1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

View unanswered posts | View active topics

Board index » Students and Graduates » Forum for Law School Students

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]

1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Page 23 of 34

[ 830 posts ]

Go to page Previous 1 ... 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 ... 34 Next

Previous topic | Next topic

Author

Message

ilovesf

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:02 pm

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:20 pm
Posts: 15404

Lasers wrote:

lisavj wrote:

DildaMan wrote:

Waiting on tax to make or break me.

^this. On the plus side ran the numbers last night and I'll have a 3.5 even if I failed. But I'd rather not fail.

haha, if by fail you mean a D or F, i can tell you with confidence you did not fail.

Did you guys like tax? I feel like I have to take it. I might take it next semester with morse, but I heard better things about fields so I'm not sure what to do.

Top

DildaMan

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:12 pm

Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:03 pm
Posts: 341

ilovesf wrote:

Lasers wrote:

lisavj wrote:

DildaMan wrote:

Waiting on tax to make or break me.

^this. On the plus side ran the numbers last night and I'll have a 3.5 even if I failed. But I'd rather not fail.

haha, if by fail you mean a D or F, i can tell you with confidence you did not fail.

Did you guys like tax? I feel like I have to take it. I might take it next semester with morse, but I heard better things about fields so I'm not sure what to do.

Fields was an awesome teacher, and surprisingly tax was one of my favorite classes this semester. I have no clue how Morse is though. Fields doesn't answer stupid questions, which is a refreshing quality in a law professor.

Top

lisavj

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:15 pm

Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:42 pm
Posts: 247

Lasers wrote:

i just mean to imply she wouldn't fall into that category.

Aww thx

Loved tax. Wish we had more pxtc MC, but the lexis iPad q&a app rocked...
Field knows her stuff solid *and* has a cute dog

. I'd recommend the class. Hoping I did well bc I could see myself as a tax lawyer...

Top

ilovesf

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:32 pm

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:20 pm
Posts: 15404

Ugh. I wish I had taken tax instead of immigration.

Top

DildaMan

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:37 pm

Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:03 pm
Posts: 341

ilovesf wrote:

Ugh. I wish I had taken tax instead of immigration.

Was immigration that bad?

Top

rad lulz

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:50 pm

Joined: Sun Feb 19, 2012 10:53 pm
Posts: 9074

Is there wailing and gnashing of teeth among Hastings TLSers now?

Top

kapital98

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:54 pm

Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:58 pm
Posts: 988

DildaMan wrote:

ilovesf wrote:

Ugh. I wish I had taken tax instead of immigration.

Was immigration that bad?

I liked immigration. The material was interesting and the class was incredibly diverse. I also loved having a take-home midterm and final. Take-home exams are my strong suit.

However, I'm also in LEOP. LEOP students got a lot of help in the course. 1/2 the students were in LEOP because of self-selection (they tend to prefer immigration issues.) So I can understand if a non-LEOP person didn't like it.

Top

kapital98

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:55 pm

Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:58 pm
Posts: 988

rad lulz wrote:

Is there wailing and gnashing of teeth among Hastings TLSers now?

Only melancholy and infinite sadness. It will probably get worse with time and lingering unemployment.

Top

kapital98

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:57 pm

Joined: Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:58 pm
Posts: 988

ilovesf wrote:

Lasers wrote:

lisavj wrote:

DildaMan wrote:

Waiting on tax to make or break me.

^this. On the plus side ran the numbers last night and I'll have a 3.5 even if I failed. But I'd rather not fail.

haha, if by fail you mean a D or F, i can tell you with confidence you did not fail.

Did you guys like tax? I feel like I have to take it. I might take it next semester with morse, but I heard better things about fields so I'm not sure what to do.

I had Morse as an academic advisor. She's very kind and supportive. However, she speaks with a slight lisp so that might get under your skin with time.

Top

ilovesf

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:16 pm

Joined: Wed Oct 20, 2010 5:20 pm
Posts: 15404

kapital98 wrote:

DildaMan wrote:

ilovesf wrote:

Ugh. I wish I had taken tax instead of immigration.

Was immigration that bad?

It was interesting and light in work. His grading though blows my mind. I went over several old tests with him and my full essay responses and he said they were great. I did the exact same thing on the test and got a bad grade. I just don't understand him. He's a really nice guy though and I like him as a person, but I'm really frustrated.

Top

DildaMan

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 7:23 pm

Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 1:03 pm
Posts: 341

ilovesf wrote:

Same thing happened to me in Torts. For Con Law, my professor said if you make typos you are stupid and deserve to fail/die.

Top

dabomb75

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:43 pm

Joined: Wed Jan 14, 2009 10:56 pm
Posts: 438

abc12345675 wrote:

Went from a pathetic 2.52 first semester to a 3.45 this semester. Now basically back to median (which is 3.0 at my school), which is pretty remarkable considering that first semester. Very glad I ignored advice to drop out.

My approach:
~~- No notes during class this semester. Just sit and listen and absorb.~~ zone out in class
- No making my own outline. Just memorized old ones
- LEARN how to take exams, not just take practice exams where I do the same wrong stuff every time. For me, this was cutting out the paragraphs of background info I gave on exams in 1st semester and modifying IRAC to CRAC, which 2 of my professors told me was much better.

