My name is Dirty Mike. After a lifetime of unskilled and semi-skilled labor, I have finally retired. After coming home to discover me with my harem of 5 scantily clad twink slave boys, my wife has left me and now is suing for full custody of our 33 year old son.

I’m a proud veteran, and was a member of a very elite unit known as the United States coast guard. I saw deployment and vicious hand to hand combat in the Persian gulf and Afghanistan. As part of our discipline and training, I now arrive to every event 4 hours early. Even if I’m going to a friend’s house, I’ll just sit in their driveway and wait.

While awaiting my case in the gallery, I saw something that would make the grisly death of my uncle at the hands of a deadly case of anal vertigo, look like child’s play. A 3L law student began arguing a divorce case. Now I don’t know the exact details because I think having a good memory is for pussies, but what I do know is that everyone was very upset after.

Seeing someone stand up and just be so astonishingly and confidently wrong made me rethink my whole life. If he can enter into a court room with such confidence, then I can do anything; even admitting to myself and all of you that I’m gay.

As a child I repressed my sexuality due to having a strict upbringing. My mother herself was beaten by nuns with yardsticks because she wrote left handed.

It’s a struggle to not recognize yourself in the mirror when you spend your whole life putting on a mask for other people. Living a double life. Living life on a razor’s edge, and feeling like at any moment everything could come crashing down and be exposed for who you are.

But not anymore. I’m choosing life. I’m choosing freedom. I’m choosing myself. Life is too short to be anyone other than who you know in your heart that you’re meant to be.

This is what’s on my mind during the week of finals

“you can’t know you’ve failed yet” imagine freezing so terribly you blank on a key concept in the UCC in your contracts final and forget basic defenses and misapply the pinkerton doctrine as opposed to the felony murder rule for your criminal law final.

i could ask “what do people even do after they’ve been academically dismissed” but i feel that im flipping between blind panic and total numbness so meaningful responses would be wasted on me

I am a 1L and open enrollment is here. My school does not offer health insurance. I do not qualify for Medicaid in my state because you have to be pregnant or a parent. If I fill out the Marketplace questionnaire accurately, I can't include my loans as income. Which makes me BELOW what the qualification is for the Health Premium Tax Credit. So I'm expected to use my loans to pay $500 a month for decent health insurance?!

Wondering if I can count expected summer internship salary towards my income, but I have no idea what that might amount to.

Please help!

Lol

Came out of my first final yesterday (contracts) in tears. I read every case, went to every class, did flash cards and outlined and memorized as much as I could and still felt horrible. I know everyone’s saying to trust the curve but idk…

I think at this point, I have come to terms with the fact that I might get my first ‘C’ in law school. I tried with property, I really did… but I just can’t get it to stick like other materials. There’s just so much information, and idk. I’m fucked. It doesn’t help that we didn’t have a midterm… so this final is make it or break it. I’ve never lacked so much confidence in a class before. I’ve been doing practice multiple choice exams and some written problems bc that’s all I can do at this point. I’m going to need a miracle for a ‘B’

Just the title!! If y’all have ANY fed courts outlines I’ll be very grateful

I am currently halfway through the first year of my law degree. While I don’t hate it, I can’t say I particularly enjoy it either. At times, I find myself questioning whether I have the patience to continue for another three or more years, especially since I am unsure if I even want to pursue a career as a lawyer.

If I were to leave my law degree, I would like to explore opportunities in business. However, I am unsure where to start or what path to take. Some people suggest that having a degree in business is essential to succeed in this field, yet my family members have successfully run businesses without even holding GCSE qualifications.

I am particularly interested in hearing from individuals who have dropped out of university and transitioned into starting their own business. What would you recommend for someone in my position? How can I best prepare myself or improve my chances of succeeding as an entrepreneur without completing a degree? Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated.

I am currently halfway through the first year of my law degree. While I don’t hate it, I can’t say I particularly enjoy it either. At times, I find myself questioning whether I have the patience to continue for another three or more years, especially since I am unsure if I even want to pursue a career as a lawyer.

