Hi there and welcome to Fridays From The Frontline! This week most current law students were in the midst of frantic exam studying with the goal of being able to celebrate Thanksgiving without stressing over outlines, torts or other school-related commitments, to varying degrees of success.
oL MRS‘s undergrad law class hosted a guest panel, which inspired her to ask her readers if they had suggestions for law-school related summer reading. 1L Ricky Nelson considered whether Madoff victims could sue the SEC and noted that there are no replays in life. NYU ’12 Invisible Man did not cross the 10 hour study line, and found that reading a non-law book was a great way to put all his studying into perspective. Austin ’12 Mariel found that she didn’t mind spending seven hours in the library if it meant that she wouldn’t be stressed during Thanksgiving. NYU ’12 Anonymous shared seven reasons she was thankful, which included her boyfriend and almost being done with her first year. Boalt ’12 Moonshine Project planned on taking a bluebook citation test, eating sushi and watching the latest Twilight movie. NYU ’12 IDWSK explained why he was slightly hesitant to give study advice to his peers, but had a few thoughts for those OLs thinking that they should spend the time before law school prepping for their eventual coursework. North Carolina ’12 TDot enjoyed playing a hostile witness for a 2L trial practice.
Yale ’11 SB didn’t go home for Thanksgiving, but an epic, Google spreadsheet-managed, potluck would give her plenty of festivity fun. 2L Kel looked for the motivation she had back when she was applying to law school. 2L NewLawMom lucked out in her current semester, and only has to prepare for three exams. 2L The Exit didn’t take too kindly to her school’s new referral campaign. 2L Casebook Sherpa read a post that was supposed to provide insight into how to pick a law school but found it lacking, so wrote his own similar post but with more criteria. Minnesota ’11 Jansen provided his professor’s reasoning for teaching like-kind exchanges and explained why he hated law school curves. 3L (In)Sanity Gal missed her days of drama and wondered what the difference between being realistic and giving up really is. 3L Nobody rebounded from a number of stressful law school-related issues (paper of doom, fitful journal contributors) with wine and sleep.
And that concludes this week’s summary of the hip happenings in the law school blogosphere. We hope all readers and bloggers had a great Thanksgiving, full of their favorite foods, family. And, as always, if you are a current law student or law school applicant with a blog, we’d love to include you in Fridays From The Frontline, just send your blog addresss to bob@clearadmit.com!
