Jan
18
2010
Toils At A Tier Four Law School
Author: Fat Plaid ShirtGrades were supposed to be in today, it’s what we call a deadline, it might also be a statute of limitations toll if this were real life and I was dealing with a case. Luckily, I have 2 of my 5 grades in. The other three professors, two of them are renowned for ignoring deadlines, and in fact, they ignore anything that is class work that comes at the same time as what ever they do in their spare time, because, well, students are a bother and we are lucky to have them as professors at all. I don’t feel lucky, I could and in fact, do, learn more from the nutshell in the last two weeks of school than the whole semester, as a general rule. Anyway…
If I pay my tuition past the “deadline,” I would be removed from class. If I miss three classes, they administratively remove me. But even though it’s been five weeks since finals, there are no grades in. Of course, since I’m in a tier four law school, I should be happy to be in law school at all right?
It seems to me, that you pay a lot more money the lower your school’s ranking, at least I do, but you will not get treated better than a student at a local community college. Maybe the local community college should get a law program.
January 18th, 2010 at 6:03 pm
If its any consolation (and I’m pretty sure its not): I go to a top tier law school, and they are equally immune to the power of the deadline here. It seems to be an academic epidemic.
My current hypothesis is that law schools survive by starving you into submission, then wearing away at your self esteem until you are too weak/amnesic to resist the power of the alumni donations campaign.
Anyway. I’m sorry. That sucks.