Many may have read my former post about how our law school freaks out when people leave out the wrong door and threatens to expel them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LawSchool/s/QygcJw3Qty

Yesterday, the university got an emergency alert that there was an active shooter on campus. Today, the dean emailed us about the incident, mentioning during the hysteria some students left out the wrong door, so they better fess up or they will also face the guillotine

She was the first faculty member I felt comfortable building a relationship with because I struggle with networking generally. But she witnessed my work and pursued me. I had just met with her a little over a week ago where she eagerly agreed to be an active participant in helping me secure a clerkship after graduation. She gave me incredibly valuable intel, actionable steps, and a plan to move forward together. Now she’s gone. And I am devastated.

Never thought the sentence "Replevin for a cow" would make me laugh. Funny what sleep deprivation can do to you.

Start practice essays early? Start multiple choice early on Quimbee? Go to office hours? For all the A-ers, what did you do to get your As? For Non-A-ers, what's your regret looking back?

Literally just want to start making some cash. I’m so over this s***.

1L at a T75 regional school here. Anyway, class would go much better if people just participated without being forced to. I'm not saying people should try and jump in during other people's cold calls, but when a question is addressed to the entire class, and its been quiet for 5 seconds, raise your hand, throw something at the wall and see what sticks, as long as its in good faith, who cares! And honestly you'd be surprised at how much more you will learn when you are willing to be wrong, or only partially right about something.

The only exception is criminal law. For whatever reason at my school, that class is full of sharks waiting to snap up anyone who steps out of line against whatever their normative view of criminal law is. (only kind of joking)

Our Civ Pro professor sent an email yesterday that said:

"Tomorrow we'll spend a little more time on personal jurisdiction before moving on."

That was the entire substantive content.

Within ten minutes our section group chat had produced approximately seven competing interpretations.

"Does this mean PJ is heavily tested?"

"Maybe people did badly on the practice question."

"Why would she say a little more time specifically?"

"She wouldn't email us unless it mattered."

Someone went back through the syllabus to calculate whether we were technically behind schedule. Someone else found something the professor said in September and tried to reconcile the two statements like they were conflicting circuit opinions.

Then one person finally wrote, "Guys maybe she just wants to spend a little more time on personal jurisdiction."

Silence.

Obviously absurd. Far too textualist.

I've noticed we do this with everything now. Professor moves an assignment by one day? Exam implications. TA says "focus on the big picture"? Cryptic warning. Career services sends "friendly reminder"? Three people immediately wonder whether they individually screwed something up.

A professor cancelled class because he was sick earlier this semester and someone genuinely asked whether we should still know the cancelled material for the final.

I came to law school expecting to learn how to find hidden meaning in complicated language. I did not expect the collateral damage to be losing the ability to accept the sentence "I am sick, class is cancelled" at face value.

At this point if a professor emailed "Have a nice weekend" I'm fairly certain somebody would ask whether weekends are on the exam.

cleaning out my stuff and found these. does anyone need anything? (cat not included)

I don't have quimbee but if they have something like this I'll call in my free trial.

I really don’t wanna, pls advise

I feel so silly for being so upset because it is literally ungraded. But to me I read it like there are kids in the class who are naturally just doing well already and since it is curved, how on earth could I possibly perform better than them on the real exam?

Did people significantly improve from midterm to final? And how did you will this into existence? Sometimes I highkey feel like its just a skill / IQ gap and some people are just meant to finish at the top.

And do students usually see significant improvements in the second half of the semester / right before the exam?

I probably should have been more on top of this earlier in law school, but, as my posting here shows, I was not.

Anyway, I am currently a 2L at Duke Law and recently became interested in applying for a clerkship.

As a practical matter, though, I'm wondering whether it's even worth raising my interest with my school's clerkship office.

My GPA is not in the top 30% of my class, and I did not write onto a journal. I do feel good about my extracurriculars and my relationships with faculty, but I'm not sure how much those count for in light of my average class standing and lack of journal experience.

So I am asking more broadly, in case anyone has insight: if I were to pursue this interest, would I have a shot at being selected for a clerkship? Or would it be wiser to revisit it once I'm a practicing associate?

Thank you in advance!

I got competant on my midterms (B+-A-) but I feel like since I studied so hard those the last 3 weeks of studying current material has taken a nose dive. For example, I understand the concepts of civ pro rules 11 thru like 37 but I can’t remember what each is for the life of me. I feel like my cup has overflowed.
I’m doing my readings, answering questions in class correctly, but I usually need my notes to answer them. I’m so worried about finals now.

started on laptop and i'm second guessing it. typing makes it way too easy to just transcribe everything the prof says. for people who switched either way, did it change how much you actually remembered when you started outlining

I dunno, I just don’t feel compelled to. I’m at a T6 and my section of ~40 people already has maybe 5-10 people who are usually very proactive about asking and answering questions in class whenever the opportunity arises. It’s not like they prevent anyone else from contributing, actually frequently their questions and contributions are genuinely helpful to my own understanding, but I just feel like I usually don’t have anything to add in the moment. Like rarely do I have something to say the second it’s brought up, it usually takes me a few minutes for things to percolate but by then we’ve moved on.

I usually try to answer the prof’s questions in my head and see if I get them right and if there’s something that’s not clicking I just write it down and email the TAs or go to office hours. I think I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve actively spoken up this semester (outside of being cold called) in all my classes combined.

I’m afraid classmates and/or teachers think im dumb though. Worse, I might actually just be dumb.

Hi everyone! Hoping you all have some advice.

I’m a 1L, and I’m really struggling to make friends. I’m friendly and I talk to a lot of people, but I merely feel like an acquaintance. There’s an established friend group that I get along really with, but I can’t help but feel like I’m kind of on the outs and “intruding” on them.

It’s like I’m not left out but I’m not that included, if that makes sense. Everyone is always nice to me and we joke around and stuff but they’re not texting me outside of school or inviting me to bar review when they all show up together etc etc, so that’s just the frustrating part. I know it isn’t being done maliciously and instead is more subconsciously. I struggled my last 2 years of undergrad with the same thing, so I think that’s why it’s hitting me so hard right now.

I feel like I’m always the first one to reach out to people, but I never get invited to plans anywhere and there’s been multiple occasions where people have made plans right in front of my face. I didn’t know anyone going into this semester, and I’m feeling pretty dejected and hopeless that I won’t be able to find friends. I’m really struggling and feeling like I don’t belong here.

My professor gave us 2 previous exams. Im a 2L and have never built an outline outward from practice exams, has anyone done this? any tips and tricks?