Agree.
1) law students are mostly socially misfitting -- booze makes them able to interact.
2) you'll work hard, party hard.
For the LSAT, forget the hype. Just tighten the screws and do it, and you'll probably do fine.
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I found that they were not as socially misfitted as the engineering students I was in class with.
🙂 But I have never met a group of students who drink harder, but also derail their law school career with alcohol.
Where you may read more as an English major, or work with numbers more as a business major (not to mention any of the sciences), I still cannot think of something more frustrating that the hair splitting editing it takes for any law student to have to shave down a paper to its essential elements without being too wordy. Wordiness is great for bloggers and judicial opinions and dissents, but never for law students.
Next to wordiness, asking too many questions in class is very frowned upon in law school. People like that are termed gunners and almost without exception, they get the worst grades in law school. Among the talkers who get bad grades in law school are those who are great speakers. You are graded on short, written exams, not if you can appear like William Shatner from Boston Legal.
The best law students I have seen over the past several years didn't have English as their first language, so in a way, learn to be right to the point and give both sides to an argument equal time.
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LSAT? Definitely tighten the screws, get a good enough score, and then forget it because it won't have a lick to do with law school.
Some of the better students tanked on the LSAT and some high scoring LSAT people didn't do well on law exams.
This may seem unfair and brutal, but it's the first of many brutal lessons you will find in your first year. And unlike college and graduate school, you are not in law school to make friends. In a small area like mine, law students later meet up against each other on cases when they become lawyers at times, and at other times work together.
