The Corner In The Middle

Thanks Thomson-West publishing for stealing from me, and every other law student that is required to buy your textbooks for the semester. 

I just paid for my books for the semester.  What a f{}ing rip off.  I hate to use the f bomb, but I’m doing it.  My tab:  $954.86.  Yeah, $954.86.  Exactly.  One text for trusts and estates, was literally $180.00, without tax of course.  There is no book that a person in real life could use every day that is worth 180.00.    It doesn’t help you pass the bar.  It is full of excerpts/cuttings/rehashing of cases, the same one’s that we could get for free on Westlaw or Lexis by punching in the heading.

So, I paid more for books than I pay for rent for a month in my nice three bed room townhouse, and by the way, all of them are used except the wills text.  And, I still have to pay at least 2,000 to take the bar prep class because you can’t use your law school stuff for the bar, because it’s not real law.  Awesome. 

As of this semester I’m in debt $117,000 and I still have one more year to go after this year. At my low ranked school, with me being solidly stuck in the middle of my class, all I can say is that I hope this farm thing pays out, because it’s not looking good economically at this point.  How come plumbers make more than many attorneys?  Oh yeah, I remember, they didn’t pay for seven years of school.  I’m so glad I am going to law school today.  

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