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I have been accepted to law school. Law school is that place you go when you have an undergraduate education sufficiently expensive and esoteric to render you a liability to the private sector. It’s not about helping people, whatever they say. It’s about paying down student loans.
I visited my law school and got to see [...]
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To expound on my lazy professor theory, I’m going to take just a little time to pick on classes that require/maintain a roster of attendance.
I think everyone should go to class. After all, that’s why we’re here. I can read books on my own; I pay so much to hear the professor lecture and to [...]
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My next assignment in argumentation will be a peer-reviewed paper. I hate doing peer-reviewed papers.
First of all, I don’t pay fifty grand a year to listen to what other students think of my writing. Even if I were average, I’d be better than half of those people. But even the best writer in the group [...]
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I have a theory about college: way too many people go.
This isn’t my theory; it’s actually Charles Murray’s theory. But I’m going to write about it anyhow, because while we’re worrying about government screwing up incentives in the financial sector and health care, we should remember how well they’ve done with education.
I recently applied for [...]
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I apologize for being out of the loop; I’ve been doing LSAT practice tests.
I’ve heard people, otherwise rational people, complain that the LSAT measures only one’s ability to take tests, and not one’s probability of success at law school.
I heard the same argument about the ACT when I applied to college four years ago, and [...]
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Tonight I’m feeling frisky, and I’m going to say something inflammatory and dreadfully unpopular.
We need fewer need-based scholarships. In fact, we need to do away with need-based aid. All of it.
Here’s why:
In life, you’re paid for two things: intellect and effort. Effort will get you to one hundred thousand dollars. Brains make you a millionaire.
Most [...]
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I hate it when teachers complain about not getting paid enough. Do you hear the guy at the 7-11 complain about his pay? How about the folks at Hardee’s? Hy-Vee?
Nope. And all these people get paid a lot less than teachers for working many, many more hours.
Teachers love to ask for more pay. It’s for [...]
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I once took a class taught by a philosopher. It was entitled “Early Western History,” which was a damn dirty bit of untruth in advertising. Early Western History is hardly the exclusive story of philosophers.
But my main gripe with the philosopher is that he tore down everything I find holy and good in the world. [...]
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I often argue that college simply isn’t for everyone. I’ll enumerate my reasons later, but before I do I’d like to give a pointed vignette about innumeracy.
I went into a gas station last night. I have a diet dew addiction, and diet dew is served on tap at this particular gas station. I usually prefer [...]
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And oh by the way, on the youtube for this movie, they quote Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg.
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