What is a typical class schedule like? Forum

[lillawyer2]

Is it like undergrad? A few classes sometimes every MwF or TTH. You can choose whether it be morning noon or night?

[A. Nony Mouse]

Pretty much, except you don't get any (or much) choice 1L year - your schedule is set for you. (Some schools let you take an elective or two, so you would choose those classes, but I think most don't.)

[lillawyer2]

Pretty much, except you don't get any (or much) choice 1L year - your schedule is set for you. (Some schools let you take an elective or two, so you would choose those classes, but I think most don't.)

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[bacillusanthracis]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

[TheSpanishMain]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

You seem weird.

[bacillusanthracis]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

You seem weird.

I am. But only in the context of the law school bubble.

[star fox]

The classes being nothing like undergrad is flame. It may be different in that aside from your writing class, there aren't assignments due along the way. But it's the same ol' you get a bunch of reading assigned, you talk about the reading for an hour three times a day and so on and then you take a final exam at the end. Maybe the cold calling thing is different but who cares. The issue spotter may be a bit different from your past exam experiences but just read Getting to Maybe and do a lot of practice tests.

[GFox345]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

I am currently in the fourth week of my first semester of law school at a T-14. For what it's worth, I completely disagree with the person above. I was a philosophy major in college, and the law school classes remind me a lot of courses that I took in undergrad - except for the fact that law school is much more lecture-oriented than philosophy courses in college (and with good reason). The length of the classes and schedule is also comparable, but the readings are much smaller and more focused (at least in my case). The largest reading I've had so far has been 30 pages (although it was dense as fuck and took nearly 2.5 hours to read carefully), and that reading ended up taking nearly 6 hours of class time to cover. I've confirmed that this is the largest reading on the entire syllabus in either of my doctrinal classes.


So far, my impression is that the material is actually less "voluminous" than it was in undergrad. From what I've heard from 2Ls and 3Ls and experienced myself, the professors are much more concerned with the idea that you are getting a really firm grasp on the concepts that they do teach. Don't be a retard and memorize the idiosyncratic facts of individual cases. That won't help you. Instead, make sure that you understand the court's reasoning and the legal rules that it draws on so that you can apply this reasoning (with any necessary additions) to a new set of facts. That's exactly what you'll be doing on exams.

Having worked for a year after undergrad, I do not think that law school blows at all. My schedule is completely reasonable, and there's no reason that I'll have to work myself to death in the near future as long as I stay up on the readings, pay attention in class, and start to consolidate the things that I am learning into an outline. So far I've been trying to distill the readings and lectures into some general principles that I can express with a few sentences or questions, and then I go to the professor's office hours if there's anything that I am struggling with. If you do that, you'll be totally fine!

I also would not just go into law school expecting to be miserable the whole time. At least at my school, very few people are miserable. Almost everyone, however, is very hardworking and serious about learning the material. I don't mean to make it sound intimidating. It's really not. Despite all the hype, it really is very similar to more undergrad with the bar set quite a bit higher. I guess I'll see just how high it is set here in two months!

Hope this helps! Don't let them scare you, and good luck!

[GoneSouth]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

I am currently in the fourth week of my first semester of law school at a T-14. For what it's worth, I completely disagree with the person above. I was a philosophy major in college, and the law school classes remind me a lot of courses that I took in undergrad - except for the fact that law school is much more lecture-oriented than philosophy courses in college (and with good reason). The length of the classes and schedule is also comparable, but the readings are much smaller and more focused (at least in my case). The largest reading I've had so far has been 30 pages (although it was dense as fuck and took nearly 2.5 hours to read carefully), and that reading ended up taking nearly 6 hours of class time to cover. I've confirmed that this is the largest reading on the entire syllabus in either of my doctrinal classes.


So far, my impression is that the material is actually less "voluminous" than it was in undergrad. From what I've heard from 2Ls and 3Ls and experienced myself, the professors are much more concerned with the idea that you are getting a really firm grasp on the concepts that they do teach. Don't be a retard and memorize the idiosyncratic facts of individual cases. That won't help you. Instead, make sure that you understand the court's reasoning and the legal rules that it draws on so that you can apply this reasoning (with any necessary additions) to a new set of facts. That's exactly what you'll be doing on exams.