If I were to leave my law degree, I would like to explore opportunities in business. However, I am unsure where to start or what path to take. Some people suggest that having a degree in business is essential to succeed in this field, yet my family members have successfully run businesses without even holding GCSE qualifications.

I am particularly interested in hearing from individuals who have dropped out of university and transitioned into starting their own business. What would you recommend for someone in my position? How can I best prepare myself or improve my chances of succeeding as an entrepreneur without completing a degree? Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated.

I’m so over this. That is all.

1L here. I have 3 finals in the next 10 days and I really need to lock in. Only have 1 outline done and need to teach myself an entire class because I have no notes or anything.

I already know I’m going to hate my life by the end of this. Any advice?

Yes, another overdramatic 1L.

A long time ago, before I was put on a shit ton of medication, I started having panic attacks with psychotic features. What this meant was that when I started to feel anxious of scared I had like ten minutes to get somewhere safe before I became convinced that people were trying to kill me. Multiple times I called friends to beg them to spare my life because I was sure they had ordered me killed. Sometimes I would hyperfixate on imaginary poisons and I'd get so much somatic pain I'd pass out or throw up but I was too scared to go to the hospital.

I keep telling myself that I survived that I can survive this.

I just wanted to go to law school and become a lawyer and wear a suit and work in a skyscraper. I think I'm probably going to fail out of school. We have our first exam tomorrow and I havent' done a single complete practice exam. I've tried but I can't focus. I did some multiple choice problems and got like 75% of them. I slept 15 hours today.

I'm so tired. Law school is so lonely. This was a mistake.

Everyone I grew up with is working at A-list tech companies and making the world a better place. I got into a T14 but I'm a fucking disaster. My brain is sick. My chest hurts.

I'm going to try to do one full essay question before I go to bed. I'm going to give my best friend a hug before the exam tomorrow. He's my favorite part of law school. There's a girl I've been flirting with I'm going to ask if she wants to get coffee before winter break. Genuinely, truly, don't know what she'll say.

I don't know how to end this one.

hi everyone, I'm currently a 1L at a t10 studying for finals. I was looking back through my calendar to see what reading assignments I have missed throughout the semester, and I realized, to my dismay, that I have skipped quite a few assignments this fall. considering I have about 7 class meetings per week (civ pro 3x, contracts 2x, torts 2x) and about 15 weeks in the semester, this totals to about 105 total readings for the entire semester. of these 105 total readings, I have skipped/skimmed/or entirely not read approximately 20 total readings this semester, which is ~20% of the total assigned reading.

I feel SO shitty about this and I genuinely do not understand how my peers did all this while remaining mentally sane. I barely did 80% of the work they did and I struggled so much. every day I would watch my classmates go to the library after class or in between classes but I was just so tired from being in class itself that I had to rest and therefore wasted so much precious time throughout the semester. I guess I had a hard time adjusting to the constant stream of work (ADHD, massive sense of imposter syndrome, and some other issues) and was extremely exhausted all the time, which I think led to me falling behind at some points.

everyone else I've talked to, at least in my section, has been able to keep up with our workload and seemed nowhere as distraught as I was in October/early November (when I started to really slack). I feel like such a flop especially right now :(

I still attended all my classes and took notes, but feel like I'm already at such a disadvantage to my peers that somehow had their shit together throughout the entire semester and read everything we were assigned. obviously I want to do as well as I can this finals season, but is it even worth trying lol or am I fucked

Please forgive me if this comes off as insanely neurotic. I know it’s my fault, but I procrastinated HARD on a seminar paper and went back and reread it after turning it in(because I am a huge masochistic freak) and realized I got sloppy with citations. As in, I probably under utilized them. I did not directly crib and fail to attribute, but I definitely in a few places used one source for a whole paragraph but only cited at the end of that paragraph, which could result in confusion about whether or not i’m making factual assertions in that whole paragraph from just that one source. I’m freaking out. Should I email the professor and apologize? Correct them and send them and apologize saying that I just corrected my citations and wanted to be forthcoming? Or forget about it? Please be direct but kind as I sometimes have an issue with being so myopic and mired in my own issues that I lose site of what I should and should not be obsessing over at any given time.

anyone apply for a Peggy browning fellowship? have you heard back in any capacity from any of the orgs you applied to? let's discuss because this is making me nervous

Hello,

1L got a civil procedure final coming up and I had a question about the best way to diagram and structure my essay. The diagraming portion I really don't get, should I be drawing out a flow chart for the exam or something?

