Should I embark upon the road to law school? Forum

[Clearly]

Thank you all for your remarks. I will return to the forum after I have obtained an LSAT score.

That's great, but if you don't stop talking like a douche robot, I'm not gonna help you when you do.

I am sure this will just end his/her life, that some guy from the internet who likes to put others down for being eccentric and liking the classics won't help him. omggggg Clearly from TLS won't help me with my apppps, Boo hoo.

I get that his post was, umm, unique, but to sit here and put him/her down is a real cunt move.

Best of luck w/ the LSAT OP and get ready- this was a good elucidation of some of the narcissistic, self important losers you may come across in law school. You just have to get a good laugh at how pathetic it is that their own self worth comes from trying to put others down.

Op knows I'm kidding with him, you see I spent much of this thread offering him actual advice before addressing the fact that talking like this wouldn't work well in law school, or at oci. I'd take actual advice and a friendly jab (which is also solid advice) over some guy showing up to criticize a third party any day.

[BigZuck]

Thank you all for your remarks. I will return to the forum after I have obtained an LSAT score.

That's great, but if you don't stop talking like a douche robot, I'm not gonna help you when you do.

I am sure this will just end his/her life, that some guy from the internet who likes to put others down for being eccentric and liking the classics won't help him. omggggg Clearly from TLS won't help me with my apppps, Boo hoo.

I get that his post was, umm, unique, but to sit here and put him/her down is a real cunt move.

Best of luck w/ the LSAT OP and get ready- this was a good elucidation of some of the narcissistic, self important losers you may come across in law school. You just have to get a good laugh at how pathetic it is that their own self worth comes from trying to put others down.

Nah, people really shouldn't talk or write like that, they won't get very far academically and no one will want to talk to them because everyone will think they're weird

[asdfdfdfadfas]

Thank you all for your remarks. I will return to the forum after I have obtained an LSAT score.

That's great, but if you don't stop talking like a douche robot, I'm not gonna help you when you do.

I am sure this will just end his/her life, that some guy from the internet who likes to put others down for being eccentric and liking the classics won't help him. omggggg Clearly from TLS won't help me with my apppps, Boo hoo.

I get that his post was, umm, unique, but to sit here and put him/her down is a real cunt move.

Best of luck w/ the LSAT OP and get ready- this was a good elucidation of some of the narcissistic, self important losers you may come across in law school. You just have to get a good laugh at how pathetic it is that their own self worth comes from trying to put others down.

Op knows I'm kidding with him, you see I spent much of this thread offering him actual advice before addressing the fact that talking like this wouldn't work well in law school, or at oci. I'd take actual advice and a friendly jab (which is also solid advice) over some guy showing up to criticize a third party any day.

Well I was just kidding about you being narcissistic and self important, couldn't you tell? Come on, just a friendly jab, lighten up!

Anyways, I am not going to sit here and bicker back and forth with you but my point was you can certainly give him the advice of changing his verbiage without being a dick about it.

I'd offer advice but everything I think has already been said- mainly, take the LSAT then come back.

[jbagelboy]

Unless you're going to a top top school (think Harvard/Yale) you're probably not going to be messing with the type of "international law" you seem to be interested in. Maybe look into doing policy work

People with OPs background (service, significant international experience, multiple foreign languages) are the types that succeed on the job market for genuine public international law positions. It's not really just about school. TLS always make too big a stink about a handful of schools. The reality is that you have to be committed and have more than a passing interest and experience in your field to do anything beyond biglaw. The school just determines the nature of institutional support you will receive, and places like Yale, Columbia, and Berkeley offer more for international law than lower ranked programs.

[Tls2016]

Unless you're going to a top top school (think Harvard/Yale) you're probably not going to be messing with the type of "international law" you seem to be interested in. Maybe look into doing policy work

People with OPs background (service, significant international experience, multiple foreign languages) are the types that succeed on the job market for genuine public international law positions. It's not really just about school. TLS always make too big a stink about a handful of schools. The reality is that you have to be committed and have more than a passing interest and experience in your field to do anything beyond biglaw. The school just determines the nature of institutional support you will receive, and places like Yale, Columbia, and Berkeley offer more for international law than lower ranked programs.

Great point. OP is not the typical K-JD who wants to go to American at sticker to prosecute war crimes at The Hague.

[Clearly]

You may have missed my first post on the subject. Unedited.

Also, and I apologize for the frankness here, but using a wide vocabulary doesn't keep the mind sharp, it just makes you sound like a tool. Now I'm not saying you're a tool by any means, I'm sure you're great, I'm just politely informing you that if this were real life, and you spoke (or wrote) like this day to day, I'd walk away and think "wow, that guy is a tool".

I can't say I feel bad about this. I certainly don't think this is me being a narcissist or a dick about it. This polite post and the OPs continued use of douche robot tone is what prompted the edgier but still pretty light hearted follow up post...

[fliptrip]

Let me offer my completely unsolicited two cents on this vocabulary/writing issue.

I've found that when folks needlessly unleash an ornate and poorly deployed vocabulary (my issue is less that the words are used, it's that they are used so incorrectly), it is usually a sign of them trying to sound more intelligent. So, there's no reason for folks not to just drop a hint or two that it's not working and it's not necessary. The person who mentioned that OP should definitely not write this way in his PS was definitely providing helpful advice.

At the same time, just as OP is writing thinking he's being one thing, when in actuality it's coming across quite differently, Clearly, I grant that your intention was to be polite and light hearted, especially in your first post, but in reading what you wrote, it would be hard call it polite or light hearted. I quoted you and piled on, so I don't think I was very polite either. I don't think there's any ill intention, though.

I also read that you don't really care, which is fine and understandable. But, if we are going to dish out criticism around here, we ought to be willing to take it.

[krads153]

Let me offer my completely unsolicited two cents on this vocabulary/writing issue.

I've found that when folks needlessly unleash an ornate and poorly deployed vocabulary (my issue is less that the words are used, it's that they are used so incorrectly), it is usually a sign of them trying to sound more intelligent. So, there's no reason for folks not to just drop a hint or two that it's not working and it's not necessary. The person who mentioned that OP should definitely not write this way in his PS was definitely providing helpful advice.

Aren't they usually ESL? OP's posts make it seem like he was "formally trained in English" abroad...

[Iam3hunna]

Embark only on what art thou is worthy of being embarked upon - Dr. 3hunna

[fliptrip]

Embark only on what art thou is worthy of being embarked upon - Dr. 3hunna

Guy gets into Harvard and all the sudden he's fuckin' Shakespeare. lol

[Iam3hunna]

Guy gets into Harvard and all the sudden he's fuckin' Shakespeare. lol

Please, Shakespeare would have been waitlisted

[jrass]

You survived the marine core talking like that? Embark, enumerate, procure?

No, this is something I adopted after my time in the service. I like to use a wide range of vocabulary to keep the mind sharp. It is just a personal choice. I am not trying to be ostentatious. I am sorry if it appears as such.

It's nothing to be sorry about, but you're going to be judged on your ability to make complex concepts seem simple, not vice versa. Other lawyers aren't going to be standing there with a toothpick scratching the plaque off their one tooth hollerin, "Der Jasper, that there law boy done used that there awful big wawd. That boy ayy done a poet."