Its July and I have homework.

So its July, and I just got a large packet in the mail with some stuff to read that I am supposed to write briefs for. That's no big deal, I am used to heavy amounts of work since I went to graduate school before I decided to go to Law School. However, what I do find annoying is the required reading of the succeeding in Law School material. Firstly, there are actual assignments in there due at orientation. I know that its probably meant for the best, but I am 29 years old, I have a Masters degree, I know how to allocate my time, and I don't need 250 pages telling me Hey, Guess What Law School is hard. What I find interesting is the a lot of reads as a manual telling the student that we have crappy teachers but that shouldn't effect your learning or your exam scores. Which is true, because dedicated students do well regardless of the professors quality, but they seem to be leaving out the fact of how much harder it is to well if the teacher is crap. There are also several parts in the manual that I find quite pretentious and none of their business, such as there admonishment that we should be doing something physical for 45 minutes everyday, and that we should be able to find time for that. Right, like in the manual they are already telling us that we will be working 10 hours a day minimum for law school, now they want us to cram an hour's worth of physical activity into each day as well. Also we are supposed to allow time for meditation each day as well, and the packet even contains a meditation primer, which frankly is just ridiculous. Some people meditate I guess, others meditate with a beer and sportscenter. Just a bit to pretentious for my tastes. This is Law School, not a M.A. in Holistic Therapy.

Financial Aid

I will take a second to vent how much I hate financial aid offices. I think that is the job that nobody wants so bad employees get sent there as punishment. Its hard to get anything done, and it seems that the people there feel that the have the upmost power over you and that somehow it makes them better than you because you depend on their processing your financial aid. The worst one I ever dealt with was some D-bag MBA student in my undergrad school. He approached every dealing I had with him as if he was a corporate CEO forcing a take over on my small company. I have been to a few schools, and its been like this at everyone of them, maybe the job just makes people bitter and mean.