Hey legal eagle, as someone that is not attending a higher tier university for my bachelors would that affect in the long run for when I start applying towards law school?
Just fyi, Solid State Drives are not immune to crashes. A crash can occur from either a hardware malfunction OR a software based malfunction. Granted, Solid State Drives have no moving parts and are less likely to crash due to sudden movements and become damaged, but that still doesn't mean a computer with an SSD can't crash. Just figured I'd throw in that bit of information. With you being a civil lawyer (if I remember correctly), I could see this info potentially being useful if it's not something you were already aware of.
I have more like a youtube question, i guess it is kinda rude and picky. is it not cheap, showing some hardcore destruction while talking about 5 by Richter Earthquake? Obviously people who never been in earthquake may find it startling, but this image seemed over the top for a 5.
I got nothing on you califonians, but when the 4.1 hit de i littereally thought it was just people having sex. (and yes if you live in a trailer sex can make your house shake...and cabnents open)
Similar story: I'm a teacher with my sixth year (two masters degrees). Two days before my dissertation was due (an international approach to special education - an analysis as to whether or not "least restrictive environments" always serve special needs students to their fullest), my computer suffered a "head crash" - basically, the stylus that reads the drive dropped out of position and scratched up the entire disk making it unreadable. It's ok though! I had my dissertation saved to a USB drive! ... that a student hurled a bookbag at the next day as it sat plugged in to my mentor teacher's desktop. My dissertation was now saved to a USB drive that was in four pieces. THANK GOD I went to a votech school and knew how to solder. I had to solder the teeny-tiny circuit board back together. I then borrowed a neighbor's laptop, immediately emailed the dissertation to four different email addresses of mine, and then watched as the LED light died on the USB drive, never to light up again.
When I was in college working on a major project with two other people (both of which were HORRIBLE at making backups) my computer died. I took it apart, repaired it with a new part, but it back together again and it survived another few weeks before dying again. I fixed the darn thing every way I knew how because while my files were safe thanks to an external harddrive, I had no ability to do work outside of class without my computer. I was broke, living off £7 a week. So I just fixed the thing in any way I could. Tape, hair ties, all manner of idocy. However, I got my assignments in and then got part time work so I could eventually afford a new computer. But, I also took up freelance computer repair, and a few people asked me to build websites for them... Then, I started writing backend web APIs... I went to university (not the same thing as college in the UK. College was age 16-20 for me and I studied another two years at a university) and then got a degree in computer science and got a job as a software engineer before I even got my official results back from the university. Resourcefulness is what keeps the human race alive ;) (Although I'm terrible at almost everything else xD)
I feel the pain. Had a big homework due at University, had it done, felt great about it...until I remembered it was a team effort and the first guy to deliver....didn't. So it was a straight ZERO for all of us. The Professor went out of his way to give us other 2 a chance to make our efforts be counted lateron but first thought was "that's it, you're done!" and I was in shivers over 3 months gobe in the wind....
Not as big of a crisis, but at my remote college we lost power a few hours before a report had to be submitted online at midnight. All my friends came to my apartment because I took the deep cycle battery out of my Jeep and had an inverter charging like 15 laptops.
I can relate to the "gunners" story. I consider one of my friends a genius at coding, yet his exam marks are always in the 70s. I don't understand it. When ever I got stuck on a problem, he would always offer excellent solutions almost instantly.
God I never did well on my CS exams but always got 100%+ on every actual coding assignment. Sometimes exams are just different than the actual topic the exam is based on.
I do not find it fair that the students taking the bar exam were not given extra time because of the earthquake. Does anyone else find that ridiculous?
If you can't roll with the punches, you shouldn't have decided to become a lawyer. I wish these people the best of luck with their upcoming careers as cashiers and valets, but they should consider their chances at a meaningful life to be over.
Wow. That gunner story is exactly like mine. I was the biggest "hikke"/gunner of my high school but I never succeeded with paper exams, never. My teachers were frustrated since during the lessons I was doing excelent. Later at the end of my university studies I was diagnosed with dyslexia. That explains a lot and I wished the diagnose would come many years earlier.
I dont know if I was a gunner but in my first year a lot of the questions used to be directed at me and because my dad is a lawyer I was expected to answer and did my best. After helping everyone with their work I got 2 out of 100 on my first ever law exam. I did ok on the final but that law school horror story stays with me.
So, I have a story, too. My best friend in law school was sitting next to me during our Torts exam. She had told me a week before that some of her keys were sticking, but I thought she’d gotten it fixed. Well, in the middle of the exam, I’m suddenly shaken out of my exam fog by her closing her laptop, getting up, and walking out. She went to call IT and the keyboard had completely stopped working. She lost 20 minutes, but came back and still managed to finish with a bluebook. Bonus round: One of my classmates got the Blue Screen of Doom during her Con law final.
Lord Inter Im known to be a "last ditch gunner". Some teachers ask a basic question, just to check if anyone is awake or because he had "interaction training" that week. I cannot stand those 30 seconds of awkward silence: all you can hear is the drool of morons slowly dripping to the ground. All you smell is the sour fear of social anxiety. All you can see is the teacher begging to god his class actually isnt that stupid. So I raise my hand tell the teacher that yes, pi is 3.14 and everybody can move on with this slapstick we call education. God I hate people😂
yeah, one time at the end of Gr.11 though i took an open course (never again) and all of the shouting, Starbucks, phone clicking and kid behind me that literally practiced his SINGING i snapped an talk them to shut the hell up and that they were the reason our education system is failing. my teacher legitimately thanked me afterwards.
