#regrets Help Forum

[artremield]

Hey guys I kind of screwed myself so I would appreciate any advice. My
freshman year I hit my teacher with a plastic coffee mug. The coffee
mug was empty but he still didn't like it. Anyway, he threatened to
file charges but instead just told the dean of student affairs and the
dean then wrote me up for a disciplinarian suspension of 1 week. I
testified to the student government appeals process and said that the
teacher was provoking me and harassing me by prodding me to tell him
if I had used an unreliable source. So I decided he was crossing my
boundaries, and I hit him. Under tort law, if you only perceive a
physical threat, the offender has committed assault. I was only
reacting to his assault by hitting him.



ANYWAY, it didn't end up working out and now I have to address this to
a school whom I got accepted to and didn't report it to. They received
some kind of letter or record? From the dean of my university that had
this incident on there. What the heck do I do?

[SFrost]

Uh it looks like you lied on your application and got caught? Check the wording of the C/F part of your application. It's likely that this clearly falls under the disclosure category.

[buddingjd]

this is dumb

[monsterman]

Uh it looks like you lied on your application and got caught? Check the wording of the C/F part of your application. It's likely that this clearly falls under the disclosure category.

This. Almost all apps ask to disclose

[Bildungsroman]

obvious troll is obvious.

[Trout et al]

lol at the tort law application thrown in there. I'm sure you "perceived" that your prof. was going to hit you at any moment.

[guano]

What the heck do I do?

Look for another career?

[Mack.Hambleton]

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[phillywc]

Needs more hashtags.

[kkdk]

You could become a super-villain...The Mugger.

[Mack.Hambleton]

You could become a super-villain...The Mugger.

lel

[SnakySalmon]

I recommend you start throwing things at Adcomms and see if it helps.

[Mauve.Dino]

That's nothing. I hit my professor with a 12-cup Keurig coffee maker.

#Lightweight

[BPlaura]

I recommend you start throwing things at Adcomms and see if it helps.

Just poking my head in here to say that this post literally made me LOL at my desk. Thank you, SnakySalmon, for brightening my Monday morning.

The coffee mug was empty but he still didn't like it.

No kidding....

Anyway, sounds like your only option is to explain it to the school and see what happens. Don't dig yourself into a deeper hole by telling more lies. And to anyone else reading, this is why you ALWAYS disclose anything that you even suspect ought to be disclosed! Hiding it can (and probably will) really come back and bite you.

[ChuggaChuggaChooChoo]

I recommend you start throwing things at Adcomms and see if it helps.

[Big Dog]

the
teacher was provoking me and harassing me by prodding me to tell him
if I had used an unreliable source.

The teacher was "prodding" you to see if you incorrectly used a source for a class assignment?

Yeah, that's a real (bodily) threat to your person. I can see why you took swift action and acted out. Hopefully, you are in a 'Stand your Ground' state!

[encore1101]

stick a fork in him, this turkey's done

in all seriousness, unless your school is so desperate for students that they're willing to overlook this omission, i can't imagine a scenario where you can talk yourself out of this. not only did you throw something at a professor, for a self-proclaimed violation of your personal boundaries, you neglected to mention it on your application, which means:

a) you're too incompetent to know what "disclose everything" means, in which case you shouldn't go to law school; or
b) you thought this wouldn't be something law school adcomms would care about, which is pretty silly; or
c) you purposefully omitted it, because you knew it would influence their decision.

additionally, you resorted to physical "violence" at a professor because he was "provoking and prodding" you? do yourself a favor and don't do law; professors, senior associates, partners, and judges are not going to handle you with kid gloves. shit's gonna get more real than that.

[JazzieShizzle]

additionally, you resorted to physical "violence" at a professor because he was "provoking and prodding" you? do yourself a favor and don't do law

I disagree. Throwing things at your opposition is what the practice of law is all about. They don't call it an "adversarial system" for nothing.

[CanadianWolf]

This is why styrofoam coffee cups are still in use.

[encore1101]

additionally, you resorted to physical "violence" at a professor because he was "provoking and prodding" you? do yourself a favor and don't do law

I disagree. Throwing things at your opposition is what the practice of law is all about. They don't call it an "adversarial system" for nothing.

But you should be aiming to knock the other person out, at least. Don't waste time throwing flimsy things like plastic coffee mugs.

Also, rereading the OP, did you actually throw the mug or did you pick it up and strike him with it?

[wealtheow]

pretty sure this is fairly standard in court

[papercut]

Wow. This is hilarious.

You could always change your name and go to business school.

[mushybrain]

I think my favorite part of this is that I doubt there are many applicants this year who hit their professors with coffee mugs and then lied about it, so if the adcomm types from the school in question wandered on here they'd find OP asking for advice about how to handle hitting his professor with a coffee mug and then not reporting it, in addition to the true gem that is the tort theory.

[Crowing]

pretty sure this is fairly standard in court

If being a convicted murderer isn't a problem OP has nothing to worry about

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