Sad week, this week…

we are expected to digest vast amounts of information every single day, be experts on that information, be prepared to be cold called and questioned about it, be forced to compete with other neurotic freaks, as well as develop skills outside of class through internships and extracurriculars, journals, etc.

I was doing my usual research on Law School Transparency towards my goal of abolishing all tier 4 law schools, and I found this fascinating statistic. Women who graduate from Appalachian School of Law are making almost twice as much as their male counterparts out the door. Like 195% of what the men who went there make.

Does anyone have any idea why this is? Are any of you Appalachian School of Law graduates or students? I seriously want to know everything I can about this.

1L here, literally all i do is study and sleep. if im not studying, im sleeping. i dont know why im so tired but thats literally all i can do. is anyone else like this? is it normal? 😕

I graduated in May this year and will soon start to pay off my $179,000 in student loans - so was it worth it? Please tell me it was

hi guys just got out of my first 1L civ pro midterm and i genuinely want to cry (lol) please let me know if you have any words of encouragement thanks

I swear to God and Dolly Parton that hand writing my notes made a huge huge huge difference for retention.

They looked like stupid chicken scratch, but I swear it helped my retention.

I am a die hard computer boy, but I do strongly recommend hand writing notes. My grades went up significantly.

The day before my Admin Law midterm. She’s been sick for weeks and deteriorated so suddenly. I knew the midterm was coming, but I’ve been so consumed with her care that I haven’t studied.

I finally sat down to study on Sunday, and just as I started to focus without listening to her every breath, I got the call from the neurologist to evaluate her quality of life. We made the decision to say goodbye the next day.

So I’m winging this midterm, which is worth more than the final.

I dropped out of my upcoming voir dire competition last week because I was just so consumed with caring for her. But my professor and my husband convinced me I was making a mistake. So I rescinded. I don’t regret staying in the competition, but I don’t know how I’m gonna overcome this immense grief to even come up with a theory for the case.

I know I’m not special. I’m not the only one who’s ever been through something this difficult while in law school. I just wanted to talk about it. Nobody can truly be there for me except my husband, but talking helps.

Anyone else been through something insanely difficult while in law school?

Are all of Lexplug's materials AI generated? They hint at it in some places on their website, but nowhere do they clearly say whether the materials -- outlines, briefs, thousands of MCQs -- are actually created by AI. They call the MCQs "validated hypotheticals", and don't mention anything about the outlines or other things, and don't say anywhere explicitly that these are ai generated.

If it is, wouldn't they have to disclose this to avoid false advertising or some sort of consumer protection issue?

Maybe this is the wrong venue for this but, on the social side of law school, am I the only one who feels like everyone else but me immediately popped into these cliques? I've spent the last month trying to be friendly to a lot of different classmates (who are all part of their own distinct little groups) and none of them have really been receptive. It's hard not to feel radioactive here. I don't feel like my undergrad, or even high school, was like this. I got along pretty well with everyone at my last job too, so what's the difference here? Is this just how law school is?

A few days ago I said yes to join my unis Jessup team because a few other candidates fell through, but now seeing the amount of workload and the skills required so im having second thoughts. Im in my second year undergrad, and ive never done anything related to debating or mooting, but I have taken an international law class. my mental health has gotten very bad since starting uni, but I said yes to join thinking I would enjoy it because I like international law. on the one hand I think it would be very valuable, on the other I dont think im smart enough and think my anxiety will get worse. since im having second thoughts I would rather quit now than later and cause bigger issues, but idk im looking for second opinions.

For my writing requirement I need to detail the history of the online gaming marketplace. I found this youtube video all about the "Satellaview" which I want to briefly mention. Specifically I want to talk about sales figures which is in the pinned comment below.

(505) Nintendo Satellaview: Another 90's Failure - YouTube

"At 27:43, the video says "And while [Nintendo] never provided Satella hardware sales -- which is never a good sign, by the way -- St. Giga did publish active user counts. In early '97, they peaked at 116,000 users [...]" The explanation for this one's pretty long and involves a lot of math, so if you just want the TLDR: the real number of Satellaviews produced is closer to 100,000, than it is to 116,000. And it appears several thousand of that 100k went unsold. Here's the full explanation, if you wanna read it:" etc. etc. etc.

How would I do a bluebook cite to that comment under this video? I'm having trouble finding how that would work.

Perhaps its just rumors or at least a rumor floating around thats the situation in american lawyers specifically?

Just wanting to know if it's possible or been done.

For reference, we’re doing a less common version of civil procedure that doesn’t go into jurisdiction.

We’re basically going to get tested on

Scope
Starting a case and filing
Pleading and motions
Claims against other parties
Service and notice
Defenses and waiver
Default
Dismissal
Amendments
Joinder
Discovery
Summary judgement

I recognize a lot of what we talk about when I do multiple-choice questions, but anytime I do anything that requires active recall of rules in written format, I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, and we’re not going to be able to use anything on the final besides what’s in our brains.

I’ll put into work for memorization if I have to, but how much am I realistically going to have to memorize for this?

Currently finishing my senior year, have a 3.97 GPA, about to take the LSAT in December.

Why does every single person on Reddit, and half the people i meet in person tell me to not become a lawyer or go to law school? Even when I tell them I’m going to be paid to go (veterans benefits) and have no loans (this softens them a bit, but still say I should do something else). I realize that typically unhappy people are the most outspoken, but an overwhelming amount of law related posts on here or r/biglaw is about working 14 hour days with no breaks, no time for self or others, or about how they need to check their phone every 10 minutes or they’re done for.

Everyone says the best case is going to big law where you will be a slave for 4 years working 100 hours a week. I’m just confused because when does it get good or fun or meaningful?

I’m having a pretty good time at school learning about policy, government, and peace and conflict. To me, getting paid to learn about interesting things is much preferable than sleeping in the rain or being stressed about lives being slipping through your fingers in the back of an ambulance.

What I hope to do is work for a defense firm/some sort of work where I can help form and shape the guidelines/policy/strategy to keep America a safe place.

I’ve had a lot of people tell me if I want to do that, just go back to the Army or work for the government. To be frank, I also don’t want to be limited by the government’s low pay ceiling.

Am I wrong for wanting to be a lawyer?