As I'm approaching my second year of University, I can probably reflect and say I'm a gunner in the always answering questions, with a fairly good percentage of being right. I'm that way because that's how I engage my brain, rather than trying prove a point or anything. If anything I feel like I don't belong and my grades are nothing special, somewhere in a 2:1 to a 1st region using the UK system. I answer questions a lot because without doing so I think I would actually fail. For anybody reading this about to do uni or are doing uni and worried about their contribution, I would recommend answering questions as you can develop yourself. But if you choose not to then don't be disheartened in yourself if it appears someone else is seemingly knowing it all. They are likely just trying to keep their mind engaged in a way that suits their learning style.
7:00 - This has ruined so many dissertations, not just in law school. One day you will drop your laptop or fall off your bike or spill coffee on it, and you have to be ready to recover what you've done so far. It is easier than ever these days to just put it in a dropbox or other online, automatic update platform that keeps history of your past files. Do not risk it. The other danger is overwriting your file with a blank document. Dropbox, and I assume by now all the other platforms, let you restore from backup copies over the last several weeks. Just don't risk it.
People don't realize how scary or stressful university life can actually be. It is genuinely life-threatening sometimes, in the way something is threatening to one's existence rather than one's biological life. And of course the demands cannot be directly comprehended from outside. People often think a little bit of smartassing, and posing, online goes a long way. Yet one can nuke most of the internet and not genuinely claim a lot of essential knowledge was lost, at least the stuff that is created by "interaction" and discussion (there are probably or almost certainly exceptions by now in the form of databases etc.). This was trivial common knowledge until 2014 too... (Some became the sanest, some or perhaps most the most insane in 2015.)
I'd love a series on the legal side of the student debit crisis. What potential regulations are legally feasible and which ones would likely be shot down? What are the legal differences of public vs private?What's going on with that public service debit relief thing that apparently no one has gotten? What kind of precedent is there for huge reforms of an industry - banking regulations? Integration? Title 9?
Good lord, looking at you in this video and then again in the ones from late 2020 - 2021, you've gone through some massive stresses. 3 years must do a lot to a lawyer.
Bit late on this but I was doing biomed in university about 7 years ago. My anatomy tutor, who was Egyptian (I'm sure he still is but he's not my tutor anymore) was talking about his childhood, and slipped in whilst talking to about 25 students "Do you remember when you were a child and misbehaved, and your parents burned you with a match to punish you?" and laughed in that "I'm reminiscing" sort of laugh. And I'm glad he taught me. There is no better anatomy tutor than a suspected serial killer.
I can personally attest that that first bit about grades generalizes to a lot of fields. I've been the Allen in most of the classes I've taken, and although my grades were generally better than all Cs I was far from the best student.
I guess Californians treat earthquakes the way Floridians treat hurricanes. In fact, it's typical of some Floridians if there is a hurricane to literally have a 'hurricane party' which may include a hurricane-themed cake. xD
My animation professors always tell new student to back up their files to at least 3 locations and save the final video to a site like RUclips. You never know when or if one of your backups will fail, and loosing the day before critique is an animator’s worst nightmare.
I wasn't really a gunner, just being able to answer most of the questions given when the lecturer pointed me out. I just had a passing grade in my semester and only because the lecturer considered my participation in class, else I would've failed.
Yep I had a similar incident with a USB flash drive back in 2011 while working on my MBA. I was traveling and periodically getting some classwork done while visiting my nieces when my flash drive completely stopped working. Fortunately I was testing this kooky invention called Google Drive so it wasn't a total loss but losing several assignments, presentations, and reference material set me back a few weeks. Definitely be vigilant about backup methods and there's nothing wrong with redundancy which is invaluable for these unexpected moments.
Objection! That sitting judge's story where you said he was insane, he was tactical, not insane. If he, as a legally knowledgable man, was insane or even just bloodthirsty, he would have thousands of legal options in his head on how to legally kill and-or maim the intruder. He chose to detain and intimidate him into never returning. I'm a former burglar among other opportunist incomes. There are two things that stop a burglar: Fear and respect. That judge did both. Fear by holding him hostage with a deadly weapon. Respect by letting him go. Tactical, not insane. Personally, it would have been all respect for me. If he lets me go, I know he is not a killer so fear evaporates. Respect because he saw me as a human being.
Every time i hear about college loans, geez.... Its really a sad thing. 160.000$??? In my country we only have to worry for afterschool lessons and the future rent.
i can relate to number 4, but I did not have a computer but used only the university computer labs. I had compile my analytical data analysis on a 3.5 disk to give to my TA, when at 2 am, the computer started eating my disk. yikes, the TA did give me an extra day after the computer lab rep confirmd my story.
