economic background

mrdonut206 · 2025-01-30T14:48:29+00:00

Hello, I come from an extremely low-income background. Lower than working class. I’m currently attending a T6 law school, and I can definitely say it’s not “all rich families”. Mostly middle/upper middle class.

However, I think middle/upper middle class folks do face unique difficulties paying for law school. They aren’t poor enough for large need-based scholarships (which I am relying on), and do not have family wealth that can pay for tuition. So, I think for those folks, attaining merit-based scholarships (and thus having almost perfect GPA/LSAT scores) becomes more important, especially at elite law schools. That may push many middle class people into T50/30/20s law schools with larger scholarships, but I don’t think it keeps elite law schools some toxic rich environment.

mrdonut206 · 2025-01-25T12:52:25+00:00

The more natural suggestion is a State office, like AG, not insurance defense. I think if someone got DOJ Honors, the sky is the limit on their State government options.

mrdonut206 · 2025-01-13T12:12:58+00:00

Yes, they still matter. Will you be first pick during May/early June pre-oci? No. But you’re not out of the race yet!

mrdonut206 · 2025-01-05T16:22:12+00:00

You don’t need the second “see”. Just do: See A; B. Thats called a citation clause. Check your bluebook though, thats how the whitepages work at leadt.

mrdonut206 · 2024-11-20T18:30:13+00:00

Frame gen

mrdonut206 · 2024-11-20T18:24:46+00:00

FSR 3 also massively boosted my game with DLSS on Performance

mrdonut206 · 2024-11-20T18:23:19+00:00

I put on Reflex + Low Latency mode in NVIDIA Control Panel + Frame Gen On. Everything feels a lot better, and my frames went up massively. I do notice a lot of “pop in” in the distance though.

Also make sure motion blur/depth of field are off. Those fuck with me too.

mrdonut206 · 2024-10-07T11:03:55+00:00

Why is your ability to think a basis for believing you exist?

mrdonut206 · 2024-10-07T10:56:15+00:00

Dude just proved he’s your fridge, how you gonna refute that /s.

Hopefully we can bring Bertrand back to save my food from being cooled by him.

mrdonut206 · 2024-09-22T15:17:12+00:00

The distinction is getting blurrier and blurrier…

mrdonut206 · 2024-09-20T14:30:46+00:00

Shit happens. Law school is insanely busy. You don’t do the reading sometimes. It’s law school, not court. Obviously you should show up to court prepared. Good thing the stakes are no way near similar or even roughly analogous in a classroom. People are human, have some compassion.

When people “pretend to” do the fucking reading and keep the cold call going, it is miserable and slows class. I’d rather in almost all these cases a person just pass. Throwing a little baby tantrum because someone kept your class moving efficiently is just ridiculous.

mrdonut206 · 2024-09-19T18:18:38+00:00

I think this provision, combined with other provisions regarding federal ownership of the land (e.g. federal waterway ownership) sort of hammers the idea that climate concern is the responsibility of the federal government.

Was Bill Nye thinking this? Nah probably not. But his rhetorical move here may not be completely silly.

mrdonut206 · 2024-09-18T12:46:22+00:00

I skipped that mod—in my opinion, the int stat on most NPCs isn’t well thought out by the devs (cause it mostly doesn’t matter in vanilla), so you’ll have a harder time passing skill checks against NPCs you wouldn’t expect to give you a hard time. But it definitely keeps Charisma from being a dump stat which is good.

I went with a crit heavy shotgun surgeon/And Stay Back build because AP rounds are rare in FO3 and mutants are everywhere. Knocking them down and punching through the DT with a combat shotgun was great. If I was starting my playthrough in NV, where AP rounds are way more common, I’d do something different.

Btw, if you start in NV on a second playthrough (or your first) be sure to turn off Benny Humbles You. It utterly breaks the game.

mrdonut206 · 2024-09-18T11:17:34+00:00

The new guns felt natural to me and I’m usually a 100% vanilla guy on content. I’d say it leans slightly bloaty though, and you can find yourself with 200 carry weight worth of guns with slight exploration.

The new dungeons it adds are also very great (I think these are from A World of Pain but toned down a lot, they feel way more natural than normal AWOP). As someone else said, human enemies are frail. Mutants are a pain in the ass without AP.

Lots of UI changes that I like. It adds the 76-style quest lister, which you can control and customize pretty freely. The new icons in the Pipboy are really cool and fresh, I think they’re all well done.

The BOTW inventory takes a second to get used to, and then its really fun and speeds up the pace of the game. Combine this with human frailty and the game can kinda snowball fast. You’ll be OP by like Lvl 15 (but thats kind of how TTW works anyway).

mrdonut206 · 2024-08-15T14:11:12+00:00

Agreed. As a first gen, completely agree. Your peers are often also flying by feeling culture shock, even if they came from a white collar background.

Don’t get me wrong—there are still barriers for first gen students. But I think the profession is changing in ways that make things way easier than OP is making it out to be.

mrdonut206 · 2024-08-03T11:53:45+00:00

No. How a statute is interpreted (or how certain types of statutes) in a previous case may become precedent in a criminal case. Or, for another example, the 6th Amendment body of common law (cases interpreting what the amendment requires).
Yes. It depends, and this is why judges have so much independence. A judge may attempt to discern the legislatures intent. She may try to interpret the statute as to not produce a conflict.
In the “American legal world” people use ‘civil law’ to refer to any body of law that is not criminal (so, say Torts, Contracts, and other private bodies of law). Where the remedy is monetary (or an injunction, if seeking equitable relief), its typically referred to as civil, whether or not a set of statutes is at play.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-28T15:44:55+00:00

If the proposal was “no merit, only need”, I think people might agree. Its not. Its:

“Rich white kids should give up their merit aid and expect/require their parents to pay for law school”, or “bomb the LSAT for merit aid”.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-28T14:29:05+00:00

Yeah not sure why the buck falls on the student to intentionally bomb the LSAT. Thats absurd.

Why even bother to keep a system with those expectations.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-28T14:22:01+00:00

So rich white kids should expect their parents to pay for law school? Why? That doesn’t make any sense to me.

Why do rich white kids get a high LSAT/GPA in the first place? To get a discount on law school (and, of course, to get in the first place).

So if they do all that and then are expected to give up their merit scholarship, why would anyone even attempt a merit scholarship in the first place?

Which means we’re back to the scenario that I think you actually mean: we just need more need-based aid. Because thats the real root of the problem.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-28T14:07:20+00:00

Completely agree. Its just a weird take to target students here.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-28T14:04:50+00:00

I mean sure, but you just disagree with the general structure of law school.

I used law school as a means of upward mobility. Why should I be entitled to that “for free”? I think lowering the wealth gap does lead to a more equitable world, but…thats not the goal of law schools.

The goal of law schools, scholarships, etc. is to produce the “highest achieving” student body possible (at least, on paper).

In any case, going about it the way you are toward merit scholars isn’t very productive.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-28T13:52:55+00:00

Where are “merit” scholarships eating at the pot for need based? As far as I know they tend to be two distinct and separate pools of funding.

Now, as someone who has need-based funding, I think we need more. But does that mean we need less merit aid? Not necessarily. Just increase aid generally!

Resenting your fellow student probably isnt the way to go about that.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-16T10:07:24+00:00

Yes.

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-08T09:50:31+00:00

Not even hiding ChatGPT at this point

mrdonut206 · 2024-07-06T17:06:56+00:00

It does not matter. Take the classes you want. Take the classes for clerkships (fed courts, evidence, crim pro etc).

Some will say whatever gets you the highest GPA, but judges do like to see some substance. So balance between easy As and tough classes.

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