As for the writing in the IRAC format if the essay question has a personal jurisdiction, inter pleader and a rule 12b issue.....would I do an IRAC for each one of them?

lol actually just realized i no longer can afford to go to sleep yaaaayyyyyyyy 😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛😛

This is silly, but I way over-committed myself this semester (classic 2L mistake of doing Law Review, volunteering to be a witness for mock trial during the week before the MPRE and taking 5 classes).

I've been so behind preparing for exams and really stressed out, but I just found out I passed the MPRE!! Not by like a super impressive margin or anything, and I know it's not really considered a hard test, but I was really worried that I had failed it for pretty much no reason other than over-loading leaving little room to study for it.

But I feel like at least a small weight has been lifted! Congrats to everyone else who passed and now has one less thing to worry about!

Exam stress is killing me, I just keep imagining that I will go into the exam and not know any answers to the questions. My torts outline is 150 pages since were allowed unlimited number of pages and I keep adding stuff that we did not even cover (I know it's dumb but I keep stressing that the prof may have talked about it and I did not pay attention).

Considering that the 3 hours will determine our entire future, how did your first semester exams go? And if someone did really bad their first semester were you able to make a comeback or find employment in the summer?

I took my first law school exam today…the voice to text feature on my laptop turned on by itself unbeknownst to me mid-exam. Smack dab in the middle of my exam essays are multiple paragraphs of the proctor’s post-exam instructions. They wouldn’t let me delete it because time had been called…

Fascinating class. Kind of an advanced mix of the more interesting parts of Con Law with the more interesting parts of Civ Pro.

Makes me feel as dumb as a pile of really dumb rocks, though.

Scored an 87! Guess I studied just the right amount 😊 Used Barbri to study – totally in love with the bow tie guy

how do i get over the feeling that i'm doing all this studying for absolutely nothing because other people seem to just 'get it'

My brain cannot seem to understand these statues

Fml

Does anyone have a list of key differences between R2K and UCC statutes by each topic/ concept?

often the statutes are essentially the same betweeen ucc and r2k, however there are times when there are key differences. I will remeber the 2 different rules and eleements but i often forget which is which, unless its obviously talking about goods/merchants haha.

For example I'll remeber that one has the mirror image rule and the other doesn't but I wont remeber thait its R2k that has the mirror image rule and not UCC

or I'll remember a riule that only appplies to one or the other, but i wont remeber if its ucc or r2k

Waited to do 3L to do Crim and I’m regretting it.

Curious to see what others think (FWIW this doesn’t correlate w/ the grades I received). Difficulty in descending order:

1. Contracts
2. Crim Law
3. Civil Pro
4. LRW
5. Con Law
6. Property
7. Torts

WTF is even a contract? Fed Courts is still the hardest overall (but not a core class).

I had just 10 minutes to get through my third essay prompt. I’ve been feeling absolutely sick all week, and today fucking sucked. I considered reaching out to student services to request accommodations, but I didn’t follow through. Honestly, I just wanted to get the exam over with, but I was stuck in a fog the entire time.

I spent way too much time on the multiple choice section, which felt somewhat doable, but by the time I got to the essays, I couldn’t think clearly at all. My first two responses were completely lackluster, and when I finally got to the third essay, I only had 10 minutes left. I just wrote down bullet points of things I wanted to mention and moved on.

I feel awful. I’m a 2L, and it feels like this exam could put me on the brink of academic disqualification. I have one more test, so I guess I have to throw all my energy into that, but I’m genuinely struggling right now.

I keep reading posts where people say they felt like they bombed their exam but ended up with a B. I need to know, when you felt that way, did you actually leave the exam feeling like absolute shit, or was it more like, “yeah, it was bad, but I managed to get through it”? That seems more reasonable to me as to how someone could still pull off a decent grade.

I know the curve giveth and taketh, but it feels like it’s about to taketh my entire corpse and spit out my bones.