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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:12 PM Author: Internet-worthy lake liquid oxygen dopamine Check out the livejournal of this fantastic specimen of gunner asshole-ery.
http://oslo.livejournal.com/ |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:15 PM Author: Claret Hateful Orchestra Pit He sounds like a run-of-the-mill anxious 1L.
Blogging nervously about 1L grades does not a gunner make. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:17 PM Author: bright domesticated fat ankles What a faggot.
What an abortion of a 1L class. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:17 PM Author: Medicated chocolate hunting ground half-breed i dont see this guy as a gunner at all. whats the big deal here. he's gay? so what. he's anxious about grades? who wasnt?
sorry, you'll have to point out what i was supposed to see funny here... |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:19 PM Author: bright domesticated fat ankles "My numbers admit that I'm not the most brilliant person ever, only marginally in the top 10%, if at all." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438669) |
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Date: March 1st, 2007 10:14 PM Author: glittery base indirect expression havard, actually. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7695155) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:28 PM Author: Internet-worthy lake liquid oxygen dopamine Look, whoever this is could be a perfectly reasonable guy. But things like... he used to consider his classmates his intellectual coequals, but has since had to reconsider? That's just a bit much. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438739) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:38 PM Author: Claret Hateful Orchestra Pit Yeah, actually, you're right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438817) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:14 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life *shrugs* The paraphrase is out of context. I still feel like I'm in a room with a bunch of really smart, competent people, every time I go to class. I just don't understand why it seems so many haven't thought more about "justice." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439027) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:19 PM Author: Demanding Tan Abode Dude, for you own benefit: please give up the ghost on this one. You're fighting a losing battle on here. For your own sense of sanity, just pretend this board doesn't exist. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439047) |
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Date: May 7th, 2008 11:18 PM Author: burgundy appetizing crackhouse corn cake lol. TITCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#9751936) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:20 PM Author: Chest-beating razzle immigrant ...you're losing defenders by posting things like that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439053) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:22 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life I apologize, then. I guess I'm just clueless. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439066) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:26 PM Author: orchid casino private investor You do realize that people are going to mock you behind your back for the rest of your career here for stuff like this, right? My god, I still get called out on stuff I did during weeks one and two. This is far worse.
Kids not thinking about "justice!" Jaysus fucking christ, I'd want to pimpslap you if I was a 1L. This will get around so fast your head will spin. Never forget how small and insular each LS class is.
EDIT: Look, if you back down and keep a low profile for the rest of the year, you probably won't be thought of as a first-class asshole for the next two. Otherwise your name will become just as legendary (in a bad way) to your class as certain names have to ours.
I'm not just trying to flame you here, dood - people thought of me as a grade-A gunner for the first half of the 1L year myself. You seem like a sharp kid, kind of unsocialized but not all that bad. Don't get pegged. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:54 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life Well, I know *now*!
But, yeah. I'll try to laugh about it. Hopefully no one will spit on me tomorrow. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:28 PM Author: Chest-beating razzle immigrant It's just that saying something like "why don't people think more about justice" makes you fit the definition of gunner that the board despises. Don't take it too personally. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439097) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:30 PM Author: Demanding Tan Abode Tell me about it. Dude hits .279 for his career, with 300+ HR added on and I've heard nary a mention of his name in my 2 years of law school. Where's the fucking justice in that?!?! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439119) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:33 PM Author: orchid casino private investor 177.
This one almost got lost in the flood. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:32 PM Author: Gay Useless Incel "I just don't understand why it seems so many haven't thought more about 'justice.'"
lol . . . please be elaborate flame. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:33 PM Author: orchid casino private investor One look at this guy's picture should make it fairly obvious he's not elaborate flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439129) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:46 PM Author: Gay Useless Incel ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439201) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:19 PM Author: Clear Excitant Sound Barrier He actually posted his NUMBERS.
http://oslo.livejournal.com/98208.html#cutid1 |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:22 PM Author: Medicated chocolate hunting ground half-breed ok, what is "elements"? is that Legal Writing & research? if so, why not just call it what everyone else calls it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438691) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:23 PM Author: bright domesticated fat ankles No, Elements is some theoretical bullshit fluff class that Chicago requires all 1L's to take. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438707) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:44 PM Author: Clear Excitant Sound Barrier BEFORE IT WENT PRIVATE, IT SAID:
The last I'd "officially" heard, grades were not set to be out until the end of the month. However, rumors had been floating around that the grades would be posted yesterday. So the last couple of days, I've had periods of fitful sleep, filled with dreams obsessing on my grades and what would happen if I "failed"—got a "C"—in any of my classes. The grades are finally in, and I have mine.
Now, grades at the UofC Law School are kind of weird. We're graded on a scale of 160ish to 186, with grades less than 160 being "failing," and grades above 167 required for credit. A weighted GPA of 179 or better is required to graduate with Honors, 180.5 for High Honors, and 182 for Highest Honors. They translate the individual grades as follows: A = 180-186, B = 174-179, C = 168-173, D = 160-167. For classes with 50 or more students (which would be all of mine this year save for LRW), professors are required to distribute A's and C's more or less equally. Since my f-list seems fine, for the most part, speaking frankly about law-school grades, I'll present them below, but I'll cut them for those who read who'd rather not get involved in all that potential DRA-MAH (see, ECL, I'm always thinking about you...):
Elements = 179
Civ Pro = 180
So, in sum, I'm feeling mildly encouraged by my grades. I'm not the top of the class, but I'm not horribly middling, either. My better grade was in the class that mattered, since Elements and the Elements exam wasn't so much about learning the law an |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:13 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life Yeah, so that's me. I admit that the post was stupid and probably bad taste (I don't really have anything you could call "taste"). Ha ha, good fun.
I locked down the journal entry in question, but I came here so as to make the berating more efficient. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:19 PM Author: Swashbuckling market ape how do you feel about the fact that this thread will come up when anyone googles your name from now on? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439044) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:21 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life Pretty damn nervous, I'll admit that.
