This Is News To Me

It's probably news to most SWLAW professors as well.

I suppose I can see the professor's point in that the exam will show you just how much you have learned. Of course, most of us law students tend to focus instead on how much we didn't learn.

This Is Just A Wild Guess

But I think Christopher's mom was the official photographer at SWLAW's inaugural Barrister's Ball.

I Think We All Know Who Has Been Stuffing This Ballot Box

And just to beat him to it, we also all know that he would like to stuff Britt's "ballot box."

All The Changes Make Me Feel Old

So instead of focusing on this paper due tomorrow, I've been thinking about the days gone by at Southwestern and how much has changed over that time.

• I remember back when you had to earn your C+'s at Southwestern, nowadays they're giving away B's like everyone is a 3L in a class of less than 20.
• I remember back when you had to play spider solitaire to pass away the time in class, nowadays you can go online wirelessly from any classroom and check MySpace.
• I remember back when there were no benches, patio furniture, grass, or donated bricks in the promenade, we actually had to sit our asses on asphalt if we wanted to sit out in the promenade.
• I remember back when the corner taco stand had a grade of “C”, now they’re an “A” showing that the new grading curve at Southwestern could have been better still.
• I remember back when the food from the corner taco stand was pretty tasty.
• I remember back when the Awards Banquet for the honors programs was referred to as "prom", nowadays there's also a Barrister's Ball which has become the actual law school prom.
• I remember back when the doughnuts at the vending machine were going for a dollar, nowadays they're $1.25.
• I remember back when you didn't have to pay for a side of salad dressing at the Tea Room.
  
• I remember back when you could download onto your computer past exams, nowadays it’s copy and paste and the formatting is all eff’d up.

The one constant since the beginning to this day? The crappiness of this blog. It’s never been about quality, it used to be about quantity, now it’s just about being consistently crappy. Nothing like staying regular I suppose.

Beethoven's Third I Think

So everyone was up at the second floor of Westmoreland last night and by everyone I mean all of ITAP plus one filipino and a few strangers here and there. And those fuckers from ITAP were loud and noisy as they prepared for their final mock trial, which is fine by me since I know there are better places than the second floor of Westmoreland for peace and quiet to study, especially when ITAP is around. Of course, one law student, actually studying for finals, took exception and put on her headphones to listen to some classical music. I, nor anyone else, would have noticed except that she had plugged in her headphones into the microphone jack rather than the appropriate headphone jack. For a while, the serious and obviously cultured law student didn't notice her mistake and only turned the volume up higher and higher on her laptop probably wondering what was wrong with either the audio on her laptop, her headphones, or wondering just how loud those fuckers from ITAP can be. It wasn't until her music filled the second floor and everyone else quieted down to get a sense of where that music was coming from that she finally realized her mistake.

Anyway, Brian could hardly contain himself and shared that he did something similar once with this song - be sure to turn your volume way up to have the same effect his sleeping roommate had.