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[lawschoolruinedme]

Working As A Lawyer - Masterpost

*Note* Many of these, unlike my other masterposts, are joke-posts because as lawyers we need to laugh a little more, and they still get the point across

Start Out At Your Office With The Right Mindset 

Working in an Office 101

The First Year Of Practice Is Difficult

Like, Legitimately Difficult

Basically This Is How I Felt All The Time

So Its Our Job To Save the 0Ls From Law School

Imposter Syndrome Is Common In Young Lawyers

Own Your Success

Because Winning Will Feel Strange

Especially When You Take Any Case You Can Get Your Hands On

3LOL Trained You For This

Put Everything in Writing

Bill For Everything

Everyone Is Bluffing

Everyone Feels Like They’re Faking It

And Everyone Copies Each Other’s Work

Clients Will Do Stupid Shit

People Will Argue Stupid Shit

And Everyone Complains About the Cost of Litigation

But Seriously Clients Are The Worst

Especially This Fucking Client

And Managing Client Expectations Can Be Difficult

Especially When They Don’t Listen To You

And When They Ask Stupid Questions Please Don’t Kill Them

Don’t Forget there’s a Special Place in Hell For the DIY Client

Even The Ones Who Come Crawling Back

There’s Also A Special Circle Of Hell Where Court Clerks Live

Attending Court By Yourself Is Scary

So Suit Up

Stand When A Judge Enters

Remember Your Manners

And Learn When Not To Talk

Because You Don’t Know Everything

And The Work Is Often Overwhelming

Its Hard To End The Day 

Getting To Friday Is Sometimes A Struggle

!High! Importance Emails Are Bullshit

Please Stop Telling Female Lawyers They Need To Be “Pretty”

And Please Stop Asking If We’re The Secretary

What To Do When Male Lawyers Accuse You Of Being “Emotional”

Being the “Lawyer Friend” Is Hell

Because People Do Not Understand Our Schedules

Or Our Brains

Or Our Lack of Social Skills

Or Even Really What We Do

Everyone Fucks Up Sometimes

And Sometimes More Than Once

And Everyone Needs a Person

Lawyering and Babies

Lawyering and ADD / ADHD (Note: See the Responses for Smarter People Than Me)

Lawyers Get Anxiety Too

And Brains Sometimes No Brain No More

Being The Office Millennial Means You Are The Tech Guru

Networking 101

Never Send A First Draft

Never Ever Ever

Is Being a Real Lawyer Like It Is on TV? (Spoiler: No)

Seriously Who Writes These TV Shows 

But Don’t Worry - Being A Lawyer Can Make You Just As Petty

And Also Make You Argue About Pedantic Shit (Because That’s Your Job!)

Not Every File Is A Winner

Not Every Settlement Offer Is Legitimate

Who Needs Lexis When You Have Google

I’m Not Joking Guys Lawyers Use Google Too

But Don’t Let Your Clients Google Unsupervised

Punk Isn’t Dead We Just Got Law Degrees

Quit Your Job In 5 Words

Don’t Lawyers Graduate With Job Offers Worth Lots of Money (Spoiler: Give Me A Minute, I Am Dying Of Laughter)

Seriously, Still Laughing

[achillesinhighheels]

Billboards on the Sunset Strip, 1970s.

[local-nativee]

Reviving this bc what tf do you mean Liam’s dead

[24kblk]

taral hicks in a bronx tale, 1993

[neuroces]

ok firstly I’m traumatized, not crazy, so jot that down

[lsacusa]

Study Tips To Ace LSAT

Are you preparing for Law School Admission Test (LSAT)? You might to quite keen to ace the test and get admission to the best law college possible. According to your goal score, you must have already put in hours and hours of practice and study to achieve your desired goal. But rigorous study won’t be enough to crack the LSAT.

The following tips might prove helpful during your LSAT prep.

1) Give Multiple Practice Tests.

After preparing and studying for months, you also need to get used to the exam format; hence, trying practice tests weeks before the exam day can be useful. Timing yourself during these practice tests can help you improve your speed and performance during the actual test.

2) Time Management

The majority of the students find the logic section of the LSAT challenging to solve. The logic section can also time consuming. Hence, managing the test time by dividing the time among the questions by categorizing as into easy and difficult ones.

3) Know Yourself

Once you have identified the easy and the difficult questions from LSAT, you can start solving them based on your strong and weak points, and this, in turn, helps in in managing the time. After you complete the easy questions, you can have extra time for the difficult ones.