I slightly modified your approach for how I approached class this semester

. Congrats on the huge improvement by the way.

Anyways, got my last grade back: A- in con law. GPA this semester: 3.7, overall GPA 3.6.

Through countless hours of scouring through TLS, I've been able to guesstimate that my overall GPA of a 3.6 is around top 20% of the class, which I'm thrilled about. Did better this semester while putting in probably 1/2 the effort I put in last semester.

Top

acg

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:34 pm

Joined: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:44 pm
Posts: 12

Is it normal for legal writing to be the last grade I'm waiting on? I calle the registrar and they said despite the last assignment being due in March and having all our assignment grades back, we won't get the actual final grade until 4 weeks after the last final.. That seems a tad ridiculous to me, no? (end.rant)

Top

bostonlawchick

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:36 pm

Joined: Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:09 am
Posts: 675

It is ridiculous how long it takes to get a legal writing grade. I don't know about your school, but at ours all the writing professors are adjunct and have real jobs in addition to teaching though, so I cut them a little slack. Still.. almost two months to grade ~45 papers is a liiiitle ridiculous.

We get all our grades back at once, so I can understand waiting to release the actual grade, but I'd at least like my score on my final brief so I have a better idea of what to expect for my actual grade.

Top

acg

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:06 pm

Joined: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:44 pm
Posts: 12

My legal writing class had about 16 students and my professor taught 2 sections. She finished grading our final memos by the second week in April and released the grades to us 3 weeks ago. Just want to see how the raw grades play out into a curve..

I have a feeling it's more of a school policy though, which infuriates me even more..

Top

pballer

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:22 pm

Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2011 5:58 pm
Posts: 247

I only have my LRW grade and one other out of 5 grades. I'd love to have all but LRW; count yourself lucky.

Top

crossarmant

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:35 pm

Joined: Fri Jan 14, 2011 8:01 am
Posts: 1360

Finally got my last grade for the semester; almost exactly the same as last semester. Let's just hope the honors cut-offs drop for the cumulative year.

Top

Bildungsroman

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 2:44 pm

Joined: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:42 pm
Posts: 13036

Just finished my last final, so officially joining the wait.

Haven't gotten LRW final grade yet, but so far my memo and brief grade tell me that LRW is not my strong suit.

Top

lawyerwannabe

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 5:31 pm

Joined: Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:39 pm
Posts: 852

Bildungsroman wrote:

Just finished my last final, so officially joining the wait.

Haven't gotten LRW final grade yet, but so far my memo and brief grade tell me that LRW is not my strong suit.

Amen.

And Duke should be releasing grades by Friday!

Top

MrPapagiorgio

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:14 pm

Joined: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:36 am
Posts: 2725

Bildungsroman wrote:

Just finished my last final, so officially joining the wait.

Haven't gotten LRW final grade yet, but so far my memo and brief grade tell me that LRW is not my strong suit.

As I've said before, LRW grading is a joke. One guy in my LRW section had 2 A's and 2 A-'s in his doctrinal classes in the fall semester, and a B- LRW. Ridiculous.

Top

lawyerwannabe

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 6:17 pm

Joined: Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:39 pm
Posts: 852

MrPapagiorgio wrote:

Bildungsroman wrote:

Just finished my last final, so officially joining the wait.

Haven't gotten LRW final grade yet, but so far my memo and brief grade tell me that LRW is not my strong suit.

As I've said before, LRW grading is a joke. One guy in my LRW section had 2 A's and 2 A-'s in his doctrinal classes in the fall semester, and a B- LRW. Ridiculous.

My school doesn't do letter grades but I think my LARW grade will be in the B/B- range, unfortunately.

Top

Jessuf

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:03 pm

Love me, Tinder?

Joined: Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:27 pm
Posts: 6800

I got a congratulations e-mail today for getting the best brief grade and an invitation to join moot court. Makes me almost sad to be transferring because I will miss out on a bunch of opportunities by leaving my old school. I really wanted to do moot court for the traveling.

And grades were due today, and I'm still waiting while the other sections have all of their grades.

Top

Stringer6

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:08 pm

Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:45 am
Posts: 4008

"I got a low grade in legal writing, so grading in legal writing is BS"

Top

Bildungsroman

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:44 pm

Joined: Sun Apr 11, 2010 2:42 pm
Posts: 13036

Stringer6 wrote:

"I got a low grade in legal writing, so grading in legal writing is BS"

Is this a claim you're making, or are you accusing people in this thread of this? Because if it's the latter, sorry your butt is hurt that nobody respects your tiny pink LRW grade.

Top

lawyerwannabe

Post subject: Re: 1L Spring Grades Waiting Room

Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:51 pm

Joined: Sun Aug 08, 2010 10:39 pm
Posts: 852

Stringer6 wrote:

"I got a low grade in legal writing, so grading in legal writing is BS"

I wish that it was either ungraded or worth a proportional number of credits to the amount of work the class requires.

Top