But I made that commitment a long time ago, when I was posting publicly. I wasn't going to live afraid that some future employer would google my name and find unsavory admissions or posts. I don't want to live in a world where the online community is locked down by that fear, so I wasn't living under it. And look what's happened!
But, oh well. You can't erase the Internet. I'll certainly be more cautious in the future. We'll just have to see what happens. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:26 PM Author: Swashbuckling market ape yeah, that sucks. you do come off as a douche on your blog -- but no worse than a lot of 1ls at any top school, so you probably don't deserve this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439083) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:02 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life *nods* Well, I'll try to work on it then.
Thing is that I was writing for an audience other than what I got. A lot of my family reads my LJ, and I've got a few LJ-friends. That's who I was writing for. From here on out, I suppose I'll write with the awareness that students at my school may be reading in greater numbers than I'd expected. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:08 PM Author: comical point mad cow disease This is probably a bull shit add on to the all the crap you've taken so far, but the constant use of the word "like" in your writing detracted from it. I understand live journal is not scholarly writing, but "like" made the entries incongruent.
Edit: Your writing was high level, especially considering the medium. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:26 PM Author: Medicated chocolate hunting ground half-breed if this is the case, i actually applaud you. you should NOT try to hide everything and if you want to blog, the only thing you should worry about is if you get caught up in waht people say. of course they'll have opinions. but dont let their opinons affect you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439085) |
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Date: May 8th, 2008 3:10 AM Author: Hairraiser infuriating personal credit line center http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNOmIEtjbN8 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#9753474) |
Date: January 17th, 2007 5:30 PM Author: bright domesticated fat ankles Haha, he removed his grades already. He got a 179 in Elements and a 180 in Civ Pro. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438763) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:36 PM Author: Medicated chocolate hunting ground half-breed impressive. he should stop whining. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438804) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:37 PM Author: bright domesticated fat ankles "And it's true; I "could have done better" than I did. Just like I could have done better than my 172 LSAT more than a year ago."
What a douchebag. He should post on here. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:19 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life So here I am.
I didn't get this flak when I posted the score on my journal a year ago. It makes me wonder what was different here. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:39 PM Author: Internet-worthy lake liquid oxygen dopamine This is the point. The grades are very good, he's clearly very smart... it's akin to the poster last year who feigned total ignorance about the curve and asked if a 181 was a good grade. Ambition and general nervousness about grades is one thing... self-aggrandizement is quite another. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438826) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:17 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life I wasn't trying to self-aggrandize. I have a few law student friends at other schools on my f-list who have posted their grades, and I thought it was just, you know, share and share alike.
I felt like it's the sort of thing you confide in friends. That's what I was trying to do, that's all.
This whole episode sure is cutting me down a notch, though. Feel safe in that. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:28 PM Author: Internet-worthy lake liquid oxygen dopamine I had forgotten how crazed xoxo posters can be. Generalized hilarity brought on by gunner-y comments was my only goal-- the intention was not to link any sort of name. Self-awareness is good, but I wasn't going for... well, apparently what xoxo does, which I didn't realize. So, feel free to hate away-- I can take it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439100) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:05 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life I'm over it. Just so long as I don't get spit on, I'll stay over it, too.
I've been online long enough to know it's my just desert. I came to law school expecting there to be gunners, and for a while I thought I knew who they were. I just have to figure out what I'm doing wrong, I guess, without giving up my genuine interest in the material. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:07 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum >>I just have to figure out what I'm doing wrong, I guess, without giving up my genuine interest in the material.<<
a) More out-of-class interaction with the profs, less in-class interaction with them.
b) Find the other 1Ls in your class that are just as enthusiastic as you. I guarantee they exist. Discuss the things that interest you with them. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:24 PM Author: Gay Useless Incel I remember that douchebag. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439076) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:27 PM Author: orchid casino private investor I do too. I was convinced it was jimpop for awhile. Actually, I'm still not entirely sure it wasn't...
just kidding, jimpop! Bring back my fucking Velvet Underground boxed set tomorrow, plz! |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:40 PM Author: Zippy institution people who are hurt those grades are lame
anyone with those grades sucksz bad
def not WLRK material |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:40 PM Author: fishy business firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438836) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:42 PM Author: fishy business firm and now the entry is gone completely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438847) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:41 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station "How did I get to be the fucking gunner anyway, huh? I don't even study all that much. I ask questions in class, that's how I got to be the gunner.
Dudes, I care. I'm paying 60K a year to go this fucking school, I'm not going to worry about being all cool and shit and pretending like I don't care about what we're studying. What kinda high school is this?
I don't even care that much. There are like a few things that trip my trigger. Most of the time I'm surfing just like every fucking one else. SURFING. Like, the internet. And I'm the gunner because I'm asking a few questions because I'm pissed the professor is using a biased textbook.
Fucking tools. Suck your own cocks.
Have I closed all my italics tags?"
LOLZ |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:43 PM Author: Fiercely-loyal painfully honest bawdyhouse prole Asking questions? Biased Textbook? Yep, you're a gunner dude. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:44 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station srsly (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438857) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:24 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life I was DRUNK when I wrote that post. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439073) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:29 PM Author: Swashbuckling market ape i'm not sure that using drunkenness as an excuse for your posts is going to help with any prospective employers who end up reading this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439106) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:13 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life Imagine... drunk on a Saturday night. I haven't done that in like... ever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439344) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:22 PM Author: comical point mad cow disease So, can you explain the valley girl aspect of your writing patterns? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439380) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:50 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life It's actually a legitimate expression of my social speech-patterns. To an extent.
This is why *I don't get it.* I'm a flake. A procrastinator (I've been doing this for the past several hours). All of that. I don't go to the bars every week; I stay home and play video games or webbernet instead. I crammed like everyone else for exams--I even started after most of my friends. But I'm the "gunner!"
What do I have to do to avoid that label? Transfer? |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:31 PM Author: Demanding Tan Abode *sigh*
This is hopeless. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:37 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum I wasn't going to comment on this, but since you're here, and because you seem pretty okay with the situation, let me throw in my 2 cents. You say:
"How did I get to be the fucking gunner anyway, huh? I don't even study all that much. I ask questions in class, that's how I got to be the gunner.