4) The Test Environment

Create the actual test environment while practicing the tests. This will help you get the test conditions’ hang and lower your nervousness and stress for the test.

To sign off

Wish you all the best in your LSAT preparations and do keep these tips in mind.

To know more about Master of Legal Studies (MLS) please visit our website: lsac.org

[crimstudies]

here’s a list of my favourite playlists that i listen to when studying. only one playlist has lyrics so if you find that distracting you can skip it!

1 am study session - lofi hip hop/chill beats (1 hour)

a rainy town - animal crossing ost + thunderstorm ambiance (1 hour)

breath of the wild relaxing music with rain (1 hour)

lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to (live radio)

relaxing life is strange music (1 hour) *has lyrics

relaxing music from uncharted series (45 mins)

skyrim music & ambiance - night (1 hour)

skyrim music & ambiance - rainy day (10 hours)

studio ghibli summer night piano collection with nature sounds (7 hours)

the last of us - relaxing music compilation (30 mins)

the legend of zelda - calming & relaxing music compilation (1 hour)

the witcher 3 - peaceful music & nature ambiance (1 hour)

the witcher 3 toussaint - relaxing music for sleep and study (1 hour)

uncharted - ambient music & ambience (1 hour)

all playlists

[crimstudies]

here’s a list of my favourite playlists that i listen to when studying. only one playlist has lyrics so if you find that distracting you can skip it!

1 am study session - lofi hip hop/chill beats (1 hour)

a rainy town - animal crossing ost + thunderstorm ambiance (1 hour)

breath of the wild relaxing music with rain (1 hour)

lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to (live radio)

relaxing life is strange music (1 hour) *has lyrics

relaxing music from uncharted series (45 mins)

skyrim music & ambiance - night (1 hour)

skyrim music & ambiance - rainy day (10 hours)

studio ghibli summer night piano collection with nature sounds (7 hours)

the last of us - relaxing music compilation (30 mins)

the legend of zelda - calming & relaxing music compilation (1 hour)

the witcher 3 - peaceful music & nature ambiance (1 hour)

the witcher 3 toussaint - relaxing music for sleep and study (1 hour)

uncharted - ambient music & ambience (1 hour)

all playlists

[beetlebongos]

breakfast

[elliexer-moved]

lunch

[fever-dream-deactivated20180711]

dinner

[nathankujo-deactivated20220101]

dessert

[back-that-sass-up]

cool what the FUCKING HECK does this mean tho

[bookwormingparty]

[buildarocketboys]

2020 reading ask meme

1. Favourite book of 2020?

2. Least favourite book of 2020?

3. Favourite fiction book?

4. Favourite non-fiction book?

5. Which books did you start and not finish?

6. Which books (if any) did you reread?

7. Busiest reading period of the year for you?

8. How did the p*ndemic affect your reading habits?

9. How many books did you read in 2020?

10. Which books that you read for the first time this year will you come back to again?

11. A book that was completely out of your reading comfort zone?

12. Author you read most of this year?

13. Pick one of the books you read this year. What do you associate with it/with that time in your life?

14. One book you'd definitely recommend to others?

15. What are your reading/book goals/wishlists for next year ?

[totalariana]

I’m such a fan of low soft lighting like turn off that room light and turn on a lamp bitch

[exxxmilitary]

[thatgizzard]

what do yoU MEAN???

[smooththegoofyshark]

[nyanbinyuri]

the robots FUCK get with the program 

[thevolutionofnerdy]

Okay,  so hear me out here. Look at Heihei here: 

Moana looks about…three? maybe four in this picture? Since most of the movie takes place when Moana is 16 years old, that would make Heihei at least 12 years old. 

Now, while it is true that some rooster’s can live to be between 10 and 15 years old, the average lifespan is between 5 and 8 years. And not only that, Heihei looks no older during the main part of the movie. 

He looks pretty good for a twelve year old rooster, don’t you think? Here’s my theory: Heihei is a demigod. I don’t know details with this but I feel it makes sense and fits in with the whole demigod plot of this movie. Wouldn’t it make sense that there would be one on the island with Moana? 

Do I sound crazy or does this kinda make sense? It’s okay if I sound crazy, i’m just really obsessed with Heihei.

[mona-mk-monakaliza]

Tangled Theory

The crown in the disney movie tangled, represents Rapunzel’s virginity.

Ok hear me out…

She’s naive and scared and sheltered. She gets the crown when she mets Flynn, the first man she’s come to see in real life for the first time. After finding out about it, she hides it, keeps it secret. Even uses it as leverage to get Flynn to agree to the deal.