True Story: all right this summer I had to take an online art class( It was called Women in Art History). I had to work upstate New York from June 2 to August 26th, while I took this class. I work at a sleep way camp during day and around midnight I would stay up to complete weekly assignments. I was fired 2 weeks after (Thank goodness because I really hated working there) and went back home. Anyway, in August I had to submit a huge report on MoMA. This is went all shit when left 😪: My little sister at the time had borrowed my laptop for an tech internship. The day my project was due, she returned it and I was just about to submit it. When I noticed that my laptop didn’t turn on😭. What made matters worse was I hadn’t saved my final daft to my google drive or usb. I panicked and called my mother to tell her what happened. She offered to buy a new laptop for me just so I could submit my assignments. FYI: it was due on Sunday and all public libraries were closed so I was definitely screwed. I literally had to rewrite 20 pages in 4 hours but I did it! The crazy thing is I told my professor what happened and she laughed 😂. Now I’m currently completing my thesis for B.A in special education. 🤦🏾♀️
Just because someone's a judge doesn't mean they aren't crazy. Which makes you concerned about the justice system as a whole, really when the outcome of your trial can be a dice roll on the judge you get.
Regarding your last horror story: fortunately where I study, besides a study fee of 124€/semester and a private repetitor most students attend in preparation of their final exam (approx. 1000€), no debt needs to be made. 🙏🏻
I’ll second the call for a review of The Paper Chase. A fear of ending up with a professor Kingsfield (or several) is one of the reasons I didn’t pursue a law degree... I’ve often wondered how accurately it depicted Law School in general
In med school we also had gunners... except they were actually as smart as they acted they were. They even graduated in the top 10 ranks at the end of all fours years.
yep, lost my assignments at 2 in the morning, just disappeared, no idea why just as well I had my work & written out longhand before typing it up, thank god for coffee
how horrifying. a student who wanted to engage in the discussion and get the most out of their lecture! seriously, the term gunner is typically reserved for the people who are not only trying to be the best but trying to take other student's down. no one should be ashamed to have the answers in class, or for actively participating. if you're not hurting others learning, you're not doing anything except making the most of your tuition dollars.
I find it interesting that your law school allowed 1Ls to join the trial team. At my law school, only 2Ls and 3Ls could join. The reasoning behind this is that the school wanted the students to have Contracts, Civ Pro, Crim Law/Pro, Evidence, and Torts under their belts so that they actually knew the doctrines that they're implementing in their cases rather than just spewing words that didn't hold any meaning behind them. IMO, this was especially true of evidence since I always had a hard time distinguishing between the exceptions and exemptions to hearsay. XD
The burglar thing could be a sort of character test sting operation. Or on the other hand it is more like Mob bonding. One of those situations where you are genuinely wondering what is the better choice. Maybe you have to use a patented impartial look at the time.
I´m living in Germany and i just received a letter telling me i have to pay back BAFöG Credit (it´s a free credit from the government). It´s 1900€ and i´m a bit in trouble because of that. But hearing from your 160.000 $ credit really made me think of how lucky i am because going to a university here in germany is mostly free. You guys in the US have much bigger financial burden if you want to study than i had/have. Cudos to all of you, really!
Gunners? When I was the USMC's Basic School (first school post-commissioning for all officers, 6 months of mostly infantry training with overviews of the other job fields) we had several of those, but we called them springbutts.
Can wait to start at Columbia law school this fall. Thank you for your honesty about law school l, and I hope will achieve my optimistic goals in the future and with your experiences I hope I could develop confidence and maintain my studies at law school
The problem with people like that Alan guy is that they don't really study, they just think up an answer for everything based on their all-around knowledge of the law and their personal sense of justice. This is not what you go to law school for. These people are not fit for this job and, from what I've seen, even if they miraculously pass the bar exams, they always change career paths at some point.
I used a Netbook in law school that had zero storage so all my notes, everything was on a flash drive. Right before my Comment was due, my Netbook fell and landed on the side the flash drive was in. Flash drive destroyed. Luckily my dad was able to recover the files from the broken flash drive and luckily I had friends who gave me their notes in the meantime (it was also around finals). After that I emailed myself all my notes, etc often.
My law school horror story: on the second year, I had 6am class, and almost every day I saw a man in his 40s that had never seen before at the University. Usually I got first into the building and get right into the elevator, just a few steps ahead of him, and closed the door quickly ( I don't like to share elevators), and he just missed the elevator, I could even see him a bit angry through the closing door, that happened like 8, 7 times(?). Next year, I discovered that man was going to be my professor 😢😢
@BalkanHound haha no, not so much. Only on the final exam I got a 4.3 and a friend got 4.6, we both wrote the same answers (no copy), but that 0.3 of difference got stuck in the elevator I guess :/ But still he was a nice person, the final exam was just 30% of the subject. 4.3 out of 5.
I can't tell you how many times students have been frazzled and, well, horror-struck coming into THE exam of the year and the bloody computer won't start.
6:50 *OBJECTION* SSD do not just die faster, but WHEN they die, you are gone for GOOD... those glorified RAMs. A regular HDD you can recover 9 of 10 times. Only extreme cases like magnets or fire can bring those down for good. My first SSD died 3 months in (and if you check amazon reviews you find those die in 3months or run years, depending if its a >Monday model< ... and yet they don't live nearly as long. I still run SEVERAL HDD which are 15+ years old. Regularly used. Ofc i use backup drives, cause I'm not an idiot, but..... i don't trust SSDs for more than windows+games... but not my personal Data
Listening to your "horror stories" reminds me of how shitty my life is. Your "horror stories" is what happen to me on a pretty good day. If you want to have actual horror stories, come hang out with me for a few months.
wtf... you need to pay AFTER you get out of collage?? wtf??.. that's the shittiest way to provide education... are there no public universitys that teach medicine, law school, enginering and all the major careers?
Huh, my Dad lost his PhD thesis in the 70s because the PDP-11 machine had an old fashioned head crash where the read head hit the drive palette and tore it up. His sister and mother had to spend the next two weeks typing it up from his written notes while he drew in the diagrams.
about 5 days before my masters in physics dissertation hand in my hard drive that had my dissertation and all my research on in got corrupted, luckily i sent a copy of my dissertation to my supervisor an hour earlier and i managed to recover most of my research
I'm getting off easy for student loans. Maybe $30k when I'm finished, but I'm also going to a non-profit online school for a Computer Science degree. I think student loans is the horror story for every college student, unless you get a scholarship.
Objection!: Hard drives are safer then Solid state drives. Both SSD's and Hard drives store data ON your physical computer. When SSD's fail they fail absolutely. No recovery. When an HDD fails you can recover that data, either you can do it yourself or send it out for recovery. Cloud. Cloud is good for a backup but always remember it is someone else's computer . (A remote server is still technically someone else's computer ) Good video though.
I have one Horror story I live in Canada and i took a program called Police Fondation which is a program that, teaches you all the ins and out of policing that includes some of Canadian Law due to when your a Police officer you need to know how to lay a charge, in the last year of my program you do a fake trail where everyone in my class at the being of the year is given a case that has madye 3 senses on it and it up to you to do all the paper work and make up your crown briefs with in the U.S would be your Discorvey. which too put to gather everything takes good bit. so I remember the day it was due everyone including my self was putting the finishing touches on there crown briefs. and i look over and there is one class mate that was just starting his 5 mint before class and before it was due
Oof, I understand the debt. I'm going to art school, and my debt is going to be around $200k once I graduate. Student loan debt is a horror story for everyone.
Not gonna lie, I'm not even a law student and using cloud services to work on papers is a really smart idea. I'm going to start doing that from here on out and move it to a regular document software when finished. Thanks!
"$160,000 is more than most people's houses" not here in the UK it aint that's actually the starting prices of most places. The closer to London you get the more expensive, case and point there is a 2 bed flat (relatively big but not huge) i saw the other day for 1.5M GBP that's approx 1.87 million dollars
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LegalEagle what school would u recommend for becoming a criminal lawyer ?
What did you like about UCLA’s law school? Your experience at UCLA?
Hey legal eagle, as someone that is not attending a higher tier university for my bachelors would that affect in the long run for when I start applying towards law school?
Just fyi, Solid State Drives are not immune to crashes. A crash can occur from either a hardware malfunction OR a software based malfunction. Granted, Solid State Drives have no moving parts and are less likely to crash due to sudden movements and become damaged, but that still doesn't mean a computer with an SSD can't crash.
Just figured I'd throw in that bit of information. With you being a civil lawyer (if I remember correctly), I could see this info potentially being useful if it's not something you were already aware of.
I have more like a youtube question, i guess it is kinda rude and picky.
is it not cheap, showing some hardcore destruction while talking about 5 by Richter Earthquake? Obviously people who never been in earthquake may find it startling, but this image seemed over the top for a 5.
Californians don't get out of bed for anything less than a 6.0 on the Richter Scale
I grew up in California. That is accurate.
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Accurate
I didn't bother getting up for a 5.4 aftershock of the Ridgecrest quakes. But a 6.0 would have had me crawling under something.
I got nothing on you califonians, but when the 4.1 hit de i littereally thought it was just people having sex. (and yes if you live in a trailer sex can make your house shake...and cabnents open)
Yeah live on the ring of fire problem is we’re drilled from basically pre K to get under the desk and count to 60 twice
"When I was sitting for the California bar exam. . ." no need to continue end of horror story.
Lol! Classic!
Similar story:
I'm a teacher with my sixth year (two masters degrees). Two days before my dissertation was due (an international approach to special education - an analysis as to whether or not "least restrictive environments" always serve special needs students to their fullest), my computer suffered a "head crash" - basically, the stylus that reads the drive dropped out of position and scratched up the entire disk making it unreadable. It's ok though! I had my dissertation saved to a USB drive!
... that a student hurled a bookbag at the next day as it sat plugged in to my mentor teacher's desktop. My dissertation was now saved to a USB drive that was in four pieces.
THANK GOD I went to a votech school and knew how to solder. I had to solder the teeny-tiny circuit board back together. I then borrowed a neighbor's laptop, immediately emailed the dissertation to four different email addresses of mine, and then watched as the LED light died on the USB drive, never to light up again.
When I was in college working on a major project with two other people (both of which were HORRIBLE at making backups) my computer died. I took it apart, repaired it with a new part, but it back together again and it survived another few weeks before dying again. I fixed the darn thing every way I knew how because while my files were safe thanks to an external harddrive, I had no ability to do work outside of class without my computer. I was broke, living off £7 a week. So I just fixed the thing in any way I could. Tape, hair ties, all manner of idocy.
