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Under ABA Standard 304(f), "[a] student may not be employed more than 20 hours per week in any week in which the student is enrolled in more than twelve class hours."</p>
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Thank</a> you for that post! Although I doubt that they'd have a way of really checking how much I work (I am an independent contractor), I am guessing that those rules were there for a reason. On the other hand, the little guy on my left shoulder has some great arguments in telling me to take it as a challenge and work over 50 hours while going full-time. Hmm...
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Law school is generally considered a large step up from undergrad. Part of the question is, too, what kind of students your peers would be in law school compared to your undergraduate school at Fresno. Would they be stronger? In that case, you might have to work harder to keep up compared to how hard you had to work (not very, from what you tell us) at Fresno. On the offchance that you think they'd be weaker, you might find law school to be even easier.</p>
<p>It's often hard to understand while in college -- I certainly found this difficult to conceptualize -- just how much of the difficulty of your course depends on your classmates. It's often more than you might think. Even if classes are not officially curved -- and they usually are -- the content matter covered is matter that's "appropriate" to classes from the past few years, and so there's always an implicit curve involved in the difficulty of the class.
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You bring up an interesting point. Are schools that are generally recognized as catering to more intelligent or at least, more academically focused students, harder than, for example, "state schools?" To be honest, from what I have read on here and from what I've heard from a student who claims to have received his first Bachelor's in business from Berkeley, and who took an upper division course with me at Fresno, "it depends on the major." In other words, just because the students of a school are more focused on their academics, does not mean that the school will have harder classes (in terms of content) or tougher grading (especially if a curve is not used).</p>
<p>Your point still stands in that law students probably have a higher standard for what "tough" means, granted that they have already gone through four years of college. They also typically find their expectation for law school to be tougher than their undergrad to be met, as far as I can tell. What intrigues me is that I cannot help but wonder if law grads are simply susceptible to the human nature to see more negative than positive in their recent experience and believe their old past (undergrad school) to be more nostalgic than it actually was.</p>
<p>P.S. I didn't mean to come off like I slacked around at college. I've always studied my arse off before exams, and the partying and the chilling, if any, were done on Saturdays after morning classes. My coworkers and friends often consider my lifestyle very dull, but I honestly enjoy it. I've also had the opportunity to have very intelligent people in my classes and my friends were definitely very hard working too. I guess I just work better under pressure and a large workload as I am forced to always stay focused, something that I tend to do very well. I'll take a stressful work environment with potential for great rewards over a laid-back so-so paying job any day; not just for the potential financial reward aspect, but because I get more of a sense of fulfillment from it.</p>