Confessions of a Litigious Mind

The random, irrelevant musings of a law school graduate.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

once again, fuck you [law school]

well, i was originally going to post about one thing, but something new just came up. i might still post later on the first, we'll see.

but really, fuck my law school. fuck it. i wish some natural disaster would come thru and fuck up my law school city so that i could transfer and not have to deal with this school and these people ever again. north korea, if you can hear me, drop your fucking bombs on my law school. right. fucking. now.

i got an email yesterday from the registrar asking when she could call me and at what number because she had to talk to me about my fall 2006 schedule. ok, fucking great. obviously its not going to be "hey i just wanted to tell you that your schedule looks great! nice job!" oh, fucking no. no its not. so i told her to call me this morning at 930, and she did.

my fucking genious school, in an attempt to better itself at the expense of the current students of whom it couldnt give a fucking shit about, has decided to branch out into two campuses until it eventually phases mine out (if you're not fucking retarded i bet you could even figure out my school from all this shit i've posted about how fucking retarded it is). but they decided that it would be a good idea if we could take classes from both campuses, cuz otherwise it would suck if we couldnt take what we wanted and the class selection was much narrower. makes fucking sense right? oh, but there's a catch. it's the motherfucking exception that eats up the rule!

apparently, the problem with my schedule is that we are not allowed to take more than 4 "distance learning" credits, aka shit from the campus you're not at. 4 is so fucking arbitrary, especially when 95% of our fucking classes are either 2 or 3 credits. evidently, i'm signed up for 5, as i had a 3 and a 2-credit class on my fall schedule. it's not like all my classes were distance. in fact, the professor of the 2 credit class has been at my campus and is just moving. FUCK. ok, so it doesnt really better our academic choice cuz i still can only take one distance learning class. well this makes the already fucked up schedule even fucking worse. not only are classes scheduled at random times and for random days of the week (why, a set pattern would be so awful...and convenient!), but now i can only really take classes at my campus.

then, to kick a motherfucker while he's down, she informs me that another class that would have fit my schedule after i dropped one of those classes is not being offered anymore. oh, fucking great. that's fantastic. fucking fantastic. so i dropped the 2 credit which could have maybe been at least a tiny bit interesting, and picked up another 3. yet another class i dont give a flying fuck about, and i'm not remotely interested in ocean and coastal law. and last i checked, pennsylvania didnt even border a fucking ocean. what the fuck.

and i dont have my schedule in front of me, so i dont know how the big picture looks right now. but i'm sure i'm going to fucking hate it. after all, i made my schedule the way i did for a fucking reason. but the school decided to be stupid fuckers and split the fuck up and now its fucked me yet again.

this has got to be the dumbest fucking school ever. NEVER FUCKING GO TO MY MOTHERFUCKING LAW SCHOOL. they will take lots of your (or your bank's) money, they will spend it, they will bend you over, they will fuck you up your fucking ass, and they wont give a fuck, cuz hey, they moved up a measly three fucking spots in US news, not even to top tier mind you. well, fuck you law school. this is such fucking bullshit. god fucking damnit i'm pissed.

posted by josh @ 6/20/2006 09:52:00 AM

12 Comments:

At 6/20/2006 10:58 AM, Blogger d$ said...

:(

 
At 6/20/2006 12:14 PM, Blogger Handy Man said...

well damn...glad i didn't go to law school

 
At 6/20/2006 7:14 PM, Blogger sadielady said...

fuck those motherfucking fuckers, godfuckingdamnit!! jesus motherfucking christ, what the fuck man.

 
At 6/20/2006 7:53 PM, Blogger Butterflyfish said...

Blessed screaming Jesus on a whole-wheat goddamn cracker.
(Rescue Me)

See, there is a whole world of profanity out there. Branch the fuck out, man.

:-)

 
At 6/20/2006 11:22 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

eh. at least you're not one of the peeps going up to the other campus. think how bad it is for them - not only have they already rented an apartment for next year, but now they can only take 4 credits via teleconferencing. and we both know that the other course offerings, i.e. the courses that will be taught live at that campus, are pretty dull.

so stop whining. :)

 
At 6/21/2006 1:37 AM, Blogger Damon said...

I agree that institution's main goal is to get your money and the students just get in their way sometimes, but you make it sound as though they decided to split this summer, but you knew about that before you choose that school. Move to the other campus and get a PhD in philosophy instead.