After her mother Gothel finds that Rapunzel has left with a man, she claims it instead, using it as bargaining to get the two goons to follow her plan. This ties in her character that she owns all of Rapunzel, even her rights as a woman and choices.

Then in the confrontation between Rapunzel and her mother in the forest, gothel says while referring to the crown “this is why he’s here don’t let him deceive you… Trust me my dear, *snap* that’s how fast he’ll leave you”. Can you guess what else could be referring to?

Rapunzel says to Flynn on the boat during the Lantern scene “I was scared but now I’m ready to give this to you” hmmm what else could that be referring to?..

And lastly when gothel takes her back to the tower she takes away her flowers takes down her hair no longer with the crown because it left with Flynn, yet she says “there it never happened.” As if she’s trying to claim the old (or should I say young) Rapunzel back, before she discovered the crown.

But despite all that Flynn still runs to be with her, not giving a second thought to the crown again. He doesn’t care about the crown anymore it’s irrelevant it’s all about her now he loves her.

The crown could have been swapped out with Rapunzel’s virginity and it still would have fit!

[heretherebefandom]

Theory Time: Moana Died in the Crash

After rewatching Moana a couple of times (maybe twelve or something idk whatever don’t judge me) my best friend (@elisekova) and I stumbled onto a pretty dark but undeniably plausible plot theory.

The ocean crashes her boat in the storm (and onto Maui’s island) and intentionally neglects to save her. Why? Because it needed her to die.

Outside of the anthropomorphic nature of the ocean (which can be explained away by the ancient power of an ageless entity able to transcend planes) and the “Bang the drum” scene with granny (which is more of a hallucination that could have been sent from the spirit world) there is no proof of magic or monster prior to meeting Maui. Possible reason? Because all the monsters and magic exist on a limenal plane. A sort of purgatory, if you will. Like a purgatory where someone such as Maui may have been stuck for 1000 years. And how does one get to purgatory, you ask?

Moana’s death explains quite a bit, not just about her ability to see and touch the spirit of her grandma (“If you are ready to go home, I will be with you.”) as well as travel to lands no mortal should be able to travel to (aka that crazy portal jump to Lalotai), but it explains away her ability to withstand things that should otherwise be damaging or fatal to a human. Again, Lalotai, Tomatoa, the Kakamora fight, and especially the definitely would-be-fatal blast in their first fight against Takka. Among others.

Even Maui proclaims that he would, “never make this journey with a mere mortal,” but then turns around and makes it anyway. Perhaps he realizes she’s no longer quite mortal, so to speak.

Basically, in order to do all these things, survive all these creatures from a noticeably “other” world or plane, Moana had to exist on that plane as well. The only way to achieve that being the undisclosed sacrifice of her life. A sacrifice repaid in full by Tefiti once Moana returns her heart.

Maui has already told us that Tefiti’s heart carries the ability to “create life itself.” So what better way to thank Moana for giving up her life, then to give it back. Along with a fancy ride to take back to her plane and her family.

It can even be argued that the heart is a beacon for life, not just glowing brighter and beating stronger as it gets closer to Tefiti, but keeping Moana in the In-Between. When Moana gives the heart back to the ocean, her vision of the spirits (granny as well as all the past voyagers) becomes much stronger. The moment it’s back in her hand, everything seems normal again. Like Moana is closer to life than she is to crossing over.

Perhaps Moana wasn’t even aware of her death, “waking up” exactly where she needed to be, in the presence of the Demi-god she needed to lead. Or perhaps she was aware, taking every impossible obstacle in stride because of it. Either way, she follows her path and returns the heart, her only purpose in the aftermath of her death. Possibly even adding to her inability to turn around and go home when given the chance.

All this also gives much stronger meaning to the line in the final song: “I have crossed the horizon to find you.” It also puts weight in Maui’s tearful goodbye, knowing that in many ways, he can not follow her back. As a hawk guarding her sky, but no more. And once she returns, the symbol of Tefiti is no longer present on any of the boats, and with the symbol, that final link to the spirit world is gone.

Long story short, Moana may have gone a liiiiiiittle ways past the reef.

[tryingpolyglot]

625 words to know in Español

I saw this idea in a post by asian-lang-studyblr, and thought I would make the list in spanish, but please do keep in mind I am mexican, so there are going to be some words that might not mean the same in Spain, in Mexico, in Colombia, etc, etc. I hope it helps and I did put a lot of effort into it so if you use it please reblog, and if you have any questions or notice a mistake tell me! warning: it’s a very long list

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