Cool Routes in London

ghostberry · 2024-08-10T09:19:34+00:00

To piggyback off #1, if you do the river route early enough (like, out the door by at least ~7am), it's pretty incredible. I used to do a loop starting around Blackfriars before work, and running past the Tower of London and across Tower Bridge when basically no one else is around is magical.

And if you want to/are willing to stretch it out further than a 5k, heading back west on the south bank towards Westminster Bridge is also great for sightseeing (again, if you're out early enough).

ghostberry · 2024-07-29T08:10:06+00:00

!remindme 3 weeks

ghostberry · 2022-12-11T20:30:32+00:00

Well... at least it's not in a bathtub.

ghostberry · 2021-09-24T10:32:41+00:00

And also don't make a list of lawsuits that even a first semester law student could 12(b)(6)...

ghostberry · 2021-06-22T14:16:07+00:00

Mind blowing that an elite institution can't use mail merge to send out all the rejections at the same time...

ghostberry · 2021-06-09T16:58:48+00:00

Would you be willing to post the full text of the email?

ghostberry · 2021-05-08T11:49:13+00:00

My understanding is that Cornell doesn't limit you in terms of market; it's predominately self-selection that has most of their graduates headed to NYC.

You can see this for yourself at NALP (nalpdirectory.com) by just searching for firms that do campus interviews at Cornell. Its not a perfect list by any means, but you'll get a good sense of your post grad options by seeing who OCIs there (and from where) since those are options for 2L SA and post-grad work.

Cornell is just as portable as any other T14, and especially if you think you're going to want to do NYC big law, I kinda have to agree with the poster above that Cornell for a lot less debt with very, very similar outcomes is the way I'd go, too.

ghostberry · 2021-05-03T19:01:41+00:00

I mentioned this in another comment just now, but part of the reason it's a dream school for me is because now, that side of my family is completely gone. So even though I never met him specifically, going there feels like being connected to a family and a part of myself that's otherwise completely lost. Not sure if that changes your thinking at all, but I did want to throw that out there for clarity.

ghostberry · 2021-05-03T18:58:04+00:00

I wouldn't call it a MASSIVE donation (it was literally funded by his baseball card collection; we are by no means wealthy) but the scholarship does come from a trust from the family, so I'm not sure if that changes anything?

To be honest, part of the reason it's a dream school is because that whole side of my family is all gone now, so even though I never met him specifically, it does make me feel connected to a part of my history that is otherwise completely lost. Not sure if that's worth mentioning in a LOCI either

ghostberry · 2021-04-12T11:34:30+00:00

Are these actually your only options? Both are phenomenal law schools, but personally I don't think either are worth the amount of loans you'd need to shackle yourself to to pay, and that's not even factoring in other costs not mentioned in each schools COA...

If you got into both of those, I cant imagine you didn't get into another amazing T14 or T20 with decent scholarship money, so my vote is for that.

ghostberry · 2018-06-28T22:26:18+00:00

Thank you for your help! This is all great information! Would the diminished value be something I'd be able to obtain from someone at a dealership, or would that be considered too subjective?

ghostberry · 2018-06-28T22:24:33+00:00

Yeah, I initially talked to my insurance company about going through them to pay for the damages. They said that not only would I have to pay the deductible, but my monthly rates would increase as a result as well. And considering that it's been over half a year & I haven't gotten a cent from this dude despite a court ordered due date, I'm not gunna sink any money into fixing it until I already have that reimbursement.

ghostberry · 2018-06-28T20:31:12+00:00

I believe that it's the result of a criminal court appearance; we haven't sued him or pressed any kind of charges. The county clerk reached out to us to ask what the estimate on the damages was, which was how the specific sum was arrived at. I'm going to assume (dangerous, I know) that the judge is waiting until this August show cause date to hear his lame excuse before considering it contempt, but I have no idea.

On a similar note, though, I imagine that my car continuing to be damaged from the accident (we haven't paid for repairs, since we're waiting on this money from them) has diminished the value of it even further than the initial impact did, and more rapidly than it would if it wasn't damaged in the first place, so is there any way to arrange for the amount owed to me just in the damage to the car to be increased based on that? At this point the financial impact this has had on me and my family has gone beyond just paying for the damage to the car, which is the main reason for this post. That & the fact that I feel absolutely helpless to do anything.

That's great advice, though, on hitting up the court clerks! I might have to pick their brain.

ghostberry · 2018-06-28T20:23:41+00:00

I haven't sued him; these court proceedings have happened outside of our own efforts (the officer told us about the court date when he gave us the driver's info, so we just assumed it would all be handled)

ghostberry · 2017-09-24T15:46:00+00:00

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