Yale 1L Taking Questions Forum

[JLin179]

1) Yale was always my first choice. Money didn't factor much into my decision. The prestige at Yale was too much to walk away from.

2) Yale is littered with people who want go to DC and do public interest/legislative work. I know we have a legislative advocacy clinic and people who wanted to work in the Senate this summer all found jobs here.

3) I remember receiving financial aid award sometime in March before ASW. I don't think everyone finds out at the same time, though.

4) In terms of the sex, it's simply out of control. Law students and business students, law students and med students, and even law students and forestry school students. I should clarify lest the board think I'm some sort of prude: a very sizable portion of the sex that I have heard about has been, shall we say, "unnatural." The amount of non-vaginal intercourse had by folks of all persuasions here is truly astonishing. I recognize the pluralism of modern American society, but it is extremely inappropriate by any standard.

[WhiteGuy5]

4) In terms of the sex, it's simply out of control. Law students and business students, law students and med students, and even law students and forestry school students. I should clarify lest the board think I'm some sort of prude: a very sizable portion of the sex that I have heard about has been, shall we say, "unnatural." The amount of non-vaginal intercourse had by folks of all persuasions here is truly astonishing. I recognize the pluralism of modern American society, but it is extremely inappropriate by any standard.

What about blowjobs?

[062914123]

1) Yale was always my first choice. Money didn't factor much into my decision. The prestige at Yale was too much to walk away from.

2) Yale is littered with people who want go to DC and do public interest/legislative work. I know we have a legislative advocacy clinic and people who wanted to work in the Senate this summer all found jobs here.

3) I remember receiving financial aid award sometime in March before ASW. I don't think everyone finds out at the same time, though.

4) In terms of the sex, it's simply out of control. Law students and business students, law students and med students, and even law students and forestry school students. I should clarify lest the board think I'm some sort of prude: a very sizable portion of the sex that I have heard about has been, shall we say, "unnatural." The amount of non-vaginal intercourse had by folks of all persuasions here is truly astonishing. I recognize the pluralism of modern American society, but it is extremely inappropriate by any standard.

[BEAST_mode]

1) What do you do for fun in New Haven? Normal stuff. This city is not as much of a dump as people think

4) In terms of the sex, it's simply out of control. Law students and business students, law students and med students, and even law students and forestry school students. I should clarify lest the board think I'm some sort of prude: a very sizable portion of the sex that I have heard about has been, shall we say, "unnatural." The amount of non-vaginal intercourse had by folks of all persuasions here is truly astonishing. I recognize the pluralism of modern American society, but it is extremely inappropriate by any standard.

[arewehavingfunyet]

Do you know anything about the deferral process? How does one get a deferral? Is it hard? What kind of reasons do you need?

[JLin179]

Do you know anything about the deferral process? How does one get a deferral? Is it hard? What kind of reasons do you need?

I don't think its very hard to get a deferral if you have some plan for the year off that you can articulate for the school. I'd also highly recommend deferring for a year. The people who deferred are generally the least licentious. I think a year off can tame the loins and calm the passions.

[062914123]

Do you know anything about the deferral process? How does one get a deferral? Is it hard? What kind of reasons do you need?

I don't think its very hard to get a deferral if you have some plan for the year off that you can articulate for the school. I'd also highly recommend deferring for a year. The people who deferred are generally the least licentious. I think a year off can tame the loins and calm the passions.

You're actually too funny for me to hit the little red !

[JLin179]

Do you know anything about the deferral process? How does one get a deferral? Is it hard? What kind of reasons do you need?

I don't think its very hard to get a deferral if you have some plan for the year off that you can articulate for the school. I'd also highly recommend deferring for a year. The people who deferred are generally the least licentious. I think a year off can tame the loins and calm the passions.

You're actually too funny for me to hit the little red !

Not sure what you mean, but keep the question coming.

[WhiteGuy5]

Not sure what you mean, but keep the question coming.

You ignored my question but whatever.

[JLin179]

Not sure what you mean, but keep the question coming.

You ignored my question but whatever.

I have personal knowledge about 11. PM me for details.

[WhiteGuy5]

Not sure what you mean, but keep the question coming.

You ignored my question but whatever.

I have personal knowledge about 11. PM me for details.

It's not funny if you're a troll, and straight up creepy if you're not.

[Elston Gunn]

I am so confused by this thread...

[abitaman6363]

I go to YLS as well and I'm even confused by this thread. I'll jump in on a couple questions as well if anyone has them.

My background: large state school, median LSAT, upper-75th GPA, want to do firm work (fairly rare as far as YLS goes).
Overall impressions: YLS is everything you make of it. It is the most liberating school around, which has it's positives and negatives. You can do anything you want here and be given all the resources to do it. This, however, forces you really quickly to start considering what exactly it is you want to do.

