on the incoming class:
-there are approximately 169 students in the incoming Class of 2009.
-there are exactly 10 people who are clearly not Caucasion...oh, what the hell, white people. There are exactly 10 people who are clearly not white, aka the "minority group": 3 black people, 4 east asians (1 chinese, 1 korean, 1 thai and me--vietnamese!), 1 east Indian, 1 Pakistani and 1 hispanic. And everybody else is white, "as white as white can be."
-about 90% of the class is from the Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Oklahoma areas.
-there are 5 international students who actually traveled from China, India, etc. to come here for law school...here in Kansas City of all places.
-one of the black dudes just moved here from Virginia.
-I'm the only one representing California.
-About an eighth of the class are expecting their first child.
-I've never seen so many white people collected in one place.
on the different advice from the Administration:
-"law school is like a full time job. Expect to work 60-80 hours a week for your schoolwork. Then, after you graduate, you'll already be a pro at 80 hour work weeks."
-"All of you deserve to be here. However, if you plan on doing any of the following, I have one advice for you: if you are in the middle of a divorce, go home. If you are planning on getting a part-time job, go home. If you are just entering rehab and not stable enough to endure the stress of law school, go home. For the rest of you, WELCOME!"
-"Do not seperate yourself from the real world. Schedule in the normal things that you need to do. Make time to spend with your families. If you like to read slutty romance novels, read them. If you want to have sex all the time, have sex all the time. If you don't want to have sex all the time, don't have sex all the time."
-"on that last note about having sex, one of our alums heard me give that advice and about two months into the semester, she came up to me and said to me: 'Prof. remember when you said that if we wanted sex all the time, we should have sex all the time? Well, I'm pregnant.' And she graduated with honors and three beautiful children."
on the freebies the school gives out as a welcoming gift:
-free UMKC Law School lunch insulated lunch packs, packed with a laundry bag, barbeque sauce, and lots of coupons for free food and drinks in the surrounding area. Too bad I don't have a car to DRIVE to these places.
-cups and water bottles with BAR/BRI all over it. It serves as a great reminder of the stress inducing awful test I will have to take at the end of my 3 year law school career in order to a legally practicing attorney.
-lots and lots of luggage tags
-lots and lots of copies of cases to read before classes start.
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