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Presidentjlh wrote:Because.

Now suck it up and get back to work

Swimp wrote:How did you make it to law school if you're this whiny about taking tests?

brotherdarkness wrote:This thread sucks.

BigRob wrote:There must be a better way.
Why is this a thing?

Mr.Throwback wrote:Finals should be a one-on-one session with your professor wherein she grills you for three hours about the course. She gives a couple writing assignments, asks you various questions, and analyzes your ability as a potential lawyer.

Geaux12 wrote:

Mr.Throwback wrote:Finals should be a one-on-one session with your professor wherein she grills you for three hours about the course. She gives a couple writing assignments, asks you various questions, and analyzes your ability as a potential lawyer.

That would be ridiculously subjective. I understand that life can often be subjective, but you can't build a curriculum, much less a system of education, around that kind of shit.

Presidentjlh wrote:If you think finals are just about memorization, you're doing it wrong.

Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:

Geaux12 wrote:

Mr.Throwback wrote:Finals should be a one-on-one session with your professor wherein she grills you for three hours about the course. She gives a couple writing assignments, asks you various questions, and analyzes your ability as a potential lawyer.

That would be ridiculously subjective. I understand that life can often be subjective, but you can't build a curriculum, much less a system of education, around that kind of shit.

So what if it's subjective, it's still better than what we have now. The only redeeming quality about the current system is that it does spread out the class by work ethic rather nicely. But really it's only testing people who commit to playing the game. I know lots of students who just put in enough to get by because the system is so dumb. I mean seriously, memorizing details about inter-jurisdictional "majority rules" that everyone is going to forget in three weeks...

Presidentjlh wrote:If you think finals are just about memorization, you're doing it wrong.

Lord Randolph McDuff wrote:

Presidentjlh wrote:If you think finals are just about memorization, you're doing it wrong.

Agree. You still have to know the course cold to do well, though. Meaning you have to memorize a ton of bullshit erm I mean "law." Sorry law.

Swimp wrote:How did you make it to law school if you're this whiny about taking tests?

brotherdarkness wrote:I posted this on Reddit earlier in response to a law student asking about finals stress, but just to put something serious ITT:

Second week of finals is about to start. I have my next, and last, exam (income tax) on Tuesday afternoon. I'm vacillating between feeling that I know tax law and feeling that I'm going to get ravaged by the curve.

I haven't been sleeping or eating enough, I've been consuming far too much caffeine, but things could be worse. I keep reminding myself that there are billions of people who would love to take my place should they be given the opportunity and that the fact that I'm taking these exams is a privilege, not a plight. I see a lot of 1Ls who seem to have forgotten that they're at one of the best law schools in the nation and receiving an education that will lead many of them to biglaw. Perspective, my friends, perspective. Things could be far worse.

sublime wrote:

brotherdarkness wrote:This thread sucks.

And it seems I generally do as well.

Also, +1 to BD's serious post.



Often when I want to complain, I consider that the vast majority of my friends do not have an AA even and are stuck working in shit, dead end jobs, while I get to go to a cushy private university for cheap just to study and learn shit, while not even having to work.

I have seen some shit in my life, LS doesn't even scratch the surface, it will be fine, even if it's not.