However, I got my assignments in and then got part time work so I could eventually afford a new computer. But, I also took up freelance computer repair, and a few people asked me to build websites for them... Then, I started writing backend web APIs...
I went to university (not the same thing as college in the UK. College was age 16-20 for me and I studied another two years at a university) and then got a degree in computer science and got a job as a software engineer before I even got my official results back from the university.
Resourcefulness is what keeps the human race alive ;) (Although I'm terrible at almost everything else xD)
With all this stories I’m thinking on saving my stuff in multiple places from now on just in case 😩😂 right now I use clouds.
I feel the pain.
Had a big homework due at University, had it done, felt great about it...until I remembered it was a team effort and the first guy to deliver....didn't. So it was a straight ZERO for all of us. The Professor went out of his way to give us other 2 a chance to make our efforts be counted lateron but first thought was "that's it, you're done!" and I was in shivers over 3 months gobe in the wind....
The ending to your unfortunate story was beautiful
Not as big of a crisis, but at my remote college we lost power a few hours before a report had to be submitted online at midnight. All my friends came to my apartment because I took the deep cycle battery out of my Jeep and had an inverter charging like 15 laptops.
I can relate to the "gunners" story. I consider one of my friends a genius at coding, yet his exam marks are always in the 70s. I don't understand it. When ever I got stuck on a problem, he would always offer excellent solutions almost instantly.
You have to focus on the right things.
Testing is a talent unto itself.
People who are good at answering in class (such as myself) are good with knowledge but not with presentation skills in written form.
Just because you know information doesn't mean you do homework.
God I never did well on my CS exams but always got 100%+ on every actual coding assignment. Sometimes exams are just different than the actual topic the exam is based on.
I do not find it fair that the students taking the bar exam were not given extra time because of the earthquake. Does anyone else find that ridiculous?
Yes. 100% agreed.
If you can't roll with the punches, you shouldn't have decided to become a lawyer. I wish these people the best of luck with their upcoming careers as cashiers and valets, but they should consider their chances at a meaningful life to be over.
fruityrudy21 you sound like an uneducated fortnite player.
fruityrudy21 you realize they can retake it, right?
Yes. That's silly.
Your DJ name could be DJ JD
He is Devin James, after all.
Ah, college debt. Like Blackadder, I bet you felt like a Pelican. No matter which way you looked, there was a great big bill in front of you.
Thought your final story was going to end with "I became a lawyer"
Wow. That gunner story is exactly like mine. I was the biggest "hikke"/gunner of my high school but I never succeeded with paper exams, never. My teachers were frustrated since during the lessons I was doing excelent. Later at the end of my university studies I was diagnosed with dyslexia. That explains a lot and I wished the diagnose would come many years earlier.
I was looking for law school horror stories for the longest time!!! Thank you so much for this!!!
Cool. Glad you liked it. I don't want to give the wrong impression; law school was awesome. But I put up with some crazy crap along the way.
5:35 Haha! We Californians are so Hardcore, not even an earthquake can scare us from passing the bar!
I am ready!
OBJECTION! The Earthquake cannot be a horror story if it HELPED you. 😅
I dont know if I was a gunner but in my first year a lot of the questions used to be directed at me and because my dad is a lawyer I was expected to answer and did my best. After helping everyone with their work I got 2 out of 100 on my first ever law exam. I did ok on the final but that law school horror story stays with me.
Yeah I'm graduating with $250k worth of debt from Berkeley.
Getting off light!
You could've bought a ferrari with that kind of debt.
😬
So, I have a story, too. My best friend in law school was sitting next to me during our Torts exam. She had told me a week before that some of her keys were sticking, but I thought she’d gotten it fixed. Well, in the middle of the exam, I’m suddenly shaken out of my exam fog by her closing her laptop, getting up, and walking out. She went to call IT and the keyboard had completely stopped working. She lost 20 minutes, but came back and still managed to finish with a bluebook. Bonus round: One of my classmates got the Blue Screen of Doom during her Con law final.
I'm "a gunner" I hate waiting for classes to answer and take forever to get through things, specially if I have a good guess at the answer
Lord Inter Im known to be a "last ditch gunner". Some teachers ask a basic question, just to check if anyone is awake or because he had "interaction training" that week. I cannot stand those 30 seconds of awkward silence: all you can hear is the drool of morons slowly dripping to the ground. All you smell is the sour fear of social anxiety. All you can see is the teacher begging to god his class actually isnt that stupid. So I raise my hand tell the teacher that yes, pi is 3.14 and everybody can move on with this slapstick we call education. God I hate people😂
yeah, one time at the end of Gr.11 though i took an open course (never again) and all of the shouting, Starbucks, phone clicking and kid behind me that literally practiced his SINGING i snapped an talk them to shut the hell up and that they were the reason our education system is failing. my teacher legitimately thanked me afterwards.
That is called Adhd
As I'm approaching my second year of University, I can probably reflect and say I'm a gunner in the always answering questions, with a fairly good percentage of being right. I'm that way because that's how I engage my brain, rather than trying prove a point or anything. If anything I feel like I don't belong and my grades are nothing special, somewhere in a 2:1 to a 1st region using the UK system. I answer questions a lot because without doing so I think I would actually fail. For anybody reading this about to do uni or are doing uni and worried about their contribution, I would recommend answering questions as you can develop yourself. But if you choose not to then don't be disheartened in yourself if it appears someone else is seemingly knowing it all. They are likely just trying to keep their mind engaged in a way that suits their learning style.
