Northwestern 1L/2L/3L/Grads Taking Questions and Challenges Forum

[bk1]

Per ATL:

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[Eugenie Danglars]

Per ATL:

hawt

Better than the makeup compacts that Kirkland Ellis gave out at a women's event.

[gatorapplicant]

this is random and may have been asked earlier, but does the downtown campus have a gym? if so, what are the facilities like?

[D-hops]

this is random and may have been asked earlier, but does the downtown campus have a gym? if so, what are the facilities like?

It does not, for about $200(?) you can join the River East Athletic Club for a full year, which, from my understanding, is a pretty nice facility.

[crumpetsandtea]

this is random and may have been asked earlier, but does the downtown campus have a gym? if so, what are the facilities like?

It does not, for about $200(?) you can join the River East Athletic Club for a full year, which, from my understanding, is a pretty nice facility.

$200 a year? o_o that seems really cheap. If anyone else has insight into the facilities there, it would be great to get some details!

[bk1]

$200 a year? o_o that seems really cheap. If anyone else has insight into the facilities there, it would be great to get some details!

It's subsidized by the school. For normal folks it's something like $60ish/month. I've never used it but I've read the user reviews on Yelp and would say that the reason it gets poor reviews is because normal people who aren't students generally downrate their ratings due to the fact that they are annoyed by all the law/med students.

Most of the apartments around the school have their own gyms and I think the River East Club is the only non-apartment gym within the vicinity of the law school.

[gatorapplicant]

$200 a year? o_o that seems really cheap. If anyone else has insight into the facilities there, it would be great to get some details!

It's subsidized by the school. For normal folks it's something like $60ish/month. I've never used it but I've read the user reviews on Yelp and would say that the reason it gets poor reviews is because normal people who aren't students generally downrate their ratings due to the fact that they are annoyed by all the law/med students.

Most of the apartments around the school have their own gyms and I think the River East Club is the only non-apartment gym within the vicinity of the law school.

good to know, thanks!

[bdubs]

$200 a year? o_o that seems really cheap. If anyone else has insight into the facilities there, it would be great to get some details!

It's generally a nice gym. It was originally independent and upscale, but has since been bought out by chains. It's currently owned by LA Fitness as one of their "signature" gyms.

It has all of the usual gym features (good selection of cardio equip, lots of weight equip.), it also has a fancy lap pool that is filtered with some non-cholrine stuff, a sauna, and a pretty good selection of group classes (https://www.lafitness.com/Pages/ClassSc ... clubid=737).

[kennethellenparcell]

this is random and may have been asked earlier, but does the downtown campus have a gym? if so, what are the facilities like?

It does not, for about $200(?) you can join the River East Athletic Club for a full year, which, from my understanding, is a pretty nice facility.

$200 a year? o_o that seems really cheap. If anyone else has insight into the facilities there, it would be great to get some details!

Crumps, forget gyms. Come running outside with me! Chicago is an amazing city to be a runner. There are tons of running things. CARA is great: http://www.cararuns.org/

[crumpetsandtea]

this is random and may have been asked earlier, but does the downtown campus have a gym? if so, what are the facilities like?

It does not, for about $200(?) you can join the River East Athletic Club for a full year, which, from my understanding, is a pretty nice facility.

$200 a year? o_o that seems really cheap. If anyone else has insight into the facilities there, it would be great to get some details!

Crumps, forget gyms. Come running outside with me! Chicago is an amazing city to be a runner. There are tons of running things. CARA is great: http://www.cararuns.org/

Oh god I'm so not a runner. I've always loathed running (although I'm going to do my first 5K this summer). You might have a hard time convincing me to run consistently. I'd gladly go on bike rides though!

Also, I need a gym membership so I can lift (:

[cactuarX3]

this is random and may have been asked earlier, but does the downtown campus have a gym? if so, what are the facilities like?

It does not, for about $200(?) you can join the River East Athletic Club for a full year, which, from my understanding, is a pretty nice facility.

$200 a year? o_o that seems really cheap. If anyone else has insight into the facilities there, it would be great to get some details!

Crumps, forget gyms. Come running outside with me! Chicago is an amazing city to be a runner. There are tons of running things. CARA is great: http://www.cararuns.org/

did someone say running?! EXCITE!

on a sad note, I have horrible case of runners knee and have a half marathon coming up this sunday. any advice on how to tough through it?

[kennethellenparcell]

Oh god I'm so not a runner. I've always loathed running (although I'm going to do my first 5K this summer). You might have a hard time convincing me to run consistently. I'd gladly go on bike rides though!

