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disjoe posted:I bet (no data to back this up) most future law students go into undergrad knowing they want to go to law school. Sort of. I knew law school was one of my options, so I figured "well that means I can study what I want" since the other thing I was considering was academia. So my history degree is solely for the reason that I liked it.
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Ugh, I'm feeling so depressed that I think I might be suffereing from some kind of brain chemical inbalance. So throughout 1L year I became really good friends with a classmate and we spent a lot of time studying together. We still were friends until the beginning of the semester when bascially she "ghosted" me, blocked me on all social media, ignored all attempts at contact, etc, out of the blue. Because this was before classes started and I was still travelling all over the place for interviews I didn't really notice for a while, and after I did I was legit concerned for her wellbeing because it seemed like she just dropped off the face of the earth. I eventually got around to inquiring with some mutual aquaintances and she's fine, and still goes to the same school and everything, which makes the whole ghosting thing a bit weird because we were still going to run into each other in the hallways. SO anyway we still do obviously pass each ther in the hallways and she just barely acknowledges me or just ignores me entirely, and I do the same to her - being married I kind of didn't want to seem to pushy or inquisitive about it, plus I was kind of pissed that this was happening even though I don't really know why. But inside it's pretty painful for me. I don't make friends easily and when I do I try really hard to be the best friend I can because I don't want to lose them, and losing a friend is just gut wrenching in a way I can't really explain. Generally being away from my family and having a lot of personal poo poo going on together with being completely overloaded academically is just killing me inside already and this poo poo doesn't help. I feel like I should go and try to make new friends but school is so busy that I just can't justify the time commitment and my few friends from 1L are in different classes now.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:15
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disjoe posted:I bet (no data to back this up) most future law students go into undergrad knowing they want to go to law school. Anecdotally, these are not true. People major in political science and history because they like those things (their previous experience being AP U.S. History or Government). Most people who express an interest in law school have no idea what's involved, it's just a job they've heard of that sounds like an extension of the things they liked in their social science major. Source: I have worked with undergrads at Big Ten institutions nearly my entire adult life.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:20
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Throatwarbler posted:Ugh, I'm feeling so depressed that I think I might be suffereing from some kind of brain chemical inbalance. Getting to the bottom of her cold shoulder will be far more difficult than making new friends. Show up to your current classes early, make small talk to the people sitting next to you, eventually ask if they want to get together to study. Or join some service org that the law school has. Seriously, going through law school alone is far far harder than with friends to complain about bullshit with, and your wife will get tired of her being the exclusive outlet for law school BS. You're at WashUStL right? Do they have some sport they're good at that people at the law school go to? Please tell me you didn't ask the girl if she's a member of an obscure Jewish sect.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:21
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Pook Good Mook posted:
Actually, please tell us if that's the case and also post the email about it of you have one.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:25
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I may get to see the inside of a courtroom sooner than expected as I just received a notice of impending prosecution. Yaay.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:26
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Throatwarbler posted:Ugh, I'm feeling so depressed that I think I might be suffereing from some kind of brain chemical inbalance. Paging Toona.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:26
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Not enough pharmacy chat in this thread.
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Oct 13, 2017 17:53
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has a wife, pining for a girl who ghosted him, it's amazing
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Oct 13, 2017 17:55
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Oct 13, 2017 17:59
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mastershakeman posted:has a wife, pining for a girl who ghosted him, it's amazing You'd think someone who attends a private Midwestern law school outside the T14 and vacations in Dubai would be better adjusted.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:00
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Now that toona has become a jaded 3L latching onto being a public defender, the thread's dramatic arc is provided by throatwarbler and the English who just started online law school at the age of 40 and is being prosecuted for something.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:08
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Meanwhile i figured out how to make a 15"+ burrito that weighs 4-5 lbs. Gonna set up a challenge that if you can eat it in under 30 minutes you get a gift card to the smoke shop i park in front of.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:10
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Now that toona has become a jaded 3L latching onto being a public defender, the thread's dramatic arc is provided by throatwarbler and the English who just started online law school at the age of 40 and is being prosecuted for something. I feel like I underserved this thread when my biggest drama in law school for the past three years was not getting offered a job after my second summer. Turned out to be the best thing they could have done for me.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:10
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:the English who just started online law school at the age of 40 and is being prosecuted for something. I didn't even manage a week without running afoul of the law. (it's for something unrelated to bad schooling decisions)
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Oct 13, 2017 18:14
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Mr. Nice! posted:Meanwhile i figured out how to make a 15"+ burrito that weighs 4-5 lbs. Gonna set up a challenge that if you can eat it in under 30 minutes you get a gift card to the smoke shop i park in front of. how much of that weight is meat. this is important
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Oct 13, 2017 19:09
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Throatwarbler posted:Ugh, I'm feeling so depressed that I think I might be suffereing from some kind of brain chemical inbalance. You can only use so many excuses as to why you haven’t filed the divorce complaint yet before they get pissed.
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Oct 13, 2017 19:33
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mastershakeman posted:how much of that weight is meat. this is important I’m more curious about the doughty tortilla(s) that will hold this monstrosity together.
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Oct 13, 2017 19:39
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Throatwarbler posted:I don't make friends easily and when I do I try really hard to be the best friend I can because I don't want to lose them, and losing a friend is just gut wrenching in a way I can't really explain. I'm going to go ahead and assume that you channelled your loneliness and depression into a powerful beam of crippling insecurity and clinginess at this poor girl, and that she tolerated it out of politeness for a year and then couldn't take it anymore. And/or she assumed you were trying to take the relationship in a direction she had no interest in. Forgive me for being blunt, but your past posts in this thread haven't exactly shown you to be someone with a solid grasp of what is socially acceptable in the new culture/society you find yourself. I tended to believe that people don't go to law school to make lifelong friends. That's what highschool and undergrad are for. Trying to foster deep meaningful relationships where you can open up about their depression and loneliness in a study group writing Torts CANs is probably not going to work out. In other words: make friends outside of law school.
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Oct 13, 2017 19:59
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Tipps posted:I'm going to go ahead and assume that you channelled your loneliness and depression into a powerful beam of crippling insecurity and clinginess at this poor girl, and that she tolerated it out of politeness for a year and then couldn't take it anymore. And/or she assumed you were trying to take the relationship in a direction she had no interest in. Alternatively, if you really want friends, do what I did and get on a moot court team, get a paid vacation to a large city for a few days, compete for a few hours, and drink yourself dumb with other law students happy for the release.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:00
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Pook Good Mook posted:Alternatively, if you really want friends, do what I did and get on a moot court team, get a paid vacation to a large city for a few days, compete for a few hours, and drink yourself dumb with other law students happy for the release. Find your second wife.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:06
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Drop out and go into tech. Seriously I'm on my honeymoon and I'm like "Honey I gotta do my emails."
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Oct 13, 2017 20:09
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CaptainScraps posted:Drop out and go into tech. I'm in government IT. I've never worked a minute of overtime. I put in about 2-3 hours of actual work a day. Even with WAY too much debt from law school, I own a house, have two cars, and will be able to put my kids through college. Counting federal holidays, annual leave, and sick leave, I get 34.25 days off a year. I'm only in the office one day a week. I could make more outside of government, but hey, I'm lazy.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:15
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Tipps posted:I tended to believe that people don't go to law school to make lifelong friends. That's what highschool and undergrad are for. Trying to foster deep meaningful relationships where you can open up about their depression and loneliness in a study group writing Torts CANs is probably not going to work out. While this is true, I do think that people forge pretty strong friendships, especially in 1L year among your section. Some of my best friends in the world are people from my 1L section and my study group.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:17
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Pook Good Mook posted:Alternatively, if you really want friends, do what I did and get on a moot court team, get a paid vacation to a large city for a few days, compete for a few hours, and drink yourself dumb with other law students happy for the release. I signed up for the Moot Court competition despite having zero interest in litigation and swearing up and down to my employer next summer than all I wanted to do was transactions because one of my best friends from 1L is doing it and invited me to partner up. It absolutely sucks rear end and I hate every minute of it but it's better to be hating it with your friends.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:22
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Throatwarbler posted:I signed up for the Moot Court competition despite having zero interest in litigation and swearing up and down to my employer next summer than all I wanted to do was transactions because one of my best friends from 1L is doing it and invited me to partner up. It absolutely sucks rear end and I hate every minute of it but it's better to be hating it with your friends. That's the spirit
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Oct 13, 2017 20:25
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Oct 13, 2017 20:35
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It stays together because it's assembled with four tortillas that have all been lightly toasted with layers of cheese between them melting it together. A good hunk of the weight of the first one was meat because the people i was making it for didn't want any onions/pico/guac. So the inaugural megarito was black beans, refried beans, seasoned ground beef, queso, shredded cheese, lettuce, salsa, sour cream, and a little fire sauce.   It was solid as any burrito should be when rolled and could support it's own weight thanks to my double hulled design. Edit: the handle on my cold table is around 5" long for size comparison.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:37
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Thread over. That is the best post ever and you need to move to my state so I can eat one of those every day and die of obesity and or heart attack sooner than I already will. Except you need to do a shredded barbacoa beef instead of ground beef.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:45
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Mr. Nice! posted:It stays together because it's assembled with four tortillas that have all been lightly toasted with layers of cheese between them melting it together. oh hell yes ship one of those bad boys to me I can handle it
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Oct 13, 2017 20:49
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CaptainScraps posted:I don't understand what a transactional lawyer actually does. Find 'i's to dot, 't's to cross and try to sneak in undotted 'i's and uncrossed 't's for the other side to miss. I will take your carnitas to the next level in exchange for burritos
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Arcturas posted:Thread over. That is the best post ever and you need to move to my state so I can eat one of those every day and die of obesity and or heart attack sooner than I already will. I've got baller as gently caress carnitas, too.
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Oct 13, 2017 21:01
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CaptainScraps posted:I don't understand what a transactional lawyer actually does. Mostly bark at our paralegals with requests for charter documents
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Oct 13, 2017 21:19
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CaptainScraps posted:I don't understand what a transactional lawyer actually does. they're like a programmer but for contracts you tell them you want to buy a company, they write a contract, and then in ten years it turns out they missed a semicolon and whoops you dont actually own anything
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Oct 13, 2017 21:30
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Mr. Nice! posted:I've got baller as gently caress carnitas, too. Tragically I don't eat pork. Can you do carnitas with other animals? (I ask because there is a local place that makes fantastic lamb bacon. So I have finally experienced the joy of eating a BLT.)
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Oct 13, 2017 22:12
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I've made shredded beef in that style but i'm not 100% sure what to call it.
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Oct 13, 2017 22:25
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What's with these married adults feeling like they need to have "friends" and a "social life"?
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Oct 13, 2017 22:44
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Tokelau All Star posted:What's with these married adults feeling like they need to have "friends" and a "social life"? You're right, tacos are superior to both
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Pook Good Mook posted:Alternatively, if you really want friends, do what I did and get on a moot court team, get a paid vacation to a large city for a few days, compete for a few hours, and drink yourself dumb with other law students happy for the release. I’m doing this next week in scenic Detroit.
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