7:00 - This has ruined so many dissertations, not just in law school.
One day you will drop your laptop or fall off your bike or spill coffee on it, and you have to be ready to recover what you've done so far. It is easier than ever these days to just put it in a dropbox or other online, automatic update platform that keeps history of your past files. Do not risk it. The other danger is overwriting your file with a blank document. Dropbox, and I assume by now all the other platforms, let you restore from backup copies over the last several weeks. Just don't risk it.
1:00 - Story 1 - Gunners
2:55 - Story 2 - Mock trial competition
5:35 - Story 3 - Earthquake
6:35 - Story 4 - Computer crash
8:15 - Story 5 - Debt , debt, debt
People don't realize how scary or stressful university life can actually be. It is genuinely life-threatening sometimes, in the way something is threatening to one's existence rather than one's biological life. And of course the demands cannot be directly comprehended from outside. People often think a little bit of smartassing, and posing, online goes a long way. Yet one can nuke most of the internet and not genuinely claim a lot of essential knowledge was lost, at least the stuff that is created by "interaction" and discussion (there are probably or almost certainly exceptions by now in the form of databases etc.). This was trivial common knowledge until 2014 too... (Some became the sanest, some or perhaps most the most insane in 2015.)
I'd love a series on the legal side of the student debit crisis. What potential regulations are legally feasible and which ones would likely be shot down? What are the legal differences of public vs private?What's going on with that public service debit relief thing that apparently no one has gotten? What kind of precedent is there for huge reforms of an industry - banking regulations? Integration? Title 9?
Judge to burglar: "You are now going to take the BAR exam. For every wrong answer you provide, I will... well why ruin the surprise."
Good lord, looking at you in this video and then again in the ones from late 2020 - 2021, you've gone through some massive stresses. 3 years must do a lot to a lawyer.
Bit late on this but I was doing biomed in university about 7 years ago. My anatomy tutor, who was Egyptian (I'm sure he still is but he's not my tutor anymore) was talking about his childhood, and slipped in whilst talking to about 25 students "Do you remember when you were a child and misbehaved, and your parents burned you with a match to punish you?" and laughed in that "I'm reminiscing" sort of laugh. And I'm glad he taught me. There is no better anatomy tutor than a suspected serial killer.
I can personally attest that that first bit about grades generalizes to a lot of fields. I've been the Allen in most of the classes I've taken, and although my grades were generally better than all Cs I was far from the best student.
$160K for a house, where though?
Burned it to a CD is insane
I guess Californians treat earthquakes the way Floridians treat hurricanes. In fact, it's typical of some Floridians if there is a hurricane to literally have a 'hurricane party' which may include a hurricane-themed cake. xD
My animation professors always tell new student to back up their files to at least 3 locations and save the final video to a site like RUclips. You never know when or if one of your backups will fail, and loosing the day before critique is an animator’s worst nightmare.
I wasn't really a gunner, just being able to answer most of the questions given when the lecturer pointed me out. I just had a passing grade in my semester and only because the lecturer considered my participation in class, else I would've failed.
Need to do well on an exam? Just wait for an earthquake!
Computer Crash is really scary indeed.....
Yep I had a similar incident with a USB flash drive back in 2011 while working on my MBA. I was traveling and periodically getting some classwork done while visiting my nieces when my flash drive completely stopped working. Fortunately I was testing this kooky invention called Google Drive so it wasn't a total loss but losing several assignments, presentations, and reference material set me back a few weeks. Definitely be vigilant about backup methods and there's nothing wrong with redundancy which is invaluable for these unexpected moments.
"wah it only took a few years to pay off 160,000 dollars". terrifying!
Most people are bad with money.
Objection! That sitting judge's story where you said he was insane, he was tactical, not insane. If he, as a legally knowledgable man, was insane or even just bloodthirsty, he would have thousands of legal options in his head on how to legally kill and-or maim the intruder. He chose to detain and intimidate him into never returning. I'm a former burglar among other opportunist incomes. There are two things that stop a burglar: Fear and respect. That judge did both. Fear by holding him hostage with a deadly weapon. Respect by letting him go. Tactical, not insane. Personally, it would have been all respect for me. If he lets me go, I know he is not a killer so fear evaporates. Respect because he saw me as a human being.
No suit jacket? Devin you're practically naked.
I remember we had a mock trial/argument in elementary school and it was basically an incentive for all the kids to get super rowdy and start a war.
Every time i hear about college loans, geez.... Its really a sad thing. 160.000$??? In my country we only have to worry for afterschool lessons and the future rent.
Awe, poor Alan. Im happy you became his friend!
i can relate to number 4, but I did not have a computer but used only the university computer labs. I had compile my analytical data analysis on a 3.5 disk to give to my TA, when at 2 am, the computer started eating my disk. yikes, the TA did give me an extra day after the computer lab rep confirmd my story.
Funny thing, the one earthquake I have been through I did not have an issue with I sat right through it like it was nothing.