Dudes, I care. I'm paying 60K a year to go this fucking school, I'm not going to worry about being all cool and shit and pretending like I don't care about what we're studying. What kinda high school is this?"
I haven't been in class with you, so I'm not commenting on you personally. But IN GENERAL, the reason people dislike gunners is because we are all spending $60k a year to be here. So it is annoying when someone spends class-time asking a question that is not of general interest. If you're wasting class-time asking questions that only you care about the answers to, people are going to be irritated. Just save the questions for talking to a prof after class.
Again, I don't know you, so not saying you necessarily do this. But if people are calling you a gunner, this is probably why.
Also, I am guilty of this too. Which is why I've been called a gunner before. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:12 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life *nods*
Well, I do what I can to limit my questions to, as you say, those of "general interest." I also try to limit my participation to no more than one question during the class.
The class I was referring to, the one where I was my most "gunnerish," involved an active discussion in Crim where I interrupted another fellow as he went on about "justice." I was, uh, very animated. But in any case, I don't think it was one of those "convoluted hypotheticals being phrased in about ten times as many words as are necessary" questions. It was very much a "What do YOU think?" kind of discussion the professor had begun.
And I WOULD ask those questions after class, or in e-mail, and I sometimes do, except that it's next to impossible to talk to a prof after class if you're not close enough to beat the 3-5 OTHER gunners who're there first and... yeah, and professors here are only kind of so-so when it comes to responding to e-mails (I mean, some simply won't).
Oh, well. I think this is more about how I present myself online than it is how I present myself in-class. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:13 PM Author: comical point mad cow disease *ding*
See below |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:13 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum I've had the best luck just dropping by their offices. This has worked well for everyone except Strauss, who seems almost impossible to find. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439343) |
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Date: February 7th, 2007 12:01 AM Author: submissive library LOLOLOLOLO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7558097) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:44 PM Author: Claret Hateful Orchestra Pit This guy's gonna get a job!
"I don't even care that much. There are like a few things that trip my trigger. Most of the time I'm surfing just like every fucking one else. SURFING. Like, the internet. And I'm the gunner because I'm asking a few questions because I'm pissed the professor is using a biased textbook.
Fucking tools. Suck your own cocks." |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:50 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station second post (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438892) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:47 PM Author: fishy business firm What'd he say? It's gone now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438874) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:52 PM Author: carnelian headpube From above:
The last I'd "officially" heard, grades were not set to be out until the end of the month. However, rumors had been floating around that the grades would be posted yesterday. So the last couple of days, I've had periods of fitful sleep, filled with dreams obsessing on my grades and what would happen if I "failed"—got a "C"—in any of my classes. The grades are finally in, and I have mine.
Now, grades at the UofC Law School are kind of weird. We're graded on a scale of 160ish to 186, with grades less than 160 being "failing," and grades above 167 required for credit. A weighted GPA of 179 or better is required to graduate with Honors, 180.5 for High Honors, and 182 for Highest Honors. They translate the individual grades as follows: A = 180-186, B = 174-179, C = 168-173, D = 160-167. For classes with 50 or more students (which would be all of mine this year save for LRW), professors are required to distribute A's and C's more or less equally. Since my f-list seems fine, for the most part, speaking frankly about law-school grades, I'll present them below, but I'll cut them for those who read who'd rather not get involved in all that potential DRA-MAH (see, ECL, I'm always thinking about you...):
Elements = 179
Civ Pro = 180
So, in sum, I'm feeling mildly encouraged by my grades. I'm not the top of the class, but I'm not horribly middling, either. My better grade was in the class that mattered, since Elements and the Elements exam wasn't so much about learning the law an |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:48 PM Author: Internet-worthy lake liquid oxygen dopamine Also, this kid clearly doesn't think he's obnoxious, which, fine, that's his prerogative. But if you put this kind of stuff out there for anyone to read (and one would imagine this attitude spills over to his behavior in class and elsewhere), you don't have the right to get pissy when people call you out on your bullshit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438878) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:54 PM Author: iridescent gas station knife His name is Jacob Glazeski, in case anyone wants to smack him tomorrow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438911) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:57 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station This outing didn't take long. Nice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438924) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:28 PM Author: bright domesticated fat ankles Does it really count as an "outing" if the guy posted his own name and picture on his site? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439103) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:57 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum Posting this link to XO was in pretty poor taste. I thought the contents of the guy's blog were pretty over the top, but it's just not cool to throw that up here for public ridicule. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438925) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:58 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station It's on the internet already. HTFH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438930) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:07 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum There's a difference between it being on the internet and largely confined to the Chicago community vs. being thrown to jackals on XO who will mercilessly make fun of him in a public forum viewed by both the blogger and his peers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438987) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:29 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station Too bad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439108) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:31 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum That's why it is in "poor taste" rather than "illegal" or "immoral." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439122) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:36 PM Author: Internet-worthy lake liquid oxygen dopamine Yeah, somehow I had forgotten that xoxo was less about generic mockery and more about... well, worse than that. That's on me; it's my bad. Which is kind of meaningless now, but still. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439146) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:10 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station Surely you aren't serious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439328) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:11 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum I am being very serious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439332) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:21 PM Author: comical point mad cow disease I don't normally agree with a lot of the XOXO cyberstalking, but this one seems kosher. JG is willing to put his blog out there, which is known to portions of the Chicago law school community. XOXO intersects with a portion of that community.
