pussy quitter. This is the price you pay for a lifetime of prestige, socioeconomically segregated and safe neighborhoods and an attitude of sneering condescension towards the peasantry. My parents did it, now it's my turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoonsky
I have a job this summer in the legal department of one of the top 100 largest multinational corporations in the world. I'm doing fine. But it's fucking brutal.
Lol piece of piss? You're graded on a curve alongside probably the top 1-2% smartest kids in your generation in the country, law school is a lot of things, but it's not easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
It's 3 years, but pretty much you get the core actually important classes out of the way in the first year.
I'll admit I have no idea about the US system with it's class rankings and all. Do you need to be the x best in your year to get a job? At the end of the day, unless you are doing it for intellectual curiosity, which almost nobody does (I did, I'm an idiot), you only need to do enough to get the bit of paper (or whatever you need at the end). You don't need to read those 3000 articles on the native land rights of Australian aborigines and how they can sit within a system of private property, or whatever else. Does the US even have the more esoteric stuff we call property law (I think most/tinpot places actually split it into equities and trusts and land law)?
They probably just make it beastly to prepare you for life in a large American law firm, which, as far as I can tell, is absolute, well, misery. Good word.
An 8 week placement in a law firm was enough to convince me that I had absolutely zero interest in pursuing that as a career. What a soulless existence.
I bet I could don it. No pussy meltdowns either.
Effectively you need to score median to have a reasonable chance of getting a reasonable job (unless you qualify as 'diversity' which I do not), and you need to score top third if you want to be competitive for a top job. Think of the smartest, most sociopathic, most type A, hardest working people you have ever met. Put them in a room, and then have them compete academically against each other for their chance to snag a 160k/year job at age 25. That's what law school is like in the T-14.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
I just keep my room / desk clean and work in my room for the most part. It's at the point where I think the process of going to library wastes too much time because that's maybe 30 minutes of getting everything together both ways, plus lost time for getting food, going to the bathroom, refilling water bottles, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by AD
It's not sustainable and I'm utterly spent at this point. 100% dependent on nicotine and stimulants, blood pressure is through the roof and my resting heart rate is probably in the 80s. If I had to do it for one more week I don't think I would make it.
23 hours left.
5 minutes until the exam starts, killing time beforehand.Quote:
Originally Posted by AD
They've got a 'champagne celebration' event right after, it's as if they want us to be alcoholics.
We don't get any time off before exams to revise, shit sucks.
I find it hard to work anywhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by AD
At home there are too many things to make me slide into procrastination mode and at a library there are too many people and because I'm a seriously nosey twat I'll spend most of the time listening and watching other people.
Most examinations boil down to technique. Once you crack how to get marks, the rest should flow from there.
Tired students make mistakes. That can't be very good for patient safety.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend