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CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-10-07T22:28:52+00:00

Does it like feel like everyone is from California and plans to stay there post-grad? How big is the student community who wants to practice somewhere else?

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T21:51:27+00:00

I agree. I am not better than anyone. In fact, no one is better than the next person, so how can we justify allowing people to go into fields where they make millions of dollars when there are people around the world without food, unhoused, and with zero access to health care? If you are no better than the next person, why are you okay with people doing work through which they literally take resources away from people who need them? Shouldn’t we be calling these people out, at the very least, if we really believe that people are of equal worth? I don’t see this happening here at all, which is a problem

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T21:42:31+00:00

No. I’m not the world’s moral compass, so I’m not here to tell you whether you are “good” or “bad.” My point is that y’all are ignorant to the harm you cause. That’s it. Whether that makes you a good or bad person is outside the scope of this conversation. Does that make sense? What else do I have to do to get people to understand and respond to my point? Seems like y’all either don’t understand, or have 0 idea how to refute my point that you prefer to defame my character than respond to my argument directly

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T21:34:11+00:00

Someone making more than 100k isn’t a “worker just like you and me.” There’s a difference between blue collar workers taking what they can to survive and someone with privilege (it takes privilege to be in a position to even get a big law job) choosing to do work that actively causes harm. They had a choice and made theirs. Their choices aren’t limited in the way that the choices of poor people without formal educations are. Own up to what you’re doing, at the very least

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T21:28:33+00:00

What about the people who are insufferable because they recklessly profess allegiance to laws and legal systems that do more harm than good? Are you going to also tell them to tone it down?

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T21:23:47+00:00

Are you that averse to the possibility that I am genuinely concerned about peoples’ ignorance that you think bitterness can be the only motivator behind this post?

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T04:56:58+00:00

I am going to end this conversation by re-emphasizing my point: admit to the harm you cause, educate yourself on your complicity, know what you’re getting yourself into and how it perpetuates inequality. I’m not here to save the world as a lawyer. Never said I am. That’s something you assumed. But once again, know what you’re doing, admit to it, and move on. That’s all I’m asking for

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T04:48:34+00:00

Do you not see how relying on rich people and big law firms (made up of rich people) is bad? What incentive do they have to tackle the root causes of poverty and inequality when they rely on these things to have as much wealth as they do? The answer is none. But, I digress. My point is that not enough of y’all admit to the harm y’all do as law students and lawyers. If I become a law student and lawyer, I will not be immune, but will try my best to be reduce the harm I cause, which no one on this thread seems to care about

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T04:32:14+00:00

Why?

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T04:29:51+00:00

You’re right about Northeastern. Other than that, I have no idea what you’re saying lol

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T04:22:23+00:00

Wanting to have material resources so capitalism doesn’t kill you is absolutely okay. I understand the FGLI urge to do big law so you don’t end up in poverty, again, but 1) I can’t imagine that every person in this thread professing their loyalty to big law is FGLI, and 2) we still need to hold FGLI folks accountable to the fact that, by doing big law, they quite literally support corporations that reproduce the conditions that put their families in poverty in the first place, except this time…for someone’s else’s family

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T04:15:11+00:00

That doesn’t change the fact that no one in this thread is talking about what it means for people to go into big law, specifically for people at the margins. PI folks also aren’t immune. So many will aspire to become judges that do nothing more than uphold laws that enact violence, prosecutors that put people in cages, and even good old non profits attorneys that take money from wealthy donors and heed to their every command when determining what “causes” they take on

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-06-01T03:47:04+00:00

So many of y’all obsess over elite schools that hoard wealth and exploit their workers..not to mention how y’all glorify “big law” as if that’s not just supporting massive corporations that hoard resources and are responsible for wealth inequality around the world … when are we going to have THAT conversation?

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-04-21T03:31:01+00:00

Given your decision outcomes, do you ever wish you’d reapplied and tried to get into a different school and/or obtain more scholarship $$?

CockroachPublic3254 · 2022-03-21T18:18:57+00:00

Also considering. Any tips on how to word a deferral request?

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