So far, I'm really liking law school. I love the classes that count, even civil procedure. It is thoroughly enjoyable work. I even like my homework. I don't mind doing the reading, I love digging into the details of the cases, and I have yet to be bored by it. Sometimes it's hard, but it is a good sort of hard, a challenge rather than a burden.
It stands to reason, therefore, that I find something I dislike intensely. I suppose it's just impossible to go to school and like every single class you take.
Notice that above I qualified the classes I love as those courses that count. That's because there is one course, legal writing and research, that doesn't count. I will receive a grade for the course, but it doesn't go into my GPA calculation.
Things got off to a bad start in the first day. We went around the room, giving our biographies. Of course by then all of us knew each other, so it was really just for the instructor's benefit.
When I gave my bio, I ended with me quitting my job in June.
LWR instructor, laughing knowingly: You mean you were laid off.
Me: Uh, no. [Ed.: And so what if I had been? I know lots of good people who have been laid off. What business is it of his?]
LWR instructor, clearly skeptical: Oh, really?
Me: Um, yeah, I'm pretty sure I quit.
LWR instructor: doesn't say anything further, but arches his eyebrows at me.
We go around the room, and we get to my friend S.
S.: I worked as a software engineer...
LWR instructor, sarcastically: So I suppose you quit too.
S., startled: Uh, yes.
LWR instructor, pointedly: All my software engineer clients were laid off, and I find they're totally unrealistic about what the law means and what it can do for you.
Nice guy, eh?
Things have not improved in this class. I absolutely hate it. I resent the homework and I spend as little time on the class as I can possibly get away with.
However, every single time I get frustrated with it, which is more or less every time I think of it, I follow up that frustrated thought with a little chant:
"It doesn't count. It doesn't count. It doesn't count. It DOES NOT count."
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Sounds like my experience with Fed Income Tax.....had a prof that was more interested in showing how much he knew and how little we did and how much better than we were he was. I absolutely hated that class and avoid any class taught by that prof with dear life. Hang in there. "It doesn't count, It doesn't count..." wish I could have said that! LOL
Amazing. You really have to wonder about the teacher who makes a big deal about himself, but is teaching the class that doesn't count.
BTW: I bet he has no idea about computers and what they can do for him.
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