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and so she works at night, for her dream to become a reality

[kateknowsdramas]

[sadcypher]

sorry for always disappearing, im just not sure if i exist anymore and exams arent helping

[lawyerd]

Countdown to the Massachusetts Bar Exam: 91 days. 

Today’s agenda: 

Torts Practice Questions 

Torts Practice Essay 

Contracts Lecture start 

Total time: 4.5 hours. 

For the non-law students who follow me, most students who take the bar exam choose to take a bar prep course. I signed up for a course run through a company called Barbri and I also have access to additional material from a Kaplan-run supplemental program called PMBR that my school is paying for (they don’t usually, but they feel badly for the 2020 grads lol).

Barbri designs weekly syllabi for me based on the work I’ve completed so far and eventually will begin to probe me with certain lessons based specifically on my strengths and weaknesses. Barbri tells me how many hours I should study a day in order to finish the program before the exam - in a normal year, students start the program anywhere from 10-6 weeks before the exam, so they have to put in 8 hour days as many as 6-7 days a week. Right now my program is telling me I only have to do 3.8 hours a day for the next 90 days.

I know that there is so much wisdom out there about burning out because there is so much to study and that starting too hard and too soon can be detrimental, but I am trying to plod along, just a little each day. Enough to keep the daily required hour lower than normal, but not so much that I feel exhausted and unwilling to engage. Part of the reason I’m trying for this slow, marathon pace, is that I’m about to start a part-time retail job. I really didn’t want to, but the delays associated with the exam have me in panic mode about paying my rent for the months to come. I could have made it through July on my savings easily, but I’m less sure about making it through October on the same amount. So I figure if I plod along slowly, I can work a few days a week and still meet my weekly study goals. We’ll see how this goes lol. Studying for this exam is the most important thing for me, so I’m more than happy to call it quits on the job after a few paychecks if it’s not working out. 

[siriusordogstar]

30.06.2020 || my boyfriend always gifts me with books written by women and I think it’s the loveliest gesture ever. trying to keep my productivity on track whilst repeating to myself that is okay to give my mind a rest too.

[ex-injuria-jus-non-oritur]

Missing days like this by the riverside

IG: flatneedledistillery

[welcometoyouredoom]

Free Black History Library

[awholenutha]

Please keep boosting this, free knowledge is so important people.

[teacomets]

did some of my children’s literature reading (which was a bunch of grimms fairytales!!!), now I have to challenge myself to battle my philosophy assignment, which has been kicking my poor brain a lot today but if I keep my chin up and acknowledge that nothing happens without hard work, I should be alright! It’s also mid-autumn festival 中秋節!!! happy mid-autumn, dear friends 🌙 ♡

[thefemmenist]

reading by the seaside 

[0pluto-134340]

physically i'm here. mentally i'm book 2 zuko standing on a cliff and melodramatically yelling at god to shoot lightning at him

[evergreenlark]

it's summer already! I've realized that having the windows open for some fresh air really keeps me feeling more awake, productive, and less anxious - more of this nice breezy weather please! also my spider plant has grown exponentially over the past few weeks and it now has grown a new stem with flowers!!

[luminous-studiess]

ive trying to consciously make studying enjoyable, but also rigorous and productive lately. started by downloading forest and tidying up my desk (a very good mix of art and law obvs). today is day one. hope everyone is staying safe.

[werelivingarts-deactivated20230]

As protests against injustice in legal system, discrimination, police brutality spread through the US, it is necessary to educate yourself about these issues. 

Here are just a few book recommendations (there are so much more out there), include both non-fiction and fiction about racism and challenges that black people face throughout their lifetimes. 

Thank you so much for more recs. Below are some more amazing book recommendations from the comments:

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates

Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated by Richard Rothstein

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Policing the Black Man by Angela Davis

At The Hands of Persons Unknown by Philip Dray

Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

What Set Me Free by Bryan Banks 

Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary by Juan Williams 

Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas 

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

The short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace By Jeff Hobbs

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin 

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

[twinpeaking]

i keep seeing posts of free pdfs of texts by BIPOC authors about racism and race, and i just want to stress that as white people, if we can afford to buy the text, we absolutely should, because just downloading free copies is another form of exploitation of BIPOC and their work. buy the books if you have the money. actually support the person who wrote them.

[thinkjar]

June 18, 2020 | 04:15 PM

Disputing Chinese Views on Power

[sissikuk]

Do not use change.org petitions

Hey, just a reminder: Most governments cannot legally respond to change.org petitions. If you want to do activism to get a specific government to do or not do something, do not use a change.org petition. It will not work. They do not have to respond to those because they can’t check that the people signing it really are their constituents (the only people whose opinions they care about). Instead, use the official petition service of that government, because then it will have to be debated/acted on if it gets a certain number of signatures. 

For the UK: https://petition.parliament.uk/

For Australia: https://www.aph.gov.au/petition_list

For the US: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/

For the EU parliament: https://petiport.secure.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/home

There are literally hundreds of different petition systems - at least one for every government. You can also just literally google your country of residence + petition.

These petitions legally have to be acted on if they reach a certain number of signatures. Change.org petitions do not, because there’s no way to verify where the signatories come from or how seriously members of parliament should take these signatures. Change.org (in addition to being an “unofficial” petition channel) is also a for-profit company that only uses your money to boost petitions within its own website. 

“(Change) is a multimillion dollar for-profit private company, not a nonprofit public charity as many falsely assume. The company began as a nonprofit that connected charities to donors, but has transitioned into a for-profit company that makes money by selling advertised petitions on its website, Change.org.” -Activist Facts 

It is additionally misleading - the number of signatures you actually need to have a petition debated/acted on/reviewed by the government will vary from place to place and the population size of the country you’re petitioning. Change.org does not have that information. Have you ever noticed how the number of signatures keeps getting extended? That’s because none of the goals actually do anything actionable. They are not legally binding.

Anyone can sign a change.org petition. Usually with petitions you need  to at least be a resident of the country you’re petitioning. The reason for that is that the democratically-elected representatives should act on their constituents’ desires. It is very easy to not act on a change.org petition from their perspective because they have no way of verifying if you’re actually a constituent and could vote them out. Having a petition that anyone can sign is a very easy way for the entire petition to be discredited. 

Please, I am begging you. I am thrilled by your enthusiasm for activism, but I am exhausted from having to jump onto every post that tries to petition a government through this fraudulent website. This matters because if faced with the option of signing a real petition or a change.org one, the change.org one is going to be more popular because fewer people know how this works, but we really need to boost through channels that work right now.

Examples for what not to do under the cut.

Keep reading

[neoyorzapoteca]

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.’”

— Toni Morrison (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[rawjoy]

u know what makes me cry..... that one van gogh quote about life changing for the better..... “many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. and it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘what do i care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ yes, evil often seems to surpass good. but then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. one morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. and so i must still have hope.” yeah..... Crying....