Blogging the law school

[linusrichard]

I thought I would blog the law school, if I had time. I appear to be more or less "caught up" at the moment, so here are a few words

Comments

[goatfarmer2b]

law school is much more interesting to read about than i would have guessed. :)

[linusrichard]

Glad to hear! Hopefully I'll be posting more about it!

[caywood]

Do you feel a community with your classmates or do you get the feeling that everyone is in competition?

[linusrichard]

A little of both, I think. The competition part is less than I expected. The community part manifests itself more in cliques, which I think is actually a good thing. I usually study with 3-6 people - I couldn't study in a group with 60 people! So cliques are natural and expected and somewhat helpful. They get bad when different cliques hate each other, or people don't feel they can intermingle between cliques. This hasn't happened yet (much).

So: More community than competition.

[jessacord]

I had no idea MSU held evening law school classes! Do you, like most law schools, not have class on Fridays or is that another urban myth?

[linusrichard]

I believe all first years have their writing class on Friday and the rest of their classes on Monday through Thursday. I try to get my writing assignments done before Thursday, so I don't have to do anything Thursday night, and then Friday morning I go to class from 9-10:30 and then I have the rest of the day. It's kind of like a three-day weekend, considering if I had Friday off, I'd probably sleep past 10:30 anyway. Like I say, I believe that's the situation for all 1Ls, but I don't know about upper level students. I do know that the law building is a lot less busy on Fridays.

[dreampeanut]

How often did you say that the Fly Girls come out and dance?

[linusrichard]

I didn't say. And I won't say. There is such a thing as "legal ethics," you know. "Professional responsibility." "Attorney-client privilege."

You won't get another word out of me.