Re: 10K LSAT YO?
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I have found that the two types of people that succeed in law school are those that put in ungodly hours each week and those that find the most efficient way to study. Notice I didn't include "the smartest" in there.
Some people might feel odd tossing the casebook aside, ignoring the professor's reading assignments and instead reading some hornbooks and commercial outlines, but you'll learn the same material and be better prepared for the tests.
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QFT.
You should pay very close attention to everyone who's trying to tell you exactly how miserably absurd law school is. You will not learn anything. You won't find "satisfaction" from any of your "interesting" classes. In fact, it's almost certain that the classes with the most "interesting" subject matter will be the most miserable, since they'll be full of gunners, you won't care anymore because it'll be 2L at LEAST before you take an "interesting" class, and they will certainly be by the book "read these cases and take one exam" courses.
I genuinely struggle every day to justify spending more time in law school. I have a job because of it, so I stay. But god damnit, I want to scream at everyone who encouraged me to go. If the practice of law is anything like the school, I'd rather be a [censored] plumber.
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lol, QFT, thanks for making my morning a little brighter (like a sun scorching a rectangular black hole [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] ):
Listen, Superfluous, you should read a book called A BRUSH WITH THE LAW before you go to law school. You seem to be the type of person who is: a. extremely smart; and, b. enjoys a little bit of the ol' 21st Century "Reneissance Man" style - gambling, some partying, a little philosophy, movies, etc. If that's the case, then yeah, taking a slacker law school approach will afford you plenty of opportunities to [censored] around while landing a potential ~$140K/yr job. However, as far as finding "interesting" people or classes, forget it. I went to GU Law and the people there were mostly disingenuous and not all that interesting at all. Discussing things that I thought would come up - politics, philosophy, film, nuances behind the law that go beyond what's on the final exam - just never happened. As my crim. law professor said, "if you are going to law school to make good friends, you're in the wrong place." For me, in my 20s (or anywhere else), meeting interesting people and making friends are probably the most important things I can think of; you may want to consider this.
Of course, this might not matter to you because you'll be busy playing poker, skipping classes (I promise), and spending money with good friends in CA. Having said that, with your grades and potential LSAT score, you should be aiming for a highly ranked a law school as possible so you could do your 3 month/yr gambling thing and guarantee yourself a high paying job...UCLA or USC might not cut it).
The other thing, Superfluous, is that you should really consider working at a law firm for the summer. With your 3.92 GPA in computer science, I'm sure that firms will be drooling for your mind. If you haven't already found out, undergraduates with math style degrees are serenaded to attend top law schools and firms.
Anyway, read BRUSH WITH THE LAW, it will give you another perspective about how to get by in law school while enjoying your life.
Barry
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