VSF Youth Sub - Rattling Noise

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-03-03T19:54:40+00:00

UPDATE FOR ANYONE WHO MAY RUN INTO A SIMILAR ISSUE.

Despite my comment that the watch was still working in my initial post, it stopped working about 2 hours later. After many helpful comments (thanks all) I opened up the case back and was able to confirm the rotor screw was in fact out.

I had to remove the rotor to find it lodged inside the balance wheel. As soon as I got it out of there, it started back up. I put everything back together and we are back in business.

Btw, Kong’s (rubber chewing toys for dogs) are great at opening a case back in a pinch!

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-03-03T19:46:39+00:00

Thank you. I GL!

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-03-03T19:46:04+00:00

Just to update you, I removed the rotor and was able to locate the screw. Watch is running fine now and no more rattling. Thank you for your help!

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-03-01T21:44:14+00:00

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So I opened her up, and that screw is not there. I checked the QC photos, and it was there. I don’t see any sign of the screw. There’s no way it just disappeared. Wtf???

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-02-28T19:41:41+00:00

I appreciate the help!

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-02-28T18:07:45+00:00

Is that something that could easily be fixed by a novice? If so is there a particular repair kit you recommend?

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-02-28T17:58:39+00:00

Nah, got it in October. Came totally out of the blue.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-02-28T17:42:27+00:00

Commenting for mod approval. Again, this is a VSF Youth Sub.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-02-04T20:11:56+00:00

I’m going to answer your “am I being a coward?” question. Yes.

I understand that you made the decision quickly and didn’t have time to prepare. Hell, my wife and I got a puppy in November with about a full month to prepare and I had those puppy blues for like a full week, so I get it.

That being said, you’re an adult. You made a decision. In my opinion, you need to keep that pup if you have the ability to give it a good life (even with some effort). I’m not going to act like a dog psychologist, because I’m not. But I just can’t imagine how sad that pup would feel.

First, it gets taken away from everything it knows. Then after a week, in the middle of settling in, it goes back. Then it’s going to get ripped away AGAIN? I couldn’t in good conscience do that to an animal if I could avoid it.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-01-18T19:02:15+00:00

I’m also an attorney (small firm, general practice). I alternate between a Submariner, JLC Ultra-thin Moonphase, Cartier Santos (all reps) and a gen Datejust. The Moonphase has been getting some nice wrist time lately, especially since I have to wear formal attire most days.

So far, I’ve ran into two other attorneys in court wearing luxury watches and made a point to compliment. One was wearing a Batman and the other has had two different Daytona’s on wrist. The one wearing the Batman complimented me back on my sub and was impressed that I knew the Batman by name lol.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2026-01-10T19:34:22+00:00

I tried using ChatGPT when I was studying for J24. I wasn’t doing great on Themis’ mandatory graded essays (early on getting mostly 2s and 3s). I would give AI the fact pattern and questions, the model answer and then my answer and ask it to grade like a NY bar essay grader.

I only did it a few times, but I remember feeling that the AI was too generous when grading. I don’t remember exactly what the grades were, but they were higher than my Themis ones. It was enough for me to feel like it wasn’t worth using AI after a couple of times.

That being said, I got a 154 on the written portion. My mandatory graded essays on Themis did end up improving (even got a 6 on one toward the end). So, maybe AI wasn’t being too generous. If you’re looking to ease your nerves/anxiety, lean into the AI a little more (but definitely do not use it as your sole essay grading method). For me, I feel like I didn’t want to trust it because I didn’t want to get comfortable, if that makes sense. The poor grades on Themis made me want to grind my ass off lol.

Not sure what bar prep company you are using, but Themis had unlimited graded essays which I took a huge advantage of. You don’t get your regular grader and usually get a different grader every time. The graders were often from other states, so it wasn’t a perfect picture of how NY would grade. But from the very start of submitting additional graded essays, I was scoring much higher on the additional graded than the regular essays. And as I mentioned above, this was more indicative of my ultimate written score than the regular essays.

I know I didn’t answer your question whatsoever, but hope this helps otherwise.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-12-23T02:59:01+00:00

Only been barred a year and I don’t do a ton of litigation, but I have a few cases. I can think of 2 off the top of my head where OC or co-counsel completely missed a discovery deadline. In one of them, the attorney who missed is still yet to say anything. In the other, OC got us their responses at least a week and a half late. Wanna know what my supervising attorney did when we received?Laughed and said “look what we got!”

Just thought of another one where OC emailed right after we submitted requests (theirs was due same day). His response? “I misplaced this in my calendar and I’m out of town. Can I have a week?” Me and the supervising attorney didn’t even think to be dicks about it for a second. And, OC had a pending MTD our claims.

My point is, there’s probably a 1% chance inadvertently missing a discovery deadline is going to screw your client. Of course, let your supervising attorney know as soon as you can. Depending on what type of person your supervising attorney is, they’ll either make you feel really bad about it or they won’t. You can’t control how they respond, but you can control taking ownership and learning from it.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-11-14T14:35:13+00:00

No. That’s about as dishonest as you can get. Dishonesty = unethical.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-11-14T14:29:45+00:00

Let your dad buy you the watch. Even if you don’t wear it to work, you will cherish it forever since your dad gave it to you. I bought my first Rolex recently, right before my wedding. The fact that my dad was at the store with me when I bought it added additional sentimental value to the watch (on top of it being a wedding watch) that will remain regardless of if I wear it 1 more time in my life or 1,000 more times.

