College is about maximizing the knowledge given to you to yield the results you desire. There is no fucking way to read every text and study every single thing to a certainty of knowledge.
Some things are a cursory once over so IF it comes up later you know where to look. But a lot of it is just tangents. But testing you on tangents not in the text or study guides? Man. You had it rough.
American law schools are their own strange subculture of the education world, graduate school but not really research degrees (though a species of research is in some ways the heart of the exercise), professional schools but full of stuffy academics, and deeply, weirdly hierarchical and full of completely unearned egos. There are very few Richard Feynmans even in the finest law schools.
No one is (generally) allowed to represent clients without passing the Bar Exam, so professors feel emboldened to indulge their own personal quirks, whether that’s psychologically attempting to weed people out or simply washing their hands of any responsibility for their students’ success whatsoever.
I didn’t actually dislike the guy (he really was quite the character), but it’s fair to say that his idiosyncratic method of teaching didn’t resonate with me. After a rather stressful first semester of trying to play the game exactly so, I was doing okay, but as it went on I realized that the reward for spending all your time and doing well in law school is stuff that basically makes law school never end (big commercial jobs with 2000+ billable hours, judicial clerkships, etc.), and that LAW SCHOOL SUCKS. My GPA is thus like a modestly sloped roller coaster, going up at the start and fading for the rest of the ride, finally leveling out when I took my last semester pass/fail as a visiting student to make my long-distance relationship not long-distance.
I think mine was up and down too. I am not a lawyer and only have an undergraduate degree. However I have def had the professor that did not resonate with me. I can think of at least two that just did not work as intended. Luckily I passed both classes. But it was only because I figured out how to pass their class. Not because I took away a massive amount of applicable knowledge.
College is about maximizing the knowledge given to you to yield the results you desire. There is no fucking way to read every text and study every single thing to a certainty of knowledge.
Some things are a cursory once over so IF it comes up later you know where to look. But a lot of it is just tangents. But testing you on tangents not in the text or study guides? Man. You had it rough.
American law schools are their own strange subculture of the education world, graduate school but not really research degrees (though a species of research is in some ways the heart of the exercise), professional schools but full of stuffy academics, and deeply, weirdly hierarchical and full of completely unearned egos. There are very few Richard Feynmans even in the finest law schools.
No one is (generally) allowed to represent clients without passing the Bar Exam, so professors feel emboldened to indulge their own personal quirks, whether that’s psychologically attempting to weed people out or simply washing their hands of any responsibility for their students’ success whatsoever.
I didn’t actually dislike the guy (he really was quite the character), but it’s fair to say that his idiosyncratic method of teaching didn’t resonate with me. After a rather stressful first semester of trying to play the game exactly so, I was doing okay, but as it went on I realized that the reward for spending all your time and doing well in law school is stuff that basically makes law school never end (big commercial jobs with 2000+ billable hours, judicial clerkships, etc.), and that LAW SCHOOL SUCKS. My GPA is thus like a modestly sloped roller coaster, going up at the start and fading for the rest of the ride, finally leveling out when I took my last semester pass/fail as a visiting student to make my long-distance relationship not long-distance.
I think mine was up and down too. I am not a lawyer and only have an undergraduate degree. However I have def had the professor that did not resonate with me. I can think of at least two that just did not work as intended. Luckily I passed both classes. But it was only because I figured out how to pass their class. Not because I took away a massive amount of applicable knowledge.