Maybe I'm an idealist, but I think that grade curves are unnecessary. All they do is tell you how you did comparatively. What happened to how you did? An A gains more value, sure, but how fair is it to give a B to someone who did A level work but had a 94.9 average instead of a 95.1?

Fuck curves. Fuck grades. I wish they didn't affect my future so

I've never been bad at school before. Now I'm just hoping I can be in the bottom 50% of my class instead of the bottom 25%. And the worst part is that, my position is not due to lack of trying/studying. I am studying and working harder than I have ever before, including during my 290 semester, and I still apparently understand nothing ( Read more... )

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I think everyone should be well informed about the Supreme Court decision made yesterday on Gonzales v. Carhart (the partial-birth abortion case if you've seen it on the news). I made a post about it (including a summary of the decision) and the media panic surrounding it on my other blog: Read more... )

So I'm set on going to Northwestern University School of Law (it's super exciting to type that). There is one barrier that's stopping me from it really being official, and that's withdrawing from The Law School at The University of Chicago (notice the pretentious name, heh). UChicago was my first choice when I started this process, and I didn't ( Read more... )

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I don't know what bothers me more:

The smug look and even smugger sentence, "Well, film isn't for everyone," I hear when I tell some cinema students about how I'm going to law school next year

or

the fact that a couple years ago, I would have acted exactly like they are now.

Dear slack-jawed guy in the A's hat ( Read more... )

So I was just thinking about how everyone makes lists of the best and worst things they've ever done, but no one thinks about the mediocre. Probably because no one remembers them. But I remember the most mediocre date I've ever been on, so I thought I'd honor mediocrity today ( Read more... )

so i did everything i needed to. my applications are turned in. i've taken my lsat. all i have to do now is wait ( Read more... )