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| Date | Title | Body |
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| 2 days 21 hours ago | Grass not tall enough at SC |
Grass not tall enough at SC for layin in the weeds. -Mork |
| 4 weeks 3 days ago | No LJ, not saying that at |
No LJ, not saying that at all. I'd say 60% got BigLaw (estimate - 2011 grad). My less-than-clear point was that the top 1/3 are the only people guaranteed BigLaw. Many of my friends who struggled to find anything were around the median or just above that. Once you're outside of the top third at Columbia, you're no longer a lock, and firms want other things - connections, diversity, maybe work experience, etc. It's not that people from 50% to 33% uniformly had issues, just that the guarantee disappears after 33%. And because you can't guarantee top 1/3 going in (especially at a school like Northwestern, for example, but also anywhere), taking the necessary debt on can be more than a little dangerous. I'm lucky to be at my first choice firm, but I recognize that it easily could have gone differently if I had screwed up a couple of tests first year. Law school + massive debt is risky at a T14, it's nuts almost anywhere else. |
| 4 weeks 3 days ago | Just to emphasize, since the |
Just to emphasize, since the other person agreeing with this got moderated into gray - THIS IS BAD ADVICE. You absolutely cannot justify going into $180k-ish of debt to go to the schools you're thinking about. It's a dangerous risk at the T-14 schools, but it's batshit crazy at anything outside of them. You've got a big enough scholarship at MSU that, if you are dead-set on being a lawyer, it would not be insane to take it. But you have to 1) deeply consider the opportunity cost, as others have mentioned, 2) understand that only 5-10 people (if that) from MSU per year get jobs paying $160k, and 3) assume that you will not be one of those 10 people. Way too many of my classmates at Columbia figured that they would be in at least the top 1/3 of the class and would be guaranteed BigLaw (something more plausible there). Some were, but others were not, and now they face crippling debt that is essentially permanent with gov't jobs paying very little. And that's at a top 5 school. At MSU, you have essentially no chance at getting a job that pays a great deal of money, and "MidLaw" jobs (aka those that pay $80k-100k per year) are outrageously competitive and there are almost none of them. So if you're set on law school, it would be criminal to your family not to take the money unless you're going to Michigan, Columbia, NYU, Harvard, etc. Think about any other option you might have, but if you pick law school, you HAVE TO take the money, period. |
| 5 weeks 1 day ago | Quick edit:"GET INTO THE |
Quick edit: "...GET INTO THE OTHER LANE AND SLOW THE FUCK DOWN." Can't imagine something like this happening at 18. My heart goes out to the kid. |
| 6 weeks 5 days ago | As a Knicks fan - PLEASE GOD |
As a Knicks fan - PLEASE GOD TAKE HIM. Before he can even talk to that fat idiot Dolan. Please. Hurry. HURRY |
| 20 weeks 19 hours ago | This kind of feeds into what |
This kind of feeds into what you're getting at, and they didn't talk about it last night, but isn't the rule that if the ball hits the ground as the receiver is making a catch, the ball can't move? I'm pretty sure that's the NFL rule and why the elbow didn't matter. |
| 22 weeks 1 day ago | But this assumes that anybody |
But this assumes that anybody was actually choosing Marshall over Michigan (or for basketball, George Mason over UNC) in the first place. It then assumes that, of the tiny number of athletes who actually make such decisions, a meaningful percentage of them would be swayed by what is at that point (once you've already made a decision based so significantly on non-sports factors) a measly $2,000 per year. If your argument is that it will shift talent away from, say, the Southern Miss-es of the world and to the Rutgers-es of the world (assuming that Rutgers is almost a comparable football program, which is an exagerration but go with it for now), there might be a small impact and you have a minor point. But with smaller conferences exclusively, I'm OK with Marist pulling a recruit every 4 years from Alabama A&M that it might not have ended up with otherwise, or vice versa. Ultimately, it seems deeply unlikely that this minor stipend will affect competitive balance in any meaningful way. |
| 24 weeks 15 hours ago | Hopefully he can turn the tide on the rivalry |
Selling UNC jerseys in Durham is a good start. |
| 27 weeks 5 days ago | No kidding? |
Damn it, good edit on the earlier identical response. I'm hoping the US can show something - they've really struggled since JK has taken over (not that I think it was a bad decision, just an adjustment period). I'm also ready to see Adu again at some point. |
| 27 weeks 6 days ago | Horford looked so-so. The |
Horford looked so-so. The rumor is that Morgan has been sick, and that's why he hasn't been starting. |
