Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
On Monday, you voted on the finalists, and now it’s time to announce our caption contest winner…
Continue reading “Caption Contest Winner: Choose Your Own Bar Exam Adventure”
Caption Contests
Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
Let’s have a look at what our readers came up with, and then vote on the finalists…
Continue reading “Caption Contest Finalists: Choose Your Own Bar Exam Adventure”
Bar exam prep season is officially upon us. Until the end of July, your Facebook news feed will be plagued by updates from recent law grads who feel the need to languish in their own self-imposed agony. Your Twitter feed will run rampant with hashtags about the #barexam and impending doom (e.g., #baddecision, #killmenow, #torture, #iwelcomedeath, #stuDYING). To put it plainly, these people are in the depths of despair.
Nothing could possibly make their lives worse at this point, but they made their choice long ago to suffer this fate. They could have quit before reaching this point, but this was the path they chose.
Why not rub their misery in their faces?
Continue reading “Caption Contest: Choose Your Own Bar Exam Adventure”
Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
On Wednesday, you voted on the finalists, and now it’s time to announce our caption contest winner….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Winner: Stretching Does a Student Body Good”
Earlier this week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
Let’s have a look at what our readers came up with, and then vote on the finalists….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Finalists: Stretching Does a Student Body Good”
Whether they like it or not, law students need to be very flexible; after all, they’re preparing themselves to some day bend over backwards for Biglaw partners. By way of example, just take a look at law school finals. This time of year tends to put students into some pretty awkward positions. From going shirtless in the library to sleeping with a classmate — for an outline, obviously! — law students are willing to do just about anything to make the grade.
But just how far can a law student bend before she breaks?
Continue reading “Caption Contest: Stretching Does a Student Body Good”
Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo, taken at a law school:
On Monday, you voted on the finalists, and now it’s time to announce our caption contest winner….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Winner: Following Instructions For Dummies”
Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo, taken at a law school:
Let’s have a look at what our readers came up with, and then vote on the finalists….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Finalists: Following Instructions For Dummies”
Law students like to be given detailed instructions for the simplest of tasks, but in most cases, they’re unable to follow them. Funny how that works. It may be annoying now, but just think of all of the glorious benchslaps we’ll see later in their careers thanks to their inability to follow instructions — you know, the thing that lawyers are supposed to be able to do.
At the end of the day, we shouldn’t be complaining about this. After all, we get to see the ridiculous instructions law schools are forced to dole out on a daily basis….
Continue reading “Caption Contest: Following Instructions For Dummies”
Last week, we asked readers to submit possible captions for this photo:
You then voted on the finalists. Now it’s time to announce the winner of our caption contest….
Continue reading “Caption Contest Winner: Baby, Baby, Baby, Law”
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