Also, I need a gym membership so I can lift (:

Aw. Maybe I'll change your mind with the Shamrock Shuffle next year! But wooo to the bike rides.

[kennethellenparcell]

did someone say running?! EXCITE!

on a sad note, I have horrible case of runners knee and have a half marathon coming up this sunday. any advice on how to tough through it?

Wooo running!! I hate injuries. Is it your first half? (Sorry for clogging up this thread with stuffz that are not questions/challenges guys.) Personally, I wouldn't tough it through but that's because whenever I get an injury if I don't rest it keeps me out of commission for a longer time. I do understand how bad it feels to train for an event and then have a body part just crap out on you.

Also cactuar - you must choose NU.

[cactuarX3]

did someone say running?! EXCITE!

on a sad note, I have horrible case of runners knee and have a half marathon coming up this sunday. any advice on how to tough through it?

Wooo running!! I hate injuries. Is it your first half? (Sorry for clogging up this thread with stuffz that are not questions/challenges guys.) Personally, I wouldn't tough it through but that's because whenever I get an injury if I don't rest it keeps me out of commission for a longer time. I do understand how bad it feels to train for an event and then have a body part just crap out on you.

Also cactuar - you must choose NU.

no, it's not my first, i ran another one 2 weeks ago (which probably was my undoing). yeah, i think i'll tough it out. someone told me to use some shoe inserts and then apply tiger balm to the affected area; might also take some ibuprofen too before the race (jesus christ, i'm going to be more drugged up than Robert Downey Jr.)

I'm definitely leaning towards NU at this point!

[Dany]

flips/bk - favorite food at Quinn? I think I'm going with the mini crabcake.

[bk1]

flips/bk - favorite food at Quinn? I think I'm going with the mini crabcake.

I missed you! The only person I saw was deadluke from across the room.

Food? I'm going with the endless wine. On an opposite note, the weird black dessert things were awful.

[Flips88]

flips/bk - favorite food at Quinn? I think I'm going with the mini crabcake.

crabcakes is TCR. They tasted like yummy crab tater tots.

[Dany]

flips/bk - favorite food at Quinn? I think I'm going with the mini crabcake.

I missed you! The only person I saw was deadluke from across the room.

Food? I'm going with the endless wine. On an opposite note, the weird black dessert things were awful.

Yeah I didn't stay long. I don't want to do litigation and Quinn would never hire me anyway so I ducked out pretty early. Also, did you not go into the kitchen? And the wine I had was great.

[bk1]

Yeah I didn't stay long. I don't want to do litigation and Quinn would never hire me anyway so I ducked out pretty early. Also, did you not go into the kitchen? And the wine I had was great.

I went into the kitchen late (I also ate beforehand). I had assumed that the stuff they were walking around with originally was the same as the kitchen but I was told way late into the thing that I was wrong. The kitchen also became a chatting ground for a bunch of the partners/associates who basically staked out their spot for food (not sure if it was like this in the beginning).

[Flips88]

flips/bk - favorite food at Quinn? I think I'm going with the mini crabcake.

I missed you! The only person I saw was deadluke from across the room.

Food? I'm going with the endless wine. On an opposite note, the weird black dessert things were awful.

Yeah I didn't stay long. I don't want to do litigation and Quinn would never hire me anyway so I ducked out pretty early. Also, did you not go into the kitchen? And the wine I had was great.

I learned within about 15 minutes of being there that 90% of their Chicago office is IP people and the office is incredibly small.

How I felt:

[Dany]

I lol'd at everyone who put the Chicago office as their preference.

[Flips88]

I lol'd at everyone who put the Chicago office as their preference.

I put San Francisco because I knew Chicago was not worth even trying.

[bk1]

I lol'd at everyone who put the Chicago office as their preference.

I put San Francisco because I knew Chicago was not worth even trying.

Copycat.

[Dany]

NYC baby!*

*did not talk to a single Quinn NYC attorney.

[crumpetsandtea]

Oh god I'm so not a runner. I've always loathed running (although I'm going to do my first 5K this summer). You might have a hard time convincing me to run consistently. I'd gladly go on bike rides though!

Also, I need a gym membership so I can lift (:

Aw. Maybe I'll change your mind with the Shamrock Shuffle next year! But wooo to the bike rides.

How long is the Shamrock Shuffle? I'm hoping that once I'm ready for this 5K, I'll be in the habit of running frequently. I think running is a better workout than biking is - I always feel more tired doing a short run than I do after a 12 mile bike ride.