New Haven--I was prepared for the worst. I've actually be really, really surprised. Lots of amazing places to eat. Discovering new places to go out every day. I am a bit jealous of Harvard Square and Cambridge I will admit, but I would never, never, never trade the stress-free environment I have here for the vibes I get at Harvard. There is just something to this place that makes it incredibly laid back.

I'll try to check back once a day for any ?s and would also be happy to met with anyone during ASW.

[iamthe99thpercentile]

I go to YLS as well and I'm even confused by this thread.

Overall impressions: YLS is everything you make of it. It is the most liberating school around, which has it's positives and negatives.

I call bullshit. No way does an actual student at tYLS make such a TTT grammar mistake.

Q for the OP: softs???

[myselfersonEsq]

Is Yale really as awful as everyone says? They say no one wants to apply there at all, and then when you get there, everyone tries to leave or kill themselves, no matter how many times Claire Danes and Tom Hanks show up on campus. Apparently they are bribing people to visit with an ugly dog?

Does that work?

What do you like about law school. Are you rich yet?

[Ohiobumpkin]

1) Yale was always my first choice. Money didn't factor much into my decision. The prestige at Yale was too much to walk away from.

2) Yale is littered with people who want go to DC and do public interest/legislative work. I know we have a legislative advocacy clinic and people who wanted to work in the Senate this summer all found jobs here.

3) I remember receiving financial aid award sometime in March before ASW. I don't think everyone finds out at the same time, though.

4) In terms of the sex, it's simply out of control. Law students and business students, law students and med students, and even law students and forestry school students. I should clarify lest the board think I'm some sort of prude: a very sizable portion of the sex that I have heard about has been, shall we say, "unnatural." The amount of non-vaginal intercourse had by folks of all persuasions here is truly astonishing. I recognize the pluralism of modern American society, but it is extremely inappropriate by any standard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NyzQwwO ... =fvwp&NR=1

[Ioannis]

sex is pretty awesome, i'm not sure why you feel all high and mighty and worthy of condemning people for just having sex. It's pretty natural.
sorry for derailing, I just hate that mentality.

[JLin179]

I go to YLS as well and I'm even confused by this thread.

Overall impressions: YLS is everything you make of it. It is the most liberating school around, which has it's positives and negatives.

I call bullshit. No way does an actual student at tYLS make such a TTT grammar mistake.

Q for the OP: softs???

Don't want to get too specific, but I didn't have especially great softs. A few minor leadership positions and decent, but not great internships. I wouldn't let the class profile intimidate you out of applying if you have good numbers and can write a compelling PS and 250.

[JLin179]

1) Yale was always my first choice. Money didn't factor much into my decision. The prestige at Yale was too much to walk away from.

2) Yale is littered with people who want go to DC and do public interest/legislative work. I know we have a legislative advocacy clinic and people who wanted to work in the Senate this summer all found jobs here.

3) I remember receiving financial aid award sometime in March before ASW. I don't think everyone finds out at the same time, though.

4) In terms of the sex, it's simply out of control. Law students and business students, law students and med students, and even law students and forestry school students. I should clarify lest the board think I'm some sort of prude: a very sizable portion of the sex that I have heard about has been, shall we say, "unnatural." The amount of non-vaginal intercourse had by folks of all persuasions here is truly astonishing. I recognize the pluralism of modern American society, but it is extremely inappropriate by any standard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NyzQwwO ... =fvwp&NR=1

To my knowledge there has been no cocaine use among the 1L class. Though nothing would shock me at this point.

[JLin179]

sex is pretty awesome, i'm not sure why you feel all high and mighty and worthy of condemning people for just having sex. It's pretty natural.
sorry for derailing, I just hate that mentality.

Let me begin by noting your clearly invalid move from the supposed naturalness of sex-having to its moral acceptability. Murder, rape, gambling, and rap music may very well be natural to the human condition, but obviously no rational person would conclude that they are therefore morally appropriate.

Beyond your logical failing, though, is your factual error in supposing that everyone who condemns sex-having deems himself to be "high and mighty." I am no saint. There are times when I am more Dionysius than Apollo--days when my appetite gets the better of my intellect. You presumably don't deem yourself "high and mighty" when you deign to condemn murders and thieves, do you?

[Ioannis]

sex is pretty awesome, i'm not sure why you feel all high and mighty and worthy of condemning people for just having sex. It's pretty natural.
sorry for derailing, I just hate that mentality.

Let me begin by noting your clearly invalid move from the supposed naturalness of sex-having to its moral acceptability. Murder, rape, gambling, and rap music may very well be natural to the human condition, but obviously no rational person would conclude that they are therefore morally appropriate.

