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What if for my midlife crisis I just went back to school and decided to pursue my love of folklore and the supernatural to absolute cringe levels?
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What if for my midlife crisis I just went back to school and decided to pursue my love of folklore and the supernatural to absolute cringe levels?
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JBM - What I learned in College Today -Â Illumination comes from reading, I firmly believe that. The more you read and discuss what you read the more informed we become as humans. Today's question - Why is this law also applied to every single legislative person in our government? They should be subject to each other as well as we are subject to them. - Let me know in the comments below.
At Michael's looking to decorate grad caps.
She's going with a geography theme...
I'm thinking "22 year plan motherfuckers!"
NonTrads for the win!
Back to School Essentials
A good pair of cheap headphones/ear buds
Music is life! I have both bluetooth cans for when I can’t stand being tethered, and small earbuds when I want to be more discrete
So far my favorite earbuds are the Panasonic RPHJE120K for 7 bucks. They’re cheap, they sound great, and if I lose them or anything happens to them, I don’t give a shit, it’s 7 bucks!
A tablet or e-reader
You’re going to have to read a lot of PDFs, a LOT of PDFs. Profs LOVE PDFs and Word Docs. I have an Asus T100 and a Kindle e-ink reader and they’re great for this
PDF Annotator
for the above PDF’s. Programs like this are extremely helpful for marking up your pdfs, and filling out forms.
Post it Flag+ highlighters!
Dude, they make such a difference to be able to highlight key things and then color code it with flags.Â
A small Power strip/surge protector!
Every school is different but mine sucks for access to power. This way I never have to fight to get a plug, but can just plug my strip in and 5 of us can share the only plug! Great for studying in libraries, or if you have back to back 5 hr classes :|
Inflatable lumbar and butt support cushionÂ
if you’re pulling an all nighter in the library, or have a 5 hour project to do, these are great to keep in your bag.Â
An inflatable pillow is also good if you need a napÂ
a large 72oz mug!
The bubba keg is great for filling with ice water so you don’t have to keep getting up and down while studying and leaving your stuff unattended.Â
An extra battery for your phone
your phone is your life.. nuff said
ANKI flash card system,Â
the best online/digital flash card system out there!!!
MS OneNote
Keep all of your notes and everything together, create custom flags to make a study guide each week, and use it for research papers to keep everything documented and together.Â
The screen cap feature is extremely useful as well to add images from google searches, pdfs, and online textbooks.
A facebook group for each class
Google docs are the in thing, but fuck that. They just become convoluted messes of crap
Facebook groups allow everyone to post multiple files, talk about them, ask for help, share things they find, and it makes it much easier to set up study times with the events feature.
OneCalendar
I have way too many calendars! I have my school calendar, my personal calendar, google calendars and outlook calendars, my this calendar, and my that calendar. I keep OneCalendar up on my laptop and tablets because it combines them all in great way and still allows me to see what I need to see and turn off what I don’t.
Trail mix
There’s nothing worse than getting hungry in class or when studying!
And one Nonessential but a huge help
A laptop/tablet/hybrid with an active digitizer screen!
Being able to write on the screen like you would in a notebook is huge. I can highlight, scribble, take notes, draw diagrams, and work in arcgis and stella so much easier with a pen and a screen. While a lot of people are going for the surface pro’s, I prefer the HP Spectre x360 because of it’s larger screen and great price. 13 inches realy is that perfect sweet spot!
Day 4 - So you want to go to law school
Shhh, shhh - we’re pretending it’s still Day 4. My post isn’t late. Shhhhh... Not another LSAT memory, but another one from right before law school. The law school I go to started it’s life as a night school for working professionals.  Over time, that focus has unfortunately been lost and we’ve been absorbed by a bigger university system who is um, re-evaluating their relationship with nontraditional students.  There, that was diplomatic.  When I was accepted, they had a special panel offered to the night students.  The topic was how your family was going to survive law school and it led off with some scary statistics about law school divorces.  Day students were invited too, but it was primarily night students in attendance since the majority of us were going to be working full time during school and dealing with a little more life baggage than the traditional law student.  The panel consisted of current & alumni night students with their spouses.  I attended with my partner. Â
Towards the end, the panel was asked “What’s your one piece of advice to these new law students and their families?”  And I will never, never forget the best piece of advice that sustained me through all the madness of this crazy journey: “Realize that going to law school, becoming a lawyer, that’s one of the most selfish things you can do.”
Of course, this was met with stunned silence punctuated by a couple nervous laughs. Â So he continued and this is how I remember what he said (it was a few years ago, so there may be some embellishments that my memory has superimposed on his explanation):
“No, hear me out. You don’t need to go to law school; no one needs to be a lawyer.  You’ve already got your first degree.  Recognize that you are making this decision to put your family’s lives on hold for three to four years.  This is for your dream.  And yes, your family is probably very supportive of this or you wouldn’t be here.  But there are going to be nights when it seems impossible - when you’ve been at work all day, your boss has been riding your ass, your professor made you feel absolutely stupid in front of everyone, you feel like you haven’t seen your kids in two months because they’re in bed by the time you get home, and your spouse is tired and upset and covered in mac and cheese because there was a foodfight while his back was turned and one of the kids mouthed off that he wished mom was here because her mac and cheese is so much better.  You’ll get through the fights and you’ll get through to the end with everyone cheering for you at graduation if you remember this: you are all working together to get you across the finish line.”
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The diploma is mostly a signal of faithfulness, docility, and memory."
Kevin Carey quoting Robert Maynard Hutchins
There is sort of a consensus definition of what a "good learning experience" is, and then there's what colleges actually provide, and those are not the same things."
Kevin Carey, Higher Ed Happy Hour podcast
What is...really depressing about colleges, they're really rigorous from a process standpoint and not at all rigorous from an educational standpoint. There are all kinds of ways that you can mess it up and not graduate from college if you don't do it right--if you don't come in the right way and follow the rules the right way and do this and do that, and particularly if you don't have experience with that--you can just get spit out and that happens all the time."
Kevin Carey, Higher Ed Happy Hour podcast