I thought I would make a little post about some of the different "types" that you can run into in a law school which I had never previously experienced in all my long years of education. For some reason, law school seems to just pull these people out of the woodwork and disperse them to annoy us "average" students who just want to get along and not draw too much attention to ourselves. Please note that all names have been disguised to protect the not-so-innocent, but these are actual conversations that I or my friends have been witness to in the past year and a half.
Type #1- The Gunner (aka "That guy," as in, don't be "that guy")
These are the people who seem to know everything about everything, have already read the entire casebook before the class even starts, and generally think that they are smarter than the professor. They also talk in "smart people" voices (think the boss from Office Space). Some choice tidbits from the gunners in my class.
"I'm glad that there are people like you around to round out the curve," said to a student who expressed the belief that she is not extremely competitive in class.
"Well, if law school doesn't work out, you can always be a billings clerk," said to me upon learning that I was an administrative assistant for 9 months between undergrad and law school.
To the professor who wrote the casebook used in our class, "Well, as you wrote in your book..."
I could go on and on.
Needless to say, these people tend to irk me just a little bit.
Type #2- The What-Planet-Are-You-From Guy
Ok, I only have one really good story for this guy but here it goes and it came from a close friend of mine (let's call her Janine)
So Janine is in the student lounge area studying when THPAYF Guy comes up to her and...
THPAYF Guy: Hey Janine, are you going to the girl's restroom anytime soon?
Janine: Umm, I don't know, why?
THPAYF Guy: Well, I heard that there is a list of the 10 hottest guys in the 1L class on the wall in the girl's bathroom and I wanted you to tell me what number I am.
Janine: Ummm, I don't know what you are talking about (to herself- if there was one, you wouldn't be on it).
Where do these people come from?
Type #3- The Professor that's just sooo good at being mean
Seems like every 1L class is subjected to one of these, a professor who makes Professor Kingsfield from The Paper Chase seem like a pussy cat (mine was even my contracts professor)!
Choice comments from this guy:
"That's the second dumbest thing I've heard all day."
"I'm going to get you some ballet shoes so that you can dance around the question a little more."
Hilarious when directed at someone else, not so much fun when coming at you, this guy actually made me forget the name of my Civ. Pro. professor because I was so intimidated when he asked me in class.
Another miscellaneous comment from people in my class that I thought were hilarious, or unbelievable-
The girl who during discussion of the U.S. v. VMI case in Con. Law (this is the one that forced VMI to let girls in), said "I just don't understand why women are trying to be men by being soldiers, why don't you just let the men do that, what woman would want to be in the army?" Huh? Why are you in law school, you are trying to enter a traditionally male dominated field, shouldn't you just let the men be lawyers? just blows my mind.
Ok, I'm going to stop now, who knows, maybe I am someone else's annoying personality type? Well, turnaround is fair play, lol.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
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You could never be boring. I had a professor like that once too. On the first day of class included in his speech about how most of us were gonna fail that his daughter was strong as an ox because of his harshness and how she could shoot a gun and knock the apple off the top of his head. He was nuts. The other professor that was rough but that i did like used to say things like "i made a mistake once. i bought a pencil with an eraser." and "when i get home tonight, i'll pour a glass of whiskey and grade your papers. I will throw your papers up the stairs and those that make it to the top will be a's, the second b's etc." He was funny about it but was a hard teacher to get an a out of let alone a b.
ReplyDeleteGlad to know its not just law school profs! Geez, sounds like your undergrad. profs were much harder than mine!
ReplyDeleteYAY fellow law student. Where are you at? I'm at GSU in ATL. LOL @ your categories. I have one more but I dont know how to categorize them. I have one in each class. The one who wants to share how she has a story that she can relate this too. In Torts we were learning about wrongful life... and she says "my mom smoked cigarette's when she was preggo with me and I got hooked on drugs..." the whole class is turning red with discomfort.... AHHHH :)I dont know what you would call her. I call her my main contestant on a game me and my friends have called "Idiot Bingo!" Weve never actually played it but take a list of the most annoying people in class and prepare them on a bingo like card. Each tie they say something dumb cross off the one who said it till you have four in a row :). Then the winner must randomly say BINGO in class :) Yeah... we're al talk though.. none of us would ever have the nerve to yell out bingo in class. But still its a fun little fantasy :)
ReplyDeleteHa ha, we play that game too, we call it gunner bingo. I'm at Emory, 2L.
ReplyDeletegunner bingo is quality. im a big fan of working random TV (24 works well) quotes into answers.
ReplyDeleteAnything to keep the gunners quiet. And well fed.