College Class 2018

<p>I don’t have enough time. My first exam is in 2 weeks.</p>

<p>Orientation week starts soon and I’m looking forward to all the festivities (and free food)! I have a lot of free time in my schedule as well, but I feel like on the quarter system I’ll be bogged down with midterms and exams pretty soon, lol.</p>

<p>On a side note–do you guys like the direction this site seems to be going? I feel like parts of CC are starting to turn into Yahoo Answers and the community is a lot less active as well. I don’t know. The atmosphere on here has changed since I joined last year, and I kind of wish things would go back to the way they were before. Maybe it’s just me, and I’m only feeling this way because despite its name, College Confidential is really meant for high school students the same way the Grad Cafe and all the other pre-professional sites are intended for those who haven’t quite gotten there yet. </p>

<p>I think you’re right that this site seems a lot more directed towards college admissions (i.e. high schoolers) than anything else; but then again, I don’t think many of us have time for CC with college and whatnot. I guess it’s all for the best. </p>

<p>Update.
I made more meaningful friendships in my first three weeks of college than all 4 years of high school. </p>

<p>got an internship!</p>

<p>i just transfer to csub and i hate it and i hate the dorm
i don’t have any friends </p>

<p>I’m ASMing a play, and I’m in Mock trial! People here are so nice. I haven’t made real friends yet (the people I hang out with talk about stupid things and curse every other word which bothers me), but everyone is willing to talk to you and be nice.</p>

<p>It’s mid-term exam week at my school. I’m still working on following through my (study) goals of the day. </p>

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I’m doing mock trial at my school too!</p>

<p>@Vctory‌ What tournaments does your school go to? Maybe we’ll be at the same ones lol</p>

<p>This is my sixth week of college. I really like it. I like that the professors don’t care about the petty things that high school teachers cared about. I already had exams in all of my classes and got A’s on all of them, except my one sociology quiz that I got a B on. The professor for that class puts more emphasis on lab reports than quizzes, which I think is great because it’s a better indicator of what you actually learned. The final exam schedule comes out tomorrow. Can’t believe it!</p>

<p>@superstarlala A huge amount! We have a few teams going to Penn State, Drexel, and Temple for October. What tournaments are you guys going to?</p>

<p>This is my third official week of college, I think? I like it here. It’s definitely different than high school and I find myself having a lot of free time, especially since I’m taking a class online and another at a nearby CC (yay for the convoluted life of a guaranteed transfer). At least Intro Chem is in the classroom, if you can call a lecture hall of 700 kids a classroom…</p>

<p>Socially, it’s been fun. There are a lot of clubs and activities to join on campus, and there’s always something going on . With my weird schedule I get out of class really early, so usually I go back to my dorm room to work on some assignments before going to some events in the late afternoon and maybe grabbing some dinner with friends. I don’t know–it’s a pretty quiet collegiate existence, but I’m really enjoying it. </p>

<p>@Vctory‌ I’m personally going to Brandeis, Tufts and UNH, but we also have teams going to UPenn</p>

<p>Mock trial members - are you guys pre-law? What makes you want to be a lawyer & what kind of lawyer do you want to be? </p>

<p>I’m taking a class on Healthcare Policy & just wrote a paper on pharmaceutical industry law. Pretty interesting stuff, I’ve always enjoyed reading and am good at logical & analytical thinking. Doing some soul-searching lol.</p>

<p>@teenbodybuilder‌ - Terrible time to be a lawyer; you should be doing some soul searching on the Economist and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, lol. But we do really need some good Healthcare Policy/Pharma lawyers - Pharmaceutical companies are some of the most unethical institutions in the country. Did you see the piece on 60 minutes last night about the cost of cancer drugs? Terrifying stuff. </p>

<p>I got an A on my first college essay. Very pleased. Probably gonna be my last, though. I passed in some total BS in the past two weeks. Kinda scared to see how they turn out. </p>

<p>@preamble1776‌ </p>

<p>You think a Georgetown-educated law school applicant/lawyer (I’d probably get in to a T14) would have trouble finding a solid job? Even after DC internships? I already have 2 years full time experience on Capitol Hill and can probably get into a law firm or with a Congressman for another internship. My impression was that the T14 private sector field is and always will be strong. </p>

<p>My problem is that I just don’t know what I want to do and what I’d be good at. I’m great at humanities and chemistry, and I’m good with numbers but not good at doing abstract math. I enjoy writing and debating. I’m currently pre-medical but I’m finding biology uninteresting & miss my humanities even though I’m killing it in chemistry and my health policy class. </p>

<p>I don’t get normal cable but I’ll try to find the episode online somewhere.</p>

<p>“You think a Georgetown-educated law school applicant/lawyer (I’d probably get in to a T14) would have trouble finding a solid job? Even after DC internships? I already have 2 years full time experience on Capitol Hill and can probably get into a law firm or with a Congressman for another internship.”</p>

<p>I bet you wear salmon shorts </p>

<p>@teenbodybuilder - GULC is usually regarded as the worst out of the T-14 in terms of job prospects – about 83.7% find long term legal employment according to LST. Only 41.4% of that are employed in large law firms that have 25 or more lawyers (typically referred to as BIGLAW and is associated with the white shoe type salaries). It isn’t so much that you’d have trouble finding a job per se, it might just be that you’d find trouble finding a job that can relieve law school sized debt. Granted, I don’t know your family’s finances or willingness/ability to help you - debt might not even be a problem, in which case, you’re pretty well off in terms of your prospects, just for a lot of people the issue with law school is the crippling debt and the not-so-impressive lawyer salary they manage. (I didn’t know if you meant Georgetown educated lawyer as in undergrad or GULC, I assumed the latter, that’s why I talked about their employment statistics; if its the former, ignore this.) </p>

<p>On another note, your undergraduate internships, while impressive, will mean little in terms of law school admissions specifically. Law school is incredibly number driven and the majority of what law schools will focus on with your application is your GPA/LSAT (80-90% of your application) where as the other 10-20% will be your personal statement, “softs” (extracurriculars/awards/distinctions short of Rhodes or military service), recommendations/references, etc. Similarly, while your internships in law school might give you a leg up, law is heavily pedigree based, so your job opportunities will depend largely on where you went to law school and how you did there.</p>

<p>I’m unsure of what role undergraduate prestige plays in legal employment - I know in law school admissions it has a negligible effect (unless you go to HYP, law schools don’t care if you went to Podunk or NYU, so long as you have a strong GPA and LSAT) – GTown alum who are in the DC legal market (and I imagine there’s quite a few) might appreciate your degree and it’ll be advantageous for getting your foot in the door (maybe; still unsure) but outside of DC, I think the influence wanes and the focus is entirely on your law degree. </p>

<p>I think that you can be very successful in law, it just entails very careful planning - it is a huge investment both time and money wise and to make the best investment means doing some serious thinking very early on about what it is exactly that you want. </p>

<p>Only from Vineyard Vines! </p>

<p>:)) </p>

<p>Will look into it more. </p>

<p>•At Georgetown for ugrad, but would like to remain here for grad unless I got into a better school. Specifically, I was wondering how the GU undergrad prestige plays in law school admissions & then how GU Law School prestige plays in getting a job. There’s a program to get early auto-acceptance to GU Law with no LSAT during junior year. Obviously if I did not get in early, I would take the LSAT and continue to apply to other schools. </p>

<p>•I’m assuming I get the grades and test scores to be competitive, so my various internships would just be something to set me apart and talk about in the interview. </p>

<p>•Will only have minimal if any debt. </p>