@6:45 "back in the day when" is the phrase "old people" use to describe how life was to young whippersnappers! LOL
True Story: all right this summer I had to take an online art class( It was called Women in Art History). I had to work upstate New York from June 2 to August 26th, while I took this class. I work at a sleep way camp during day and around midnight I would stay up to complete weekly assignments. I was fired 2 weeks after (Thank goodness because I really hated working there) and went back home. Anyway, in August I had to submit a huge report on MoMA.
This is went all shit when left 😪:
My little sister at the time had borrowed my laptop for an tech internship. The day my project was due, she returned it and I was just about to submit it. When I noticed that my laptop didn’t turn on😭. What made matters worse was I hadn’t saved my final daft to my google drive or usb. I panicked and called my mother to tell her what happened. She offered to buy a new laptop for me just so I could submit my assignments. FYI: it was due on Sunday and all public libraries were closed so I was definitely screwed.
I literally had to rewrite 20 pages in 4 hours but I did it!
The crazy thing is I told my professor what happened and she laughed 😂.
Now I’m currently completing my thesis for B.A in special education. 🤦🏾♀️
Just because someone's a judge doesn't mean they aren't crazy. Which makes you concerned about the justice system as a whole, really when the outcome of your trial can be a dice roll on the judge you get.
Regarding your last horror story: fortunately where I study, besides a study fee of 124€/semester and a private repetitor most students attend in preparation of their final exam (approx. 1000€), no debt needs to be made. 🙏🏻
I’ll second the call for a review of The Paper Chase. A fear of ending up with a professor Kingsfield (or several) is one of the reasons I didn’t pursue a law degree... I’ve often wondered how accurately it depicted Law School in general
In med school we also had gunners... except they were actually as smart as they acted they were. They even graduated in the top 10 ranks at the end of all fours years.
yep, lost my assignments at 2 in the morning, just disappeared, no idea why just as well I had my work & written out longhand before typing it up, thank god for coffee
First rule of computers: _Save early, and save often._
There are only two kinds of data on your computer: data you’ve backed up and data you haven’t lost yet
how horrifying. a student who wanted to engage in the discussion and get the most out of their lecture! seriously, the term gunner is typically reserved for the people who are not only trying to be the best but trying to take other student's down. no one should be ashamed to have the answers in class, or for actively participating. if you're not hurting others learning, you're not doing anything except making the most of your tuition dollars.
I find it interesting that your law school allowed 1Ls to join the trial team. At my law school, only 2Ls and 3Ls could join. The reasoning behind this is that the school wanted the students to have Contracts, Civ Pro, Crim Law/Pro, Evidence, and Torts under their belts so that they actually knew the doctrines that they're implementing in their cases rather than just spewing words that didn't hold any meaning behind them. IMO, this was especially true of evidence since I always had a hard time distinguishing between the exceptions and exemptions to hearsay. XD
This channel deserves 5 million subs
The burglar thing could be a sort of character test sting operation. Or on the other hand it is more like Mob bonding. One of those situations where you are genuinely wondering what is the better choice. Maybe you have to use a patented impartial look at the time.
8:20 - Oh you sweet summer child :(
I´m living in Germany and i just received a letter telling me i have to pay back BAFöG Credit (it´s a free credit from the government). It´s 1900€ and i´m a bit in trouble because of that. But hearing from your 160.000 $ credit really made me think of how lucky i am because going to a university here in germany is mostly free. You guys in the US have much bigger financial burden if you want to study than i had/have. Cudos to all of you, really!
Gunners? When I was the USMC's Basic School (first school post-commissioning for all officers, 6 months of mostly infantry training with overviews of the other job fields) we had several of those, but we called them springbutts.
Remember the movie "The Paper Chase". Total recall was no use - in and of itself - for the student.
Can wait to start at Columbia law school this fall. Thank you for your honesty about law school l, and I hope will achieve my optimistic goals in the future and with your experiences I hope I could develop confidence and maintain my studies at law school
160'000 USD costs as much as people's houses? [Laughs and cries in swiss, where the crappiest studio cost 3 times that price]
The problem with people like that Alan guy is that they don't really study, they just think up an answer for everything based on their all-around knowledge of the law and their personal sense of justice. This is not what you go to law school for. These people are not fit for this job and, from what I've seen, even if they miraculously pass the bar exams, they always change career paths at some point.
The earthquake comment made me laugh. You are a true Californian, my friend. A lot of us Bay Area locals say they fart a 4.0 so it's not a big deal.
I used a Netbook in law school that had zero storage so all my notes, everything was on a flash drive. Right before my Comment was due, my Netbook fell and landed on the side the flash drive was in. Flash drive destroyed. Luckily my dad was able to recover the files from the broken flash drive and luckily I had friends who gave me their notes in the meantime (it was also around finals). After that I emailed myself all my notes, etc often.
Your videos are great man. Keep it up man.
My computer froze during a final... I had to restart it... I was soooo relieved to see my work was saved on the exam program🙌🏽
Legal problems? No, no, no... Very few of my problems are legal!
New subscriber but I'm really digging your stories and insight so far. Keep up the fantastic work.
Thanks for sharing the joke in the beginning and your experience with horror!