 
At 6/21/2006 9:33 AM, Blogger josh said...

dominique - yes, exactly

sadielady - thanks for the support/cursing

lawmommy - you make a great point. i will try to become more diverse with my swearing.

law monkey - i will not stop whining on MY blog. besides, if those stupid fuckers were dumb enough to go to campus #2 then fuck them, they did it to themselves. why should i give a damn? people should be held responsible for their own fucking stupid decisions, as long as those decisions either a) were informed or b) could have reasonably been informed.

damon - i most certainly did not know about the reality of the split until this year. i knew it was a possibility, but there was no set date that i had been made aware of. had i known it would be when i was still attending there's no way in fuck i would have gone to this school. and going to the other campus would do nothing because both are going to suck jesus' giant crucified nuts (better lawmommy?) as long as there are 2 campuses. as far as the phd, i'm so done with school at this point, 3-5 more years is not going to happen. and even if so, i could not be more angry with this school and i would never go there for any degree, nor would i recommend it to anyone. unless they liked getting fucked in the ass. so maybe i would recommend it to jeter and a-rod.

 
At 6/21/2006 1:27 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

awww dicta, don't get mad at me! of course you can do what you want on your own blog. i was just bustin' ya.

and anyway, while you're criticizing other people for making silly decisions, i'm going to have to echo what damon said and remind you that you, too, decided to go to this school and choose teleconferenced classes. so, i guess that means you should be held responsible for your own "fucking stupid decisions." hey, you said it, not me. :P

hope your job is going well. g/l w/ chuck norris. sounds rough.

 
At 6/21/2006 1:39 PM, Blogger josh said...

you obviously should have read my response to damon as well then. because while i did decide to go to this school, i was unaware that the school would be split prior to 2007, and i was also unaware of the consequences of a school splitting. and i think asking prospectives to research these things might be a bit much. you so creatively omitted that i said people should be held to their decisions "as long as those decisions either a) were informed or b) could have reasonably been informed." you and i have had discussions about how the administration obviously didnt tell us prospectives about this stuff because then who in their right mind would go? so i guess i'll try and do my part and not let new prospectives fall into the same shitty school i did.

besides, christ knows i didnt choose this school for its vast course offerings. but just because i decided to go to here doesnt mean i cant complain about problems. i mean shit, if the colonists who chose to come to north america and complained about britain's rule hadnt done so, we'd all be fucking british. and i've already mentioned on several occasions that i do not have bad teeth.

 
At 6/21/2006 3:33 PM, Blogger Butterflyfish said...

Keep up the good work. LOL

 
At 6/21/2006 10:45 PM, Blogger law monkey said...

dicta (take a deep breath): even if you have a problem with the dual campus, the fact remains that you opted to take teleconference courses. i suppose one might say that, if a person did his due diligence, he could have learned about both the dual campus prior to matriculating to the school, as well as the ABA 4-credit policy (note: the policy is not one created by the school: it is created by the ABA, and enforced by all member institutions. see below for more on that.)

if you'd like specifics, i can point you to a few articles dating back to 2004 and early 2005 (when the offical go-ahead was given for the dual campus). presumably, these decisions were made well before you considered transferring (unless you considered transferring before 2004, but even then, you would have been aware of the impending changes and could have opted to stay at your old law school.)

and thanks for being so level-headed. i know what i've said has really gotten under your skin, but . . . lighten up already, it's not the end of the world. (i'm waiting for you to bite my head off about that one.)

claire: as i mentioned above, it's an ABA rule. yes, it sucks that students weren't informed of the the rule, but on the other hand, it's been published online for a while.

Standard 306. DISTANCE EDUCATION.
. . .
(d) A law school shall not grant a student more than four credit hours in any term, nor more than a total of 12 credit hours, toward the J.D. degree for courses qualifying under this Standard.

 
At 6/22/2006 9:40 AM, Blogger josh said...

the problem with that is, how about we treat it like some things we've seen before and use a reasonable person standard. i dont think that before i sign up for my classes i should have the ABA rules memorized (i know its an ABA rule and not one from our shitty school). but if there's a possibility conflict, i would say maybe our school has some sort of professional duty to alert us, since IT is the one undergoing all the bullshit forcing us to even have the option of distance learning.

regarding dual campuses, i obviously have not read the articles, but just because the decision was made doesnt mean they go into details on how it would specifically affect the students. if that's important to them. which its not.

finally, if anyone is going to argue that finding all this shit on their own and doing all this research for what could be is reasonable for an average law student, then i've never been happier to be unreasonable. sorry i have a life and dont just want to research the ABA rules and what might happen at my school (wow, shitty luck. probably what, no more than 3 schools nationwide are probably doing this shit now, if that). besides, i think there's an unspoken implication that even if a school is undergoing changes/modifications, they're not going to totally fuck the people currently paying ridiculous amounts of money to be there.

of course it's not the end of the world. but its unnecessary bullshit that i now have to deal with. but combine that with a new asshole dean, the old racist registrar, poor class offerings, a poor class schedule, rooms with too few outlets, a shitty ass state, obnoxious students, not enough library carrells for every student, distance learning issues, and a completely inept career services office, and i think i have reason to complain.

oh, i got my fucking education all right.

 

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