The blog was not mentioned until he committed a specific act that is considered taboo among law students (discussion of superior grades). Without the comments regarding the diminished belief in the intellectual capacities of his fellow 1L's, I doubt the blog would have received much attention. He chose to put that out there. I consider that to be more in poor taste, than the XOXO link. The XOXO response seems to validate that. Why publicly question your classmates' intellect? |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:32 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station TITCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439413) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:35 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum I don't condone either act. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439429) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:59 PM Author: Claret Hateful Orchestra Pit "Don't post anything on the internet you wouldn't want an employer to read." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438938) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:09 PM Author: Topaz boistinker "don't post anything on the internet you wouldn't want xo to bump to the top of google search results for kirkland ellis" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438997) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:11 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum Yeah, that is a big difference too. His name is now linked in a google search to the blog. I know that as of yesterday evening, it wasn't. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439005) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 5:58 PM Author: Chest-beating razzle immigrant The guy just got IDIDN'TREALIZETHATMYCLASSMATESREADMYBLOGPW3D. Do none of you tell your non-law friends your grades? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7438934) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:34 PM Author: Lascivious stage Interestingly, I don't see any of the HYS crowd here making fun of this guy. Looks like its only the jealous TTTers.
EDIT: and, of course, the kiddies who haven't actually been able to get into a law school yet. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:36 PM Author: bright domesticated fat ankles And people who actually GO to Chicago, but whatever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439141) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:38 PM Author: Lascivious stage Like I said, the TTTers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439155) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:37 PM Author: Adventurous Property I agree with MTG... Total asshole thing to post on here. If you guys want to pull stuff like this, don't do it anonymously. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439150) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:37 PM Author: seedy exciting cruise ship ok, the guy doesn't seem that bad....just extremely dedicated. my question is, if I end up at UChi next year, what % of my class will be like this? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439149) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:40 PM Author: Adventurous Property Yeah, that's what I am wondering. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439164) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:40 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum At this extreme? 4-5%. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439165) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:42 PM Author: Lascivious stage The question you should be asking is, what % of your class will be like the assholes on this thread, who will be friendly to your face, but will talk shit when they can be anonymous.
Probably 30-40%. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:44 PM Author: seedy exciting cruise ship The thing is, I really don't mind shit like this at all..who cares what a bunch of dickheads think about you? Its all in good fun, who cares. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439189) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:43 PM Author: Demanding Tan Abode You're going to find a handful of "extremely dedicated" students at every law school. They're colloquially known as "gunners." UC may have a few more gunners per capita than its peers, but I imagine it's negligible. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439179) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:46 PM Author: seedy exciting cruise ship when I think of a gunner I think of someone who is so pathologically deluded that they can't be saved, but this guy would appear to have a chance at redemption now that he understands the way he comes off and modifies his behavior (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439200) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:19 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life In my school's defense--most of them really ARE cooler than I am. They're really a laid-back crew, which was why I like it here. They have a good sense of humor that comes out in class, which is really great.
I thought *I* was one of the "laid-back" ones, but apparently I'm only contributing to their stress. I guess I'll have to chew on that. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:49 PM Author: seedy exciting cruise ship I have a q: is it possible to quash gunners with sarcastic cutdowns or is their armor impervious to such weapons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439218) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:51 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum Generally, the latter. We had some professors make fun of them last year in class, everyone laughed, and they still seemed unphased. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439224) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:54 PM Author: seedy exciting cruise ship fantastic. and Chicago is reputed to have more than their fair share of said individuals. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439238) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:28 PM Author: fantasy-prone azure school cafeteria persian "We had some professors make fun of them last year in class"
I hope to become friends with these types of profs. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 11:30 PM Author: vermilion legend bbw do you have any professors that just didn't tolerate them? (in other words wouldn't call on them during class time or stopped them when they were going on some tangent?) That seemed to work pretty well in one of my classes...but it's really only something a professor can do obviously and it was only done once because it was getting bad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440873) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:18 AM Author: Zippy institution people who are hurt imo, it never reached that kind of critical mass where the prof would need to totally shut someone down (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7441177) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 3:22 AM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum Yeah, that happened. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7441929) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:56 PM Author: exhilarant public bath puppy Fwiw, I'm a Chicago 1L and I'm over it. I have a class with the guy and he asks generally interesting questions. No attempts to have one-on-one inane conversations with the profs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439250) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 6:59 PM Author: orchid casino private investor BUT DOES HE USE A ROLLYBAG??? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439262) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:03 PM Author: exhilarant public bath puppy Hmmmm . . . you know, I've never noticed. My only thought on the rollybag: keep them in the fucking aisle in room III!! There's no room!! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439286) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:22 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life NOPE.
I use a backpack I've had since my undergrad. It's about 10 years old now. |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 1:05 PM Author: multi-colored area idea he suggested a backpack with WHEELS? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7443151) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:00 PM Author: iridescent gas station knife Hi Jacob! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439267) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:02 PM Author: exhilarant public bath puppy Search my moniker. I've been posting on here a long time. Just been away for awhile. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439279) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:05 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum I can vouch for this. I met indiana back when she was a pre-law student. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439292) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:09 PM Author: orchid casino private investor As did I. She is very much a SHE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439326) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:10 PM Author: exhilarant public bath puppy ty? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439329) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 8:07 PM Author: Henna insane death wish boltzmann Translation = nice tits? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439564) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:02 PM Author: trip well-lubricated den dog poop I have classes with this guy and he is generally nice and he means well. Despite what he says, though, he is among the top 5 gunners in the 1L class. He always raises his hand in property, sometimes his comments are insightful and sometimes he launches off on tangents that are, at best, marginally relevant to the rest of the class. He is obviously very smart, everyone knows that. I think the major issue is that he comes across as insanely arrogant. He has this "im smarter than you are" attitude that gets really bothersome. He is rarely at wine mess or bar review, so it's hard for him to find people to defend his actions. I honestly feel for this kid, he is excited about the material and there's nothing wrong with it. It's just that when you *yell* something out in class, as he did in my crim section, you don't realize that there are 100 other students there who now have to have their leaning sabotaged at your whim. Does he really think that nobody else had an opinion on the matter? Is his opinion so fantastically important that it is worth not only stating to the class, but yelling out and interrupting the teacher/another student? This is what I don't get.... and JG, 1Ls have known about your blog for awhile and when you post things about people not considering "justice" as much as you have, you dont exactly make many friends. There is room for disagreement, the most well-respected minds of our time have come to different conclusions about certain issues (including the one that you yelled in class). Just becuase someone thinks differently than you do doesn't mean they have considered something less carefully.
