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- Tiago Splitter
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Good idea to go and meet people but no one will care if you miss any of the orientation stuff. If there's something you were supposed to attend they'll send the recording of it and have you affirm you listened to it.
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Good to know, thanks. Any other general orientation tips?Tiago Splitter wrote:Good idea to go and meet people but no one will care if you miss any of the orientation stuff. If there's something you were supposed to attend they'll send the recording of it and have you affirm you listened to it.
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Nah just have a good time and enjoy the free stuff.
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Let's not kid ourselves here. Those bumper stickers cost us $85kTiago Splitter wrote: the free stuff.
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Your goal is to drink enough free alcohol to make that a bargain
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Any truth to the rumor that the first day's attire is "business formal"?
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*Sorry, by "first day", I actually meant orientation (all of orientation)*
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Oh I hadn't heard that rumor. I was planning on dressing rather casually, but I'd be interested to know if business formal during orientation is a thing
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Going by the pictures in the orientation emails (assuming those are from past year's orientation), things looks fairly casual. It's also going to be 90+.
I'm wearing khakis and a t-shirt. Worst case, I can go home during lunch and change.
I'm wearing khakis and a t-shirt. Worst case, I can go home during lunch and change.
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Is there actually another full day of panels tomorrow
Not sure I can make it through any more
Not sure I can make it through any more
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lol i feel the same way. Not really sure if I'll go to the SJI thing, but I'll go to everything between "Entering the Legal Profession" and "Sexual Respect Initiatives" as I think those are targeted towards everyone/something they'll likely take attendance atLetsGoMets wrote:Is there actually another full day of panels tomorrow
Not sure I can make it through any more
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I thought they were joking when the said they'd take attendance....still figured on going anyway though.jrc223 wrote:lol i feel the same way. Not really sure if I'll go to the SJI thing, but I'll go to everything between "Entering the Legal Profession" and "Sexual Respect Initiatives" as I think those are targeted towards everyone/something they'll likely take attendance atLetsGoMets wrote:Is there actually another full day of panels tomorrow
Not sure I can make it through any more
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Definitely some panel-fatigue here as well. Yesterday could have been 80% shorter and still been just as useful (ie. not particularly).
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lol in retrospect pretty sure they were srsstoopkid13 wrote:I thought they were joking when the said they'd take attendance....still figured on going anyway though.jrc223 wrote:lol i feel the same way. Not really sure if I'll go to the SJI thing, but I'll go to everything between "Entering the Legal Profession" and "Sexual Respect Initiatives" as I think those are targeted towards everyone/something they'll likely take attendance atLetsGoMets wrote:Is there actually another full day of panels tomorrow
Not sure I can make it through any more
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Shoutout to the people gunning in the professionalism panel
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lol, there were some bizarre and totally unnecessary Q's thrown out during that panel.
Though I did like when that guy called out the speaker on the past failings of the sexual assault office.
Though I did like when that guy called out the speaker on the past failings of the sexual assault office.
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If anyone is interested, found the voicemail that Jeremy Feinberg was talking about during the professionalism panel: http://www.kinsellalaw.com/2004/08/24/a ... -internet/
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Holy hell there were some awkward people during both days of orientation.
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Never realized how shitty my resume was until I started chatting with my classmates. Good grief at some of these people.
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Seems kind've dick-ish for that guy to release the voicemail tho.jrc223 wrote:If anyone is interested, found the voicemail that Jeremy Feinberg was talking about during the professionalism panel: http://www.kinsellalaw.com/2004/08/24/a ... -internet/
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- RSN
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"I graduated Yale with honors, volunteered with an international NGO in Burundi for a year, then was an analyst at Goldman Sachs, and spent the last year as a paralegal at Skadden where I helped partners draft memos and briefs."White Dwarf wrote:Never realized how shitty my resume was until I started chatting with my classmates. Good grief at some of these people.
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Yale undergrad w/ honors is easy. Over 60% of the grades they give out are A-range.LetsGoMets wrote:"I graduated Yale with honors, volunteered with an international NGO in Burundi for a year, then was an analyst at Goldman Sachs, and spent the last year as a paralegal at Skadden where I helped partners draft memos and briefs."White Dwarf wrote:Never realized how shitty my resume was until I started chatting with my classmates. Good grief at some of these people.
The NGO is cool, I guess, but mostly because they got to go somewhere exotic.
Goldman Sachs alums are a dine a dozen. Most get fired anyway.
Skadden paralegals might talk to partners every now than then. Assuming they're young, the partners don't like them enough for them to matter any more than a 1st year associate.
Whatever is on your resume is fine. The two of you ended up in the same place. In my mind that means they should be trying to figure out how you did it without the mountain of bullshit.
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I get that. I don't mean to imply that I'm intimidated academically by these people, it just makes the "so what about you?" questions a little uncomfortable.
Slight adjustment for me.LetsGoMets wrote: "I graduated from a lousy state school with honors, volunteered for a weekend at a soup kitchen because it got me bonus points on a test, then was a low level grunt at a company you've never heard of, and spent the last year trying to teach the LSAT to people who didn't care."
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Yeah, the fact that we're all 1Ls now seems to be a great equalizer, of age, experience, etc, which I don't think was the case as much starting undergrad.
In other news, that fiesta event was pretty awesome yesterday.
In other news, that fiesta event was pretty awesome yesterday.
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