I thought I would share my experience with waitlists at SCU for this Fall semester for future students so they won't fret all summer over classes (like I initially did). At the beginning of summer, I was waitlisted for seven classes with positions ranging from 4 to 24. I received an email offering me a seat in six of those classes already. (I turned down a number of them based on other classes I got into). I was initially number 7 and am now at position 2 for the remaining class. Also, in the past, the professor for this class has let everyone on the waitlist into his class who shows up on the first day. I should also add that an additional section was opened up for two of the classes I was waitlisted for (Antitrust and Intellectual Property Survey), and I know other students who moved off the waitlist from positions in the 30s. So there you have it-- waitlists are not bad at all at SCU. Read More ...

...The students were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of The Hut danced in their heads.... Read More ...

This is what it is. Read More ...

Can't let that happen now, can we? Read More ...

Well this is my third post in a row, that means I'm on fire right? Read More ...

A year ago I had some goals... Read More ...

The Most Dangerous Game Read More ...

Today is Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010. This is what I did today... Read More ...

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Grades are back Read More ...

For most of us, one of two things are occurring as the grades roll in: your lofty visions of evaluating numerous big firm, six-figure offers next Fall during OCI are crashing ever so violently against the trampled first-floor carpet of Bannan Hall; or, the prior assumption that you'll most likely need to settle for whatever public interest firm is willing to toss you a bone upon graduation is suddenly a severe underestimation of your qualifications. Read More ...

This is the part I wasn't looking forward to. Read More ...

Palin's not the only one "going rogue". It's time to sin, law school style. Read More ...

Slave to law school but I own my master. Read More ...

Life is a play, law school is an act, the point is to make a scene. Read More ...

I hope I'm still speaking English after the first semester is over... Read More ...

Intervention on my hiatus. Read More ...

I need Terry Tate... to regulate Read More ...

Best two minutes you'll ever spend... Maybe Read More ...

Giving up is way harder than trying, for me livings better than dying. Read More ...

Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with uneasiness, fear, or worry. Read More ...

Some advice on who NOT to ask about going to law school. Read More ...

So you wanna go to law school? Read More ...

Got voted off the island. Read More ...

Below is a sampling of words that Microsoft previously considered misspellings (you know, with that squiggly little red line under them) and now, at least for me, the program doesn't blink an eye. Read More ...

Whoever makes fun of me best in my comments gets a prize of sorts. Read More ...

...Who's there? My best friend "Chip", that's who. Read More ...

The fact of the matter is, no matter where you go, hidden in every nook and cranny of your perceptual experience, a lawyer is lurking, doing his job so there's so much you never have to worry about. Read More ...

Suckers went to the bar review last week. I studied... losers. Read More ...

As the state continues to slash $1.2 billion from the prison budget, hundreds of men are moving into triple bunks in what used to be gyms and cafeterias. The first line items that usually get cut? Services. Health care, treatment for mental illness, education, job training - all the things that prevent released prisoners from doing something that puts them right back in jail - get cut faster than anything else. Read More ...

What's the gossip like at law school? It's like high school, but way worse. High School on crack is what it's like. Read More ...

...The first of many attempts to shamelessly promote my law school. Read More ...

The feeling this old guy had when he got out of the car (and I know because I asked him), is nothing like how you'd feel if you raised your hand in class and found yourself completely, butt-ass-nakedly wrong. Read More ...

I realize that many of my classmates have endured the great pressures of graduate school, jobs, public positions, and beyond. But law school seems to be its own beast that can only be tamed through experience. What does that mean? Well, it means we'll learn as we go, and the learnin' is tough. Read More ...

By any means necessary Read More ...

I've noticed a few disturbing trends about us naive first year students: We get in the way a lot. We are loud. As a group, we are somewhat inconsiderate...and we can't help it. Read More ...

Law, like anything worth knowing, is a means and oftentimes the end is someone's dreams - and usually not our own. Read More ...

You can take the kid out of the undergrad, but you can't take the undergrad out of the kid Read More ...

There have been multiple blogs about the study habits, the workload, and the sometimes harrowing classroom experience. So in an effort to provide a broader scope of what life is really like, I'd to share a story. Read More ...

One of our classmates mentioned to me this week that he had witnessed his first student-professor showdown, in which the student was doing nothing more than digging him or herself out of hole & which made me wonder: Is it possible to dig yourself out of a hole? Read More ...

One week down and I'm already in love. Perhaps this is a premature confession of adoration, but with the passing of each day and the turn of each page I grow more and more enamored with this crazy little thing called The Law. Read More ...

Ahhh.. the first week of school. I think I'm still suffering from culture shock. I moved from a tiny town in Eastern Washington called Wenatchee (which claims to be the "Apple Capital of the World"). In addition to that, I haven't been working for quite some time (lay-offs at my old job). Thankfully, unemployment benefits gave me a few months of paid vacation before I started school. The rough life I lead, right? Read More ...

An overview of the best blogger / 1L ever Read More ...

I would say that if there is one thing most people seem to be pretty confused about in this, our first week of law school, it's whether or not to embark on that age-old tradition of forming study groups. There's a great scene in the beginning of "The Paper Chase" when James Hart and the rest of the 1Ls are deciding how to utilize the group. The first thing they do is "assign outlines." This produces a fight as to who gets to take care of which subject. Read More ...

Here's a summary of what I learned about SCU Law. Read More ...

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