That being said, you are clearly one of the smarter people in the class. But it never hurts to avoid burning bridges. And burn bridges you have |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:08 PM Author: exhilarant public bath puppy I agree completely with one of the core sentiments here: most everyone has an opinion on the reading. For various reasons, most of us choose not to express that opinion. I actually like when people volunteer, as it takes the heat off the rest of the class for awhile. I blame the profs more than anything. When they keep engaging a student, it's tough for the student to let go. I wish profs would be a little more direct about moving on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439322) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:09 PM Author: Disgusting Travel Guidebook Elastic Band I also have classes with him and I think HisBlog captured it perfectly. The posting will only solidified the general opinion about his arrogance. Wow, just wow. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439324) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:30 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life *nods*
I enjoy Property. I like how Helmholz directs the class--that's why I try to get involved. I know, though, that sometimes I'm just off. I'm actually aware of that, after the fact. I'm sorry I waste your time; I'll take more care in the future.
As for that whole yelling thing... I made a mistake. I know it, it was disrespectful of me, and it won't happen again. I felt like it was a discussion, a back-and-forth, like Helmholz sometimes sets up, you know? But not so much in Crim, I guess.
I also didn't realize that people knew about my LJ. I knew one person did, but I didn't think EVERYONE did. lol... I guess now they do. Now that I do know, there are plainly some things that I've said that I won't say, which are inappropriate, but I'm not going to remove those things that I have said, because I think that would be kind of dishonest. I'll let my smudges stand where they are.
Anyway. Meta-point taken. I need to loosen up. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:39 PM Author: trip well-lubricated den dog poop Dont stop participating 100%, just make sure that you have a really relevant comment or question before you do so. I think that most of the 1Ls have sympathy for this situation, and I honestly think more people will feel bad for what happened to you than revel in the shitstorm. So just relax, dont take things so seriously, and come out more often! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439443) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:43 PM Author: Bearded field No...he should stop participating. Only gunner-douches speak when they aren't called on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439469) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:45 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum This attitude pisses me off too. There is a small subset of people who think ANY participation is bad and that is just as ignorant. We had a guy last year who was really sharp, asked great on point questions pretty frequently, and people ragged on him all the time for being a gunner.
People need to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant class participation, both gunners and those who would criticize them. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:53 PM Author: Bearded field No, class participation is fucking annoying. I have not yet once heard any of my classmates say anything particularly useful or insightful. I'm not paying tuition to have my time wasted by douchebags, I'm paying tuition to hear as much commie bullshit from my prof as possible and parrot it back to him in a 3 hour period in exchange for a $145K job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439515) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 11:29 PM Author: twisted generalized bond TITCR. What it boils down to, except in very rare cases, is that the only reason to say something in class when you haven't been called on is to a.)get bonus points with the prof, or b.)attempt to look smart in front of your classmates. The only time anybody ever learns anything from a classmate raising his hand in class is if the guy is asking a question about an upcoming exam. People who are normally socialized know what you're trying to do, Gunner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440865) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:37 PM Author: Lascivious stage wine mess?
sounds retarded. i wouldn't go to wine mess either. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:55 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life Wine Mess is actually pretty cool. You can drink (not just wine) while talking to people, instead of standing around wondering if your ears will survive the crappy music being blared at jet-engine decibel levels right over your head. Professors sometimes show up, but usually just to find someone new to talk to themselves to.
I've been a few times. I have no idea why I don't go more often. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 8:50 PM Author: Lascivious stage I think you're trying too hard to portray yourself as a nice guy on this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439786) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:05 PM Author: Bearded field Yeah, it's a cleverly calculated attempt to appear "normal" executed by an abnormal douchebag. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439896) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:12 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life This is obviously the only possible explanation.
"He's such a douchebag, he's trying to portray himself as not a douchebag! What a douchebag!"
This was a slight misunderstanding, magnified by the discerning scrutiny of the XOXO hordes, enabled by the questionable actions of at least some of my peers. In my journal, it's just another expression of my insecurities. Here, it becomes a morality play.
Separate the fact from the fiction, and chill out. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:14 PM Author: vibrant church nowag "This was a slight misunderstanding, magnified by the discerning scrutiny of the XOXO hordes, enabled by the questionable actions of at least some of my peers"
No, it's obvious you're a douchebag. No need to deny it, just embrace it and move on. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:28 PM Author: Bearded field I can spot pathetic attempts like this one because I used to do it myself. Sorry, but you're not going to fool an expert like me with something this transparent. You have to hone your craft...mine is so refined that you wouldn't realize I'm a douchebag unless I told you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440067) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 7:10 AM Author: Concupiscible ratface Dude, you are such a douchebag. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7442096) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:06 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life Maybe I'm just not the easy-to-hate stereotype you'd like to believe I am? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439900) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:30 PM Author: Bearded field And maybe you're an obnoxious faggot gunner douche who is hated and reviled by your classmates(who of course don't think about *justice* enough)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440077) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 10:01 PM Author: Hilarious stimulating hall love of her life So would you say that your trolling ability surpasses, or is roughly equivalent to, your ability to hide the fact that you're a douchebag? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440272) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 10:58 PM Author: Bearded field I am a fairly accomplished troll, providing much free publicity for important topics like boxing, Tracy Mcgrady, and Killer Instinct Ultra Combos. You however, are a hopeless social reject who trolls for his *own* grades and LSAT score. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440689) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 11:30 PM Author: Lascivious stage You had me until Tracy McGrady. I'd rather troll for my own grades than Tracy McGrady. Hell, I'd rather troll for [insert the shittiest thing you can think of here] than for Tracy McGrady. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440875) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 11:31 PM Author: twisted generalized bond Did you attend a private, Christian school or were home-schooled, by chance? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440881) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:42 PM Author: Lascivious stage Look. I'm not a hater. Read the thread.
