snickersnicker

Nice chill summer look, Constant Struggle. What I wore today:

Prada | Barney's | Truth | Nudie | Cons

snickersnicker

im 6ft, 130lbs (im fuckin skinny as hell)

sized down 3 to a 27

Daaamn; you're tiny. I was thinking about getting a 27 and I'm 5'11"/160. I'll probably go with 28s. Thanks a bunch.

Go vegan.

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Those are beyond great. Height/weight/purchased size? That's how I'd like mine to fit.

I never paid much attention to Blonde Redhead. Most of the people I knew who were into them had little to nothing in common with me, musical interest-wise. Does it sound like Unwound, though? If so, I'll look into it.

fake can be just as good? yes? if not, do it. vern tears it up.

Hmm? Not sure I understand what you're saying. Fake Train, maybe? I've got that LP too and it's great, but those two are tops. The kind of records I put on at one in the afternoon when I get out of class and keep flipping them over and over for six hours until dinner.

Ah, Unwound. One of my favourite bands ever. Especially 'New Plastic Ideas' and 'Repetition.' Those records got a lot of play last semester. :thumbsup:

Cursed - II

Yeah it is. I would've loved to see them live if they didn't break up. Any news from the members? Did they form new bands or something?

I think most of them are still involved in music some way or another. I don't live in NYC, where they were from, but most of those dudes had been involved in the hardcore/punk scene for a while, so I'm sure they're still doing something or other. They were definitely killer live.

Is that Gospel's 'The Moon is a Dead World'? My friend Nikki used to play sax with those guys. I like them live; not so much recorded.

Maaaybe my favourite record ever.

Night and Fog by Alain Resnais (1955)

Pretty well-known, but necessary viewing. An official documentary sanctioned by the French government to document the Nazi occupation of France, Night and Fog ended up becoming perhaps the single most powerful documentary ever created, showcasing not only the physical history but also the changing culture of rememberance of this dark period. Resnais' use of film excerpts of the Nazi occupation of towns as well as the rounding up of those persecuted during the Holocaust, combined with his powerful use of editing technique and stark self-shot footage of the concentration camps as they stood in 1955, provide the basis for a haunting and convention-bending look at the physical and social tranquility which seemed to come over the areas and cultures formerly terrorized by the Nazi reign.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z7wm7NSgxwc

(Part 1 is just the intro text, all in French.)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6854113117967578704

Google Video link (though not the Criterion translation)

Hey Zach, mind posting the actual measurement of the waist? Trying to decide between sizing down to a 27 or 28; wear as small as a 29 in Nudies, usually 30s in Levi's/et al. Thanks.

Bump. Also, got a 171 last night!

i am a member of TLS.com and attending Georgetown.

holla.

How do you like it there (or are you not attending until the fall)? I've visited DC before, and though I usually don't like the big city vibe, something about it clicked and I loved it. I only spent like a few hours in the Georgetown area, and didn't get to see the law school at all (since it's in a different part of town). I like that GT has a wide range of subjects it ranks highly in, instead of having one or two main focuses and being mediocre in the rest. The "Curriculum B" also seems like a really good idea. Also, if you don't mind sharing, numbers/URM status/soft factors/etc?

My girlfriend's uncle worked in the DoJ for nearly a decade, and then eight years as a prosecutor for Wayne County. He said it was tough, but incomparable to the work he did in a MidLaw firm and then now in his own practice. What are you doing, and in what office? Either way, I'm pretty passionate about what I want to do. The only other thing I could imagine doing would be going into academia, but I wouldn't really feel like I was contributing much doing that.

May've already been asked in this thread, but when does anyone know when the Levi's Friends and Family sale starts?

If you have a high GPA, Duke is somewhere I would check out. If your GPA isn't so great, Georgetown seems to like the LSAT a lot more, so concentrate on getting a good score...i visited both campuses and they were great.

I am planning on practicing in Canada, so I decided to accept in Toronto and save $40,000 and maybe go to NYU for my last couple years.

Right now I've got a 4.00 (the highest you can get at a public university in the states), and I'll probably finish between a 3.90 and 4.00. I don't think I could attend Duke...it's a little too far south for me, as is UVa, probably. I love the cold and am pretty much only comfortable in sixty degree or below weather. I've actually considered attending LS at UToronto since I love that city and have a pretty huge interest in hockey (hate the Leafs, though). One of my professors attended McGill and highly recommends it, even over UT. Since I want to do US government work, though, it's really not worth it to attend anywhere outside the US.