Having worked for a year after undergrad, I do not think that law school blows at all. My schedule is completely reasonable, and there's no reason that I'll have to work myself to death in the near future as long as I stay up on the readings, pay attention in class, and start to consolidate the things that I am learning into an outline. So far I've been trying to distill the readings and lectures into some general principles that I can express with a few sentences or questions, and then I go to the professor's office hours if there's anything that I am struggling with. If you do that, you'll be totally fine!

I also would not just go into law school expecting to be miserable the whole time. At least at my school, very few people are miserable. Almost everyone, however, is very hardworking and serious about learning the material. I don't mean to make it sound intimidating. It's really not. Despite all the hype, it really is very similar to more undergrad with the bar set quite a bit higher. I guess I'll see just how high it is set here in two months!

Hope this helps! Don't let them scare you, and good luck!

There's T14s where you start in the summer?? Huh?

[KMart]

There's T14s where you start in the summer?? Huh?

Must be a Michigan summer starter or NU 2yr accelerated person.

[BaileyJohnson]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

I love law school. I never want to leave. I just finished 1L year and I can honestly say it was the best year of my life. Why? It's difficult to pin point. My best guesses is the people whom which you have so much in common; and to actually finally being able to do actual legal learning instead of miserably boring undergrad courses.

[TheSpanishMain]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

You seem weird.

I am. But only in the context of the law school bubble.

I mean, I'm not one of those people who gushes about how law school is such an amazing intellectual journey or whatever, but c'mon man. It's not a Soviet prison camp.

I love law school. I never want to leave. I just finished 1L year and I can honestly say it was the best year of my life.

You seem weird too.

[First Offense]

But the classes are likely nothing like undergrad unless you were a science major. And even then, the pace is faster and the material more voluminous.

And law school just sucks your first semester. Well, frankly, the whole way blows. I truly detest the experience and despise a good percentage of my law professors. However, it is temporary and what comes after law school is what matters. Keep that in mind if you do decide to attend. It will be over some day and then the oppressively unimaginative and grey prison that is law school will be a memory.

But some people dig it. For the life of me I don't know why. But some people really enjoy ... Whatever about law school. Good luck.

God damn you're one morose motherfucker.

[pancakes3]

lol, wtf? law school is nothing like STEM.

[GFox345]

There's T14s where you start in the summer?? Huh?

Must be a Michigan summer starter or NU 2yr accelerated person.

Yeah, I am a Michigan summer starter.

[lillawyer2]

Thanks you guys. I love reading positive ls experiences.



I was trying to gauge whether it is worth it to commute to ls from my house...if I go to a school in nyc..the commute is 3hrs both ways. I dont want to stay in my nyc apartment with my dad... ugh but maybe ill have too

[Nachoo2019]

Thanks you guys. I love reading positive ls experiences.



I was trying to gauge whether it is worth it to commute to ls from my house...if I go to a school in nyc..the commute is 3hrs both ways. I dont want to stay in my nyc apartment with my dad... ugh but maybe ill have too

3 hours round trip seems doable, but still tough. 6 hours of commuting time per day will be insanely difficult. I wouldn't advise doing that during 1L

[lillawyer2]

Thanks you guys. I love reading positive ls experiences.



I was trying to gauge whether it is worth it to commute to ls from my house...if I go to a school in nyc..the commute is 3hrs both ways. I dont want to stay in my nyc apartment with my dad... ugh but maybe ill have too

3 hours round trip seems doable, but still tough. 6 hours of commuting time per day will be insanely difficult. I wouldn't advise doing that during 1L

Everything is up in the air. I am so excited, which results in several horses before carts. If I get a really good skolly then I wouldn't mind getting an apt and staying close. My dad can move out of the apt by that time and I'll have it to myself. There are many things that can happen between now and then. I'm counting down the days.

[PeanutsNJam]

I liked 1L. Wasn't bad. I mean it was stressful at times, I may be wearing rose colored glasses, and my good grades no doubt color my memory, but it's not horrible if you don't let it be.

Some people get overwhelmed and are miserable whenever they're in the law building or doing anything law school related though so idk.