But it's obvious that you're trying much too hard here. Just be yourself. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:22 PM Author: Sable provocative parlor ITT Chicago attempts to live up to the level of XOXO Douchebaggery set by CLS. Good work guys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439385) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:38 PM Author: balding orange athletic conference skinny woman The criticism seems more douchey than the dude's actions to me. If someone has problems with this guy, a public forum like this is probably not the best place to air them. I guess Chicago students don't have a keen sense of justice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439439) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:44 PM Author: Adventurous Property anyone else think that this makes "The Law School" look pretty bad?
Or maybe things can get kind of petty when the place is so small? |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:51 PM Author: sickened curious pit filthpig MindTheGap is weeping right now. His hardwork, builing up over so many years of careful, reasoned Chicago trolling destroyed in a few hours.
Good work, xoxo. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 7:59 PM Author: Bearded field Look at his attempted damage control, it's great.
LIFEOFTHEMINDPWN3D! |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:08 PM Author: exhilarant public bath puppy http://dear-the-chicago-1ls-plz-stop-bitching-about-grades.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565207&mc=67&forum_id=2#7436876 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439917) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:12 PM Author: sickened curious pit filthpig I must have been inadvertantly channeling you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439952) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:14 PM Author: exhilarant public bath puppy I feel worse for MTG than I do for U of C. We probably deserve the lambasting. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439966) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 4:30 AM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum The 1L class has indeed been bloodied today. First by the 2L/3Ls, then by each other.
Whatever, you had it coming. For the first quarter you guys were far too likable and awesome. I mean, showing up to bar reviews and wine mess? Having fun? It was only a matter of time before you got burned.
It's okay though. Pretty much everyone at the law school last year hated my class. By comparison, you all still look great. |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:08 AM Author: Swollen Coffee Pot Juggernaut Nah, this just brings things back to the pre-CLS Fed Courts equilibrium. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7441127) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:56 AM Author: Slap-happy motley national preventive strike Holy shit, this was funny (if only because there's probably some truth to this). A true 180.
That said, MTG is one of the best posters on the board. |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 3:48 AM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum I honestly don't mind. I feel really bad for the blog guy, but I'm okay with having an honest portrayal of Chicago. I don't want to WIN people to Chicago I just want a) people to consider it if they weren't and b) to give an accurate impression of my law school experience.
I always worry (and people who've met me IRL after talking to me about the board can second this) that I'll tell people about how much I love Chicago, and then they'll get here and be disappointed. So I'm fine with having an honest portrayal, even if it isn't great PR.
On the other hand, I don't think this is that bad. Yeah, one guy had a douchey blog, but both he and everyone else seem to be handling it in an okay fashion. I know the OP personally (after the fact, didn't know the moniker before), and s/he absolutely did not mean any harm by posting the link. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 8:02 PM Author: chartreuse background story WOW just wow. between this bullshit and Columbia's class numbering fiasco, I'm cant imagine what kind of people go to top law schools. Thankfully, I wiil probably not have to put up with you insufferable douches. Can I expect a class this devoid of social abilities? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439542) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 8:04 PM Author: sickened curious pit filthpig Just go to UVA, it's a haven for cool, non-douchebags.
Or join me at Vandy. |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 8:09 PM Author: Henna insane death wish boltzmann <Just go to UVA, it's a haven for cool, non-douchebags.>
AHAHAHAHA |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 8:14 PM Author: sickened curious pit filthpig teh sarcasm doesn't transmit well over the internets (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439595) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:36 AM Author: rusted university pisswyrm This is why people will write NCC in a few years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7441255) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 8:16 PM Author: Zippy institution people who are hurt i have been telling you people and telling you people. but no one wanted to listen. well, now i guess it's tied up in a neat little shit-package and you can't ignore the truth anymore.
The Law School is hell. Law school is hell. Your peers are some of the worst people you will ever meet. You will not recognize yourself or be able to determine your place in the hell. Good luck all. ;) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:14 PM Author: balding orange athletic conference skinny woman lol so true. i wouldn't say they're "bad" people. but they're just too serious. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7439969) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:35 PM Author: fantasy-prone azure school cafeteria persian I've managed to stay emotionally detached from my peers since high school, all throughout college, and during a master's program. I don't think I'll have any difficulty ignoring the masses in law school. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440110) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:39 PM Author: Bearded field How did it happen that making the tired claim that this ghetto shithole is UNDERrated became the signature conversation piece for people who desperately want to be thought smart; really, really smart. smart people love "rigor" and Chicago is full of it; it must be, what with its hair-splitting number grades, punishingly low enforced mean, and oppressive course load. Chicago boosterism usually comes in the form of a comparison with the appallingly UNrigorous Stanford or Yale -- gradeless, abundantly pass-fail, unserious; students who do nothing and know nothing. Chicago: graded, competitive, serious... That it's really just a ruptured ego rehab clinic for Harvard rejects is a fact not emphasized. I have seen a homely Chicago girl, deep into her second year, still spontaneously weeping upon Proustian recollections of the stiff NO Harvard sent her, in brisk three-week turnaround time from the point her doomed application was deemed complete. Happy December, chickiepoo. Then the Yale axe fell, as it does. Welcome to the New Year, dipshit. January passed; February crawled by with those joyless acceptances that only accentuated the horror of Plan B: Georgetown, which is a "Law Center," a failed euphemism if ever there was one. Next: woeful Cornell. Oh, what a very bad school. And -- what do we have here?!? -- a Boston University full-ride. Ummmm, no. On second thought in stead of BU I'd prefer the f free roasted dogshit mignon with a pus reduction sauce and a heaping blob of earwax garnish. Thank you no. I am woe. Add to that the fact that the imbecile whoalways posts about how Sean Hannity is a "serious thinker" just got into Harvard. Time for you to start some damage-control posting here, on the PR board, pretending to seriously consider this BU affront. You