Beyond your logical failing, though, is your factual error in supposing that everyone who condemns sex-having deems himself to be "high and mighty." I am no saint. There are times when I am more Dionysius than Apollo--days when my appetite gets the better of my intellect. You presumably don't deem yourself "high and mighty" when you deign to condemn murders and thieves, do you?

Sex is an agreement between two (or maybe more) people to do something that does no harm. I'm talking about consensual sex. You can not lump that with murder and rape.
You assumed a position of the high and mighty when you condemned something that does not violate the (positive version) golden rule of morals, "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself".
You could argue that sex leads to std spread/unwanted reproduction, but we have means to test/prevent those ends.
Looks like there's nothing immoral about (protected or planned unprotected) consensual sex.

[JLin179]

sex is pretty awesome, i'm not sure why you feel all high and mighty and worthy of condemning people for just having sex. It's pretty natural.
sorry for derailing, I just hate that mentality.

Let me begin by noting your clearly invalid move from the supposed naturalness of sex-having to its moral acceptability. Murder, rape, gambling, and rap music may very well be natural to the human condition, but obviously no rational person would conclude that they are therefore morally appropriate.

Beyond your logical failing, though, is your factual error in supposing that everyone who condemns sex-having deems himself to be "high and mighty." I am no saint. There are times when I am more Dionysius than Apollo--days when my appetite gets the better of my intellect. You presumably don't deem yourself "high and mighty" when you deign to condemn murders and thieves, do you?

Sex is an agreement between two people to do something that does no harm. I'm talking about consensual sex. You can not lump that with murder and rape.
You assumed a position of the high and mighty when you condemned something that does not violate the (positive version) golden rule of morals, "One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself".
You could argue that sex leads to std spread/unwanted reproduction, but we have means to test/prevent those ends.
Looks like there's nothing immoral about (protected or planned unprotected) consensual sex.

Sir,

You seem to misunderstand my point. Your moral defense of sex-havers relied on the "naturalness" of their conduct. This reason is clearly insufficient to support your conclusion because there is no necessary connection between naturalness and moral acceptability. There are activities (killing people, wearing suggestive clothing, cohabitation) that fall within the set of things we may deem "natural" that we obviously would not want to place within the set of things bearing the label "morally appropriate."

I am not clear on why you think the Golden Rule vindicates the appropriateness of sex-having. I don't want to sex-have with others, so I won't have them sex-have with me. If all moral condemnation necessarily fails according to the Golden Rule, then it seems to be a self-defeating standard. If your argument is that condemning things that aren't morally wrong violates the Golden Rule, then I'm with you. But then you beg the question by assuming that sex-having isn't morally wrong.

I would supply you with a prestigious argument for why sex-having--pre-marital, marital, extra-marital--is always and everywhere morally wrong. But it would involve such complex and sophisticated logical moves and complicated words that it would simply be bound to confuse and frustrate.

[xkcd09]

How do students usually pick classes? Is there a tool where you can see past course evaluations on the difficulty/lecture quality/etc. of classes and professors?

[JLin179]

How do students usually pick classes? Is there a tool where you can see past course evaluations on the difficulty/lecture quality/etc. of classes and professors?

There's an online registration system that favors 3Ls over 2Ls and 2Ls over 1Ls for classes you need to bid on. Generally most black-letter law classes are open enrollment and the smaller seminars and clinics are the ones you bid on. There are course evaluations online with numerical rankings for different categories like reading load, professor quality, usefulness of class time, etc. You can really find out a lot about specific professors through word of mouth, though.

[PKozi]

Sir,

You seem to misunderstand my point. Your moral defense of sex-havers relied on the "naturalness" of their conduct. This reason is clearly insufficient to support your conclusion because there is no necessary connection between naturalness and moral acceptability. There are activities (killing people, wearing suggestive clothing, cohabitation) that fall within the set of things we may deem "natural" that we obviously would not want to place within the set of things bearing the label "morally appropriate."

I am not clear on why you think the Golden Rule vindicates the appropriateness of sex-having. I don't want to sex-have with others, so I won't have them sex-have with me. If all moral condemnation necessarily fails according to the Golden Rule, then it seems to be a self-defeating standard. If your argument is that condemning things that aren't morally wrong violates the Golden Rule, then I'm with you. But then you beg the question by assuming that sex-having isn't morally wrong.

I would supply you with a prestigious argument for why sex-having--pre-marital, marital, extra-marital--is always and everywhere morally wrong. But it would involve such complex and sophisticated logical moves and complicated words that it would simply be bound to confuse and frustrate.

0Ls rejoice, insufferable pricks await!