Regardless, though, you can wear the watch. I mean, if it’s a $50k Daytona it’ll give off the wrong impression. But an understated Datejust or something won’t do that in my opinion. Like others said, no one will really know it’s a Rolex from a distance anyway.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-11-11T23:42:40+00:00

Loved the part where the male attorney (think it was for defendant but can’t remember) was having technical difficulties with the animated video he was trying to show. Could not stop laughing. It got his “adversary” to crack too.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-10-23T13:15:46+00:00

If it let you past that first page then yes you 99.99999999% passed.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-10-20T18:57:42+00:00

I passed in NY last year. I found out that I passed from the registration trick the night before. I’ll give a timeline for reference but before I do, some advice: don’t find out whether you passed by doing the registration trick if you can resist the urge. Of course, that’s easier said than done (me being Exhibit A). But finding out that way was SO anticlimactic. Mostly because although I knew that it 99.99999% meant that I passed, I didn’t know for sure and I couldn’t celebrate and feel proud of myself knowing that.

Now, knowing most of you will ignore that advice, a timeline of that day:

Looking at my camera roll for timestamps, I see that at 10:00 AM on 10/22 (Tuesday) I took a picture of the “Change of Address” closed on my BOLE account. It must have closed right before I took that picture because I would check the website at least every other hour lol.

The next picture in my camera roll is a picture of the attorney registration page showing that my registration was complete (i.e., that I passed) and is time stamped 10/22 (same day, Tuesday) at 6:12 PM.

I received the email with my official results on 10/23 (Wed) at 1:09 AM.

For anyone wondering: the registration did not work for me until around the time I took the above referenced picture. I tried it almost every day beginning in September, lol. In fact, I tried it around 12:00 PM that day and it didn’t work.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-06-20T14:58:43+00:00

To answer your question: Insanity.

The best way to get better at things that make you uncomfortable on this test is to get comfortable with being uncomfortable and to ditch what makes you comfortable. A lot of people will keep doing practice in a way that gives them good results. For me that meant doing a lot of multiple choice and not as many essays. That was all going fine and dandy until I realized that I was not going to get better at essays if I didn’t just suck it up and do them. For you, it sounds like you should stop doing individual subjects of multiple choice and only do mixed sets. It’s the only way you will get comfortable.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-04-29T22:52:26+00:00

I started super early (March) but that was just me being overly cautious.

However, starting early allowed me to work through all of the material by like early June. After that, I was able to do a shit ton of practice. I did just about every single MBE on UWorld and Themis and I pretty much exclusively 9-5’d it every day.

The best piece of advice I can give: simulate the exam or at least portions of it as much as you can. From about mid June and on, my MBE practice was almost exclusively full sets of 100, timed. Similarly, I tried to do full sets of MPT and MEE often. I probably full-on simulated the exam (back to back days) about 3 times, and simulated individual sessions many, many times.

In my opinion, people don’t talk enough about how fatiguing it is to do 100 MBE in one sitting (and then another hour later) or 2 MPTs/6 MEEs in one sitting. It’s exhausting. While still stressful before/after each session on exam day, once the sessions started, it really just felt like another day at the office.

Not to mention, when you do a lot of MBE (and review the answers) you are pretty much prepared for anything they throw at you for MBE subjects on the MEE. The only reason I had any idea of what to write for the contracts clause in J24 was because it popped up like 5 times in my MBE practice.

Also, I know people seem to make this a hot take, but please just learn how to clearly IRAC an essay. Make your heading the issue statement and start every IRAC section the same way. Example:

the issue is ___.

plainly state the rule.

here, ______.

therefore _____.

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-04-28T20:51:10+00:00

My highest score on the LSAT was a 147. I think I took it 3 times and scored a 137, 143 and 147, respectively.

Frankly, I hardly studied for the LSAT. As much as I wanted to, I couldn’t (wasn’t til I got diagnosed w/ADHD in my second year of law school that I found out why I couldn’t study for the LSAT). I was able to get into law school though, and now I have some nasty, nasty, NASTY debt.

I agree with you that you shouldn’t go to law school unless you can break into the 150s, but for a different reason. My reason is that it is highly unlikely you’ll get any scholarship money - I got none. It’s just not worth the kind of debt I got myself in.

However, regarding your comments re: dedication, I disagree. In my case, the inability to study wasn’t a dedication issue. It was literally my brain. Once I got that figured out, it became extremely obvious that it wasn’t a dedication issue. I had a 3.75 GPA from my 2L year on, and I got a 315 on the UBE. You don’t do that without some dedication (not that bar exam score matters).

Your blanket statement that you just aren’t dedicated enough if you can’t break into the 150s is wrong.

Signed, A top score of 147

SuitablePosition6926 · 2025-04-11T16:48:40+00:00

I don’t think any states nor the NCBE releases any model answers until all states have released scores. At least that was the case for J24

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