wave the flag of thrift and test out a quaintly anachronistic abhorrence of debt. Substantively, you add in some tommyrot about how BU's "really strong in ...'international law,' whatever the fuck that is. BU? Yeah, right. But you need something that gives the illusion that Georgetown, if it comes to that, isn't the three years incarcerated in a smegma chamber that it is. So good, so fine you'll drop the cash dollars despite that lovely gift from BU. You're forming a cover story; something to puff the very real and very nauseating prospect of joining 600 other defeated mediocrities at ... fuck, no ... Georgetown. And you thought going to college at Penn was bad. . Still, there are two more to hear from. Two more law schools ...There's that late April Stanford rejection (inconsiderate bastards) which at least affords you ample time to manufacture the next layer in the cover story: e.g., a strict policy against California, a suburban aversion, a preference for bigness, all of which eliminate Stanford from the sweepstakes. Be sure, too, to ridicule their tepid 25-75 LSAT %ile, too. Kill it dead, if you must. Maybe you thrust out of your frozen horror by sending off one of those strategic "withdrawal" letters, the way all those clowns do when Harvard puts them on hold ... ".you cant't fire me ... i quit! " Adios, Stanford. Suck my cunt, you no-SCOTUS-clerking/dike-dean-TTT. ... die, die, you gravy-sucking pig. .... and now, then, there is just one. Chicago. The Law School. Chicago does do that pathetic yield-maximizing stall, so February passes, March crawls. They haven't the nuts to try the ricockulous move Stanford does. So they write. Ever rigorous, The Law School requests the pleasure of your company. Not so fast . No decision has been made. They want to inspect you in person. The "evaluative interview. Looking for people skills. And evident thirst for knowledge. The life of the law is the law itself. It seems you've fucked up; quite possible3 when the went "behind the numbers." Maybe those two essay paragraphs about why the 171, exactly where you topped out in Kaplan, is a truer measure than the 164. maybe it was two paragraphs too many. You weren't an auto-admit. So off to the "evaluative interview," and you give them not much to evaluate. You stay on message, though: owing to its RIGOR, Chicage is now, and ever was, your FIRST CHOICE. Tell your audience what it wants to hear. Then they decide, engaging the only evaluation that matters in this gig. Looks like they can break even with your sorry ass. Median-wise, your 171 nullifies the 159 URM from Howard they took yesterday. They'll swallow your 3.46; sometimes that's the price of a yield-lock, and you're that. (No one's swallowing the Howard guy, if you catch my racy double entendre.) These admissions guys talk, as you suspected, and you wisely decide against telling them it had come down to Chicago or Harvard for you; first versus second choice; no choice at all. Never get caught lying. Bad idea, even worse than telling that stupid girl from Emory you were "a Kennedy." These things get found out. Like they say, no sense lying about your cock size. Turns out you didn't need to fake a bidding war. The usual stampede of all Chicago's best admitees are going to Y and H and S without so much as the courtesy of telling C to go pound sand. Why tell them what they already know? They need to fill place #143 of their famously teeny-weenie class. The assumed occupant got unheld at Harvard this morning; never so relieved, he had the audacity to ask Chicago for his deposit back. They don't need these headaches. You're in. They write, very pleased to offer admission; then a recital of just how "keen" the competition was for the few precious "seats" in the class of 2006; and, finally, a paragraph celebrating the legal profession with a toploftiness and richly felt purpose so precisely at variance with reality that you are unsettled by the suspicion that you might be the target of a satire so subtly corrosive that you will never connect it with the despair that will progress, exponentially; beginning as a persistent annoyance progressing into a pervasive physical and mental crapulence and ending in the crippling burden as lumber and writhe and tumble toward the epiphany. What epiphany is that? That this "career" of yours --BIGLAW! -- has somewhat less to recommend it than residence in the "shoe" at Pelican Bay. For now, though, the seed of tragic hopelessness finds expression in the "Law Discussion Area." You post -- IN AT CHICAGO -- and, without overtly lying, you manufacture the entirely erroneous impression that you "chose" Chicago, being also the originator of the CHICAGO v. HARVARD and YALE v. CHICAGO threads, under various of your insipid monikers, all selected from either Pulp Fiction or Friends. Be careful not to ass fuck your credibility, though. The purported Yale turn-down is a tough one to pull off. The "New Haven's-an-armpit" trope just doesn't pass the ha-ha test. It's too puny a reason to toss away a lifetime of being supposed a genius ... fuck it: always good to give your fabrications a little populist tint, not to mention a dollop of truth. Join the commiseration thread of Yale rejects; pretend to be sad for that Nuisance turd; be one of the masses for once. Getting rejected isn't the same thing as not getting in, You merely did not get in. You claim to have been wait-listed; and, with admirable maturity, you hold out no hope. Remember, too, this lie must be built on several fronts. Lard up the Harvard thread with grave concern about big classes, low morale, faculty acrimony, and speculation about a precipitous US News ranking drop. Throughout April, you go political, fulminating about Tribe and Dershowitz and how Duncan Kennedy drives a far-too-expensive car. to be a genuine socialist. Chicago's "conservative climate" is just a better fit for you; marginal cost curves figure in your every analytical moment; you read Posner opinions on the crapper; Coase is as important as Socrates. There is that little stinging glitch, though. Somehow Stanford neglected to process that request to quash your application, which is not favorably acted upon and this is memoriaized in a letter that suggests the Stanford Admissions Office ignores their LaserWriter Pro's TONER LOW warning. On May 7th they regret to inform and wish you well at any of the scores of other law schools that, they assure you "offer excellent programs of legal instruction." (Which, you have no doubt, they do. What they don't offer, is really the only important thing Stanford does offer: the opportunity to sit for three years with your thumb up your ass, comatose, and still get the job you'll have to bust nuts to get coming from whichever craphole you end up at.) It's sealed. An ugly, styleless maroon CHICAGO LAW, Champion sweatshirt has arrived, per your online order. You wear it, eliciting congratulations from the babe you want to rail. She's so happy for you, and you're so wrapped up in the fantasy of creaming on her tits you nearly miss perky aside that her boyfriend remains in the throes of elation from his admission to Yale, back in January. Throughout the summer, you bookmark links that embody the wisdom US News lacks. Your are heading off, soon, to your own first choice, which also places first in a ranking produced by the rigorous methodology conceived by a statistician from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. That Harvard tied for #14 undermines your confidence in the ranking diminishes the likelihood it will supplant US News' preeminence. So you go. Your Hyde Park apartment is actually rather nice. Your housemate went to Harvard College. One night, instead of jacking off before sleep, you register as an active component of your self-conception the notion that, transitively, your housemate's undergraduate credential nullifies the Harvard rejection that left you lusterless and unlaid at your senior prom, -- and has persisted as a gnawing ache, going on five years. You are now on equal footing with a Harvard graduate. Should your law school prowess exceed his -- say a 75 in Torts to his 74 -- you will once and for all flick away the scab of that Harvard wound. First cut is