Just to add...I wouldn't worry all that much about a T 14 if you are solely interested in working for the government. T14 is only really important if you want to work at big firms

I've spoken to a lot of people about it, and it seems like the sort of jobs I'd like to apply for (stuff with the US Department of Near Eastern Affairs; Democracy and Global Affairs; Office of the Legal Advisor; Department of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour; etc) require either graduation from a top LS like Columbia/NYU/Yale/Georgetown, or distinguishing work within the field of international law. Wherever I attend, I will definitely try to write for their international law journal, but it definitely can't hurt to go to a top school. If I got offered a big scholarship at a place like George Washington U, which certainly isn't a slouch in th field, I miiight take it.

I've heard that from most people doing BigLaw work. From those I've talked to doing government stuff, it's not quite as bad. It's pretty much the only thing I want to do.

Boris is hardly obscure anymore. Following the release of Pink, a bunch of sixteen year old hipster types started hyping them up. Sure, to the general populous they might be obscure, but you can buy their albums at most regular music stores (that is, not the type that specialise in obscure music or genres outside of rap/pop/alternative/classical). There are hundreds of better bands right now anyway, but that style as a whole is a crapshoot as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, starting my morning off right:

The law degree in Australia is totally different from elsewhere in the world (well, at least the US, Canada and the UK). Here it's a three (or four) year graduate programme after you receive your bachelor (or whatever else you receive above that).

You ever go to xoxohth.com? Check that site out. There are a few racist trolls that fuck it up, but the conversation and info is cool when you do get it.

Even though I have yet to take the test myself, I'd say figure out what schools you want to go after you receive your LSAT score. Also, some say if you are scoring in the high 160's, expect a few points lower on the actual test. So perhaps you might want to test in the 170's more consistently till you do take the actual test. But I'm with you man. T14 or BUST!!!

I currently post at LawSchoolDiscussion.org and people are pretty helpful there. I'll check that site out though, probably closer to my actual test date.

Regarding the LSAT score, I'm pretty sure it will go up. I've got a year before my exam date, and I'm pretty ardent when it comes to studying, so I'm not too worried. There was a period earlier this summer where I took an LSAT every other day, and did a few LG sections on the days I didn't take one...I've actually taken three full timed LSATs in one day once. I take this shit way too seriously considering it's so far away, but I don't think that's a bad thing. My target score is a 173, but anything above 167 will be acceptable. Like I said, if I don't score high enough to get into the schools I want, or end up having a bad application cycle despite a good score, I'll definitely be retaking.

I usually only miss one or two reading comprehension questions, two or three logical reasoning questions per section, and five or six logic game questions. However, since I picked up the Powerscore Logic Games Bible, I've been doing SO much better on LG. I've actually gone through a couple timed LG sections from early-90s exams (when LG was next-level hard) and gotten every single question correct. I still need to get my timing down, since on actual full timed exams (that is, all four scored sections) I usually end up having to guess on three or four. Still, that book is extremely helpful. I've noticed my LR scores dropping lately, so I might pick up the LR Bible they make as well.

I'm a pretty good test taker (have never gotten lower than an A- on a college exam thus far) and don't really get stressed about big exams, so I don't think I'll do too much worse on the actual thing than I do on practice tests. As long as I get into Georgetown, probably the easiest of the T14 to get into aside from Cornell, I'll be happy. Although I know LSAT score is what matters the most, I have a feeling my GPA and level of volunteer work/student activity/etc will push me over the line at some schools. One of my professors is working on getting a paper of mine published in an international relations journal, too, which would be a big boost. If only I were a minority...

Assuming you do decent, where would you most like to attend?

Maybe kind of a long shot, but since it seems like many people on here are college-age...

I've got a little bit left of undergrad, but have been preparing for the LSAT for a while now. Got a 170 on a recent exam after toiling in the 164 - 167 range for a month or two, which I'm pretty excited about. Assuming I do relatively well on my actual test (if I don't I'll take a year off and retake it), I'm hoping to go to a top fourteen. I don't want to live in NYC or anywhere in California and probably couldn't get into Yale or Harvard, so it pretty much limits me to Georgetown, UChicago and Cornell...maybe UVA or UPenn. I'll be visiting the campuses of most of the northeastern/Atlantic T14s sometime in the next year or so, so maybe I'll change my mind about the NY schools. Wherever I go, I'm hoping to focus on international law and end up with a job in the Department of State, though doing work for a nonprofit or something along those lines would be pretty rewarding too.

So, who attended/currently attends/will attend law school? Where did you go, what did you specialise in, and how did you like it?

* peter jackson

Fuck all these dudes with their boring last names!