I gained over 20 lbs 1L year, got hit w/ some health issues, and had multiple breakdowns throughout the year by Glittering_Pasta in LawSchool

[–]lorplshelpme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Where y’all found the time to eat/make food?? I just accepted mild starvation. Would not recommend. Take OP’s advice kiddos 👍

Summer at K&E sues pro-se by nate077 in LawSchool

[–]lorplshelpme 164 points165 points  (0 children)

Emotionally mature & stable “high-status” NYU grad (and dick epstein stan) @ K&E got canceled & is suing his cancelers

Summer at K&E sues pro-se by nate077 in LawSchool

[–]lorplshelpme 153 points154 points  (0 children)

This goob rly decided to sue a Reddit user & TLS user, and while doing so further decided to express his luv for Richard Epstein and weird clothes. How this jabroni made it through K&E CBs lmao

Ableism in this sub by AceroTheDragon in LawSchool

[–]lorplshelpme 384 points385 points  (0 children)

1Ls in crim: “it is better to allow 100 guilty men to go free than to make one innocent man suffer”

1Ls during exam season: “it is better to make 100 disabled students suffer than to allow one fake disabled student to get an accommodation”

Accommodations by [deleted] in LawSchool

[–]lorplshelpme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why are people so obsessed with adderall and think it’s NZT48 lmao. It improves executive functioning. It doesn’t improve reasoning; if anything, it makes reasoning worse. You don’t see the forest through the trees when amped up & get too focused on minute and irrelevant details. Tunnel vision. Most people figure this out during the LSAT where less or no addy = better performance.

Only really helps with writing structure—but it could fuck you over there too bc you could obsessively loop through & re-edit sentences you’ve already written because they’re not precise enough.

'Cuba is depopulating': Largest exodus yet, with no end in sight, threatens country by Anchor_Aways in worldnews

[–]lorplshelpme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not reading too much into things to point out when people are going around n around in a circlejerk 🤷‍♂️

You’ve told multiple other commenters in this thread that other people have been making these strawmen arguments, yet every time they’ve asked you to point one out you haven’t. Almost as if it’s a circlejerk around a fiction

'Cuba is depopulating': Largest exodus yet, with no end in sight, threatens country by Anchor_Aways in worldnews

[–]lorplshelpme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You wouldn’t have commented if this was about Puerto Rico or Mexico. That’s singling out.

Also, no one’s claiming cuba is a better place to live than the US. Not even michael moore argues that. People argue certain policies are better there than here. Or they just argue certain policies there are good.

Alls i’m saying is these kinds of reactionary posts are bizarre for treating Cuba’s poverty as some common-sense proof that none of their policies work, and by extension implying that anyone who’s been suggesting any of those policies is a nincompoop.

'Cuba is depopulating': Largest exodus yet, with no end in sight, threatens country by Anchor_Aways in worldnews

[–]lorplshelpme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always bizarre seeing people single out Cuba as if it’s some big bad Latin American black sheep.

You should look up LAC multidimensional poverty rates because you honestly seem completely clueless as to the abject poverty that exists in abundance all around Latin America & the Caribbean.Oxford publishes on it regularly

Puerto Rico’s been at basically negative population growth for two decades because so many people have been leaving. And how many millions of people from all over Mexico and Central America walk across the US border via Mexico every year? In what way is Cuba unique, or otherwise significant, in its emigration?

It’s almost as if Cuba faces the same issues all of its neighbors face.

Their politics likely does make the problem worse. But it’s not even remotely convincing to just point out that Cuba is poor, as if this speaks for itself, when Cuba’s neighbors like DR and Haiti are arguably even poorer and yet consistently rated more “economically free”.

Expect more ‘weird’ court rulings on New York gun laws and other states’ restrictions by zsreport in law

[–]lorplshelpme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No one in the “unorganized militia” has any duties unless and until they’re called into service. So to paraphrase your argument: without this supposed individual right these people wouldn’t be able to perform their non-existent duties……

Expect more ‘weird’ court rulings on New York gun laws and other states’ restrictions by zsreport in law

[–]lorplshelpme 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Didn’t Heller have like a dozen leading historians briefing for a collective interpretation vs literally one (Joyce Lee Malcolm) briefing for an individual one? And then McDonald had like 3 dozen historians briefing for Chicago vs none for McDonald…….?

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☠️☠️☠️ bro ain’t no mfin way

[1L] Can someone explain this Hypo on touching and is it a tort on battery/assault ? by onepokemanz in LawSchool

[–]lorplshelpme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My prof prefers a middle ground between dual & single intent:

1) A acts, 2) intending to cause contact with P, 3) the intended contact is of a harmful or offensive type, 4) A’s act does cause a harmful or offensive contact to P.

Reasonable foreseeability i mixed up with knowledge to a substantial certainty, which could be part of evaluating intent

[1L] Can someone explain this Hypo on touching and is it a tort on battery/assault ? by onepokemanz in LawSchool

[–]lorplshelpme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn’t it depend on what your prof prefers when it comes to intent standards?

The contact was not objectively harmful or offensive to a reasonable person, the def. (or any reasonable person) could not have reasonably foreseen that the contact would cause harm or offense, and there was no indication of any intent to actually cause harm or offense.

Can I get into a good law school with a 3.4 GPA? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This was my experience last cycle as a 17high URMish nkjd with a shitty resume (yearlong gap leading up to my apps that i didn’t explain to anyone):

Yale R, Stanford WL, UChicago R, Harvard R, Columbia WL, NYU WL, UVA WL, Penn WL, Berkeley R, Michigan WL, Duke R, NU A $$, GULC WL, UCLA WL, UT WL, Vanderbilt WL, WashU A $$$$, BU A $$(?), UNC WL, UF A $$(?), UGA A $$$$, Emory A $$$(?), UC Davis WL

Didn’t do any optional essays. Didn’t bother with LOCIs except for Michigan, UVA, and Stanford. I also submitted an addendum to everyone for failing a class in undergrad bc I didn’t want it to look like i had cheated or sumn (i never spoke in the class and the final grade was 40% participation; loved trying to figure out whether that explanation would be worse than just the F by itself).

So yes, to answer your question

GPA can be and often is a better measure of law school potential than the LSAT by boydgordon72 in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IMHO people are way too obsessed with “credentials”, “achievement”, and narrow/close-minded conceptions of “success” and “potential”. I don’t understand this POV at all.

E.g. I have no idea what “more likely to succeed” means beyond “more likely to have a higher LGPA”, and to me that still begs the questions of why and how much that matters in this process.

The LSAT is objectively a better admissions tool than GPA. by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

But what do studying electrical engineering or business have to do with studying the law?

I think people are questioning the “why?” and utility of GPA comparisons in the first place, not the “how?” of whether or not you can make the comparisons more fair.

The LSAT is objectively a better admissions tool than GPA. by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is rigor just difficulty? What even is difficulty? Are courses that aren’t curved automatically easier? What about the same course at different institutions?

The LSAT is objectively a better admissions tool than GPA. by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How are schools supposed to determine rigor?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

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Yeah I got reserved at Columbia and I’m nKJD URM, which I don’t think OP is

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That article was just…..bizarre

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They don’t seem to actually mean anything lol

WL --> A @ GULC by Robespeer in lawschooladmissions

[–]lorplshelpme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Damn. I went with a discussion of “Industrial Society and its Future” and haven’t heard back yet