:: Electric Psychedelic Pussycat Swinger's Club ::

:: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 ::

inter vivos

This isn't technically a return. Although I suppose the very definition of "return" implies there was a departure, the concept of which I obviously don't seem to fully grasp. Yes, I am back, but ONLY from time-to-time when my misgivings about our culture simply can't be kept bottled in any longer. So let's not go suckin' each others' dicks just yet.

The bar studying is going great so far! Everybody's really nice and there's absolutely no pressure whatsoever! In reality, Barbri is far worse than law school ever was. Perhaps it's because you actually have to attend. There's the rub. But the one critical distinction between a bar prep course and law school is time. Barbri's like the skanky chick you meet at a club where it's customary to brush aside all the typical courtship rituals like "dating" and it's expected that you'll both go home and get down to business. There's no discussion of what you both do for a living. No going out to coffee to get a feel for their personality or the possibility of a 2nd date. No expensive restaurants or other shallow attempts to impress the opposite sex. Bar prep courses sit you down with an 8 week window in which they provide you with all the essential facets of American legal practice with all the outlines already made up for you. Boom, pow, SUPRISE! That's it. Done.

Law school on the other hand is like meeting a girl at church. You know she's conservative (at least appearances suggest so) and it's probably going to take a while before you get to board the pleasure train with this one. You're gonna have to put in the time: wining, dining... this is going to be one of those "you're in it for the long haul" type things. There's just no other way around it. To get what you want, you're simply going to have to put in the time. Law school is exactly that. What was the point of taking an entire semester's worth of torts when we are now finding out at Barbri we could have learned it in 3 days? A whole year of Constitutional Law? Try 2 days. This blows my mind. And the worst part of it all is that, after 3 years of law school, I don't remember a damn thing that would help me pass the bar, whereas with a total of 4 weeks of Barbri to date, I've learned more than 3 years of law school combined.

Fuck law school. It's nothing more than a system set up so as to maintain the status quo of managing a profession. Unfortunately, there's no fighting it. You're gonna have to put in your 3 years and $100,000+ to get your slip of paper, only to wind up paying a mere $2500 to actually learn the law through Barbri.

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