the deepest. As it turns out, your housemate is an engaging, witty fellow. He's porking the big bosomed lady with the Dutch accent. Wow! He offers to you, his new chum, the story of his own execution -- by lethal injection -- as expected, he painlessly relates, by the HLS admission staff. You pretend to explore what might have caused things to go awry, flatulating the usual fatuousness about Harvard being excessively "numbers driven," the "arbitrariness" of it all, dangling the threat of going on at some length, when he offers up the only information you genuinely care to know about him: : 178/3.34 ..Of course some one will inevitably have the 6th percentile college GPA in every HLS class; probably not a white guy from Greenwich, though. Friendship is built through reciprocity. So you tell your own story. You attempt to weave compassion into the telling of your story, being careful not to appear boastful about not just possessing, but discarding something he does not possess. HLS. Dreamy, So, your story: the grueling back-and-forth ... one day it's Chicago, the next Harvard; the hardest decision you've ever made; that feeling of immense responsibility to yourself; discovering and summoning the emotional maturity to pierce the specious veil that is prestige. With the bearing of a battle weary soldier you tell what it is to do something rarely done -- circumnavigate the Earth, dunk a basketball on a regulation hoop, turn down Harvard Law School . You picked Chicago. You chose, you adorable little existentialist. You are not exposed, chiefly because this a shared lie, Community glue. (Postscript: Throughout the 1Lyear you and your housemate discover much commonality, He, too, prefers the Stones to the Beatles. You both smoke pot. neither is circumcised. You've each fucked 5 girls; gotten head from several others. Each of you applies to transfer. He gets into HLS. He turns down Harvard Law School. Of course no two people are exactly alike. Your desire to transfer wanes around the time Stanford and Yale's decisions on your transfer applications reach you by mail. You begin the CHIGAGO 1L TAKING QUESTIONS thread. One of your alter ego monikers asks simply: how do you like Chicago. You love it. You wouldn't go anywhere else and, you note, there were other places you could have gone. Same for your housemate. He transfers to Yale.) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440127) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 9:51 PM Author: Aphrodisiac brass factory reset button station You used the word "trope" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440212) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 11:34 PM Author: Lascivious stage and "chum" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440899) |
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Date: January 17th, 2007 11:42 PM Author: Cerise corner *deletes forgotten douchebag blog from 1L* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7440951) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:36 AM Author: Flesh metal senate wagecucks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7441257) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 9:33 AM Author: pungent locale i suspect the op knew what he was doing would create some controversy, that mtg is very pissed at the blogger, indiana has a nice body but average face, chance and jimpop don't really give a shit about the whole ordeal, and the best part of the thread was re-reading renada's poignant essay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7442190) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:37 PM Author: Nighttime Flickering Forum >>i suspect the op knew what he was doing would create some controversy<<
Talked to OP last night. OP is a person who is aware of XO but doesn't really spend a lot of time here. Figured the guy would get some ribbing and people would laugh, but wasn't really aware of the potentially soul-destroying nature of the board.
>>that mtg is very pissed at the blogger<<
Someone sent me a link to his journal a few days before it got posted here. I thought it was douchey and passed it around to some of my friends, but I'm not pissed at the guy. Right now, I feel bad for him.
>>chance and jimpop don't really give a shit about the whole ordeal<<
TITCR.
>>and the best part of the thread was re-reading renada's poignant essay.<<
Isn't that the best part of any Chicago thread? |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:47 PM Author: slate cocky newt Have you read his latest entry? I still don't think he gets it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7443058) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 1:16 PM Author: pungent locale you forgot to comment on indiana. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7443188) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 2:23 PM Author: orchid casino private investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7443571) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 2:39 PM Author: pungent locale why the conspiracy to not reply to my assumption regarding indiana? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#7443665) |
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Date: January 18th, 2007 12:50 PM Author: Henna insane death wish boltzmann A few years ago, while browsing around the library downtown, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john a big beautiful all-american football hero type, about twenty-five, came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was "straight" and married -- and in any case I was sure I wouldn't have a chance with him.
As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy young ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured.
The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as a man's wrist.
I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a heavy rimmer and had lapped up more than one little clump of shit, but that had been just an inevitable part of eating ass and not an end in itself. Of course I'd had jerk-off fantasies of devouring great loads of it (what rimmer hasn't), but I had never done it. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of the world's handsomest young stud.
Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract? I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I've found since then that shit nearly almost does.
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big brown cock, beating my meat like a madman. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was the donor of this feast wasn't there to wash it down with his piss.
I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit.
Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my hankerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom. I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of that lovely young guy dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful shiteater. |
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Date: May 7th, 2008 11:15 PM Author: french green degenerate circlehead bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=565350&forum_id=2#9751916) |
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Date: May 7th, 2008 11:38 PM Author: electric glassy theater stage I like how his most recent post characterizes the response he gets from the professor as somehow a result of his engaging the material on a deeper level that others can't quite comprehend. Other people might call nonsensical ramblings like he describes as "dumb" or "stupid," but clearly it's the inability of the rest of academia to grasp his brilliant insights that leads to getting the death look from his Professor (and from the looks of this thread, his classmates as well). Thank god he's realized he needs to dumb everything down for the rest of us, otherwise his genius could have been lost forever.
Anyone at Chicago know if this kid does well in school to back up the attitude? Is he on Law Review? |
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Date: May 8th, 2008 12:50 AM Author: Contagious nibblets wrinkle no, and no
but he is still posting to the lj
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