My law school horror story: on the second year, I had 6am class, and almost every day I saw a man in his 40s that had never seen before at the University. Usually I got first into the building and get right into the elevator, just a few steps ahead of him, and closed the door quickly ( I don't like to share elevators), and he just missed the elevator, I could even see him a bit angry through the closing door, that happened like 8, 7 times(?). Next year, I discovered that man was going to be my professor 😢😢
😂😂😂😂
@BalkanHound haha no, not so much. Only on the final exam I got a 4.3 and a friend got 4.6, we both wrote the same answers (no copy), but that 0.3 of difference got stuck in the elevator I guess :/
But still he was a nice person, the final exam was just 30% of the subject.
4.3 out of 5.
This is something that would happen to me in law school 🤣🤣
I can't tell you how many times students have been frazzled and, well, horror-struck coming into THE exam of the year and the bloody computer won't start.
0:14 You are way too adorable to be a lawyer 😂
Ha! I found when your short jingle started
I hate the cloud, but I use external hard drives for all my files. I also have my Office2003 set to auto-save every two minutes.
You need to do more Horror stories this Halloween!!!
6:50 *OBJECTION* SSD do not just die faster, but WHEN they die, you are gone for GOOD... those glorified RAMs.
A regular HDD you can recover 9 of 10 times. Only extreme cases like magnets or fire can bring those down for good.
My first SSD died 3 months in (and if you check amazon reviews you find those die in 3months or run years, depending if its a >Monday model< ... and yet they don't live nearly as long.
I still run SEVERAL HDD which are 15+ years old. Regularly used. Ofc i use backup drives, cause I'm not an idiot, but..... i don't trust SSDs for more than windows+games... but not my personal Data
please do more of these if you have more stories to tell for the spooky season!! 😫😫😫
If you have to ask yourself whether you were a gunner, you were a gunner...
Listening to your "horror stories" reminds me of how shitty my life is. Your "horror stories" is what happen to me on a pretty good day. If you want to have actual horror stories, come hang out with me for a few months.
Also is it just me or does the outro remind anyone else of "Danger! High Voltage" a little bit?
You should do a review of Paper Chase
LegalEagle,
what do you think of 'Murphy's law'?
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wtf... you need to pay AFTER you get out of collage?? wtf??.. that's the shittiest way to provide education... are there no public universitys that teach medicine, law school, enginering and all the major careers?
"Horror story" SOMEONE ELSE GOT C'S! SUCH HORROR!
I’m scared of taxes!!!
This video deserves all the likes for that thumbnail alone
Huh, my Dad lost his PhD thesis in the 70s because the PDP-11 machine had an old fashioned head crash where the read head hit the drive palette and tore it up. His sister and mother had to spend the next two weeks typing it up from his written notes while he drew in the diagrams.
You describe me perfectly in first section, minus the fact that I never went to law school.
I'm guessing that BMWs is a pretty good metric for Law School debt.
about 5 days before my masters in physics dissertation hand in my hard drive that had my dissertation and all my research on in got corrupted, luckily i sent a copy of my dissertation to my supervisor an hour earlier and i managed to recover most of my research
Always have at least three backups and one hardcopy, if plausible.
Hiding for your life from LegalEagle, normal Tuesday night for LegalEagle.
I'm getting off easy for student loans. Maybe $30k when I'm finished, but I'm also going to a non-profit online school for a Computer Science degree. I think student loans is the horror story for every college student, unless you get a scholarship.
Objection!: Hard drives are safer then Solid state drives. Both SSD's and Hard drives store data ON your physical computer.
When SSD's fail they fail absolutely. No recovery. When an HDD fails you can recover that data, either you can do it yourself or send it out for recovery.
Cloud. Cloud is good for a backup but always remember it is someone else's computer . (A remote server is still technically someone else's computer )
Good video though.
I have one Horror story I live in Canada and i took a program called Police Fondation which is a program that, teaches you all the ins and out of policing that includes some of Canadian Law due to when your a Police officer you need to know how to lay a charge, in the last year of my program you do a fake trail where everyone in my class at the being of the year is given a case that has madye 3 senses on it and it up to you to do all the paper work and make up your crown briefs with in the U.S would be your Discorvey. which too put to gather everything takes good bit. so I remember the day it was due everyone including my self was putting the finishing touches on there crown briefs. and i look over and there is one class mate that was just starting his 5 mint before class and before it was due
No clue why I opened this. My european law school is so much different and I can't relate to 90% of this.. haha
So you're telling me mother nature wanted you to be a lawyer so bad she was shaking in excitement? Sounds badass to me
Oof, I understand the debt. I'm going to art school, and my debt is going to be around $200k once I graduate. Student loan debt is a horror story for everyone.
AmethystAxas art school 😂
What a waste. Art school. really? Lol
Alot of documentries of Law Students "Stripping" to pay for it and with over 150,000K in Debt I don't blame them.
Not gonna lie, I'm not even a law student and using cloud services to work on papers is a really smart idea. I'm going to start doing that from here on out and move it to a regular document software when finished. Thanks!
"$160,000 is more than most people's houses" not here in the UK it aint that's actually the starting prices of most places. The closer to London you get the more expensive, case and point there is a 2 bed flat (relatively big but not huge) i saw the other day for 1.5M GBP that's approx 1.87 million dollars