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Posted: Thursday September 8th, 2005 17:33 |
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Ive just started my Legal Practice Course in College of Law. I am about ot complete my first week. Its been a very eye opening experience so far. One thing ive noticed which I don't like is the fact that so many people can't seem to socialise without going to the pub, for a beert and a pint. I look around and I see bare people doing this even though by the looks on their faces they don't really wanna do it BUT DO IT ANYWAY JUST TO FIT IN.
Is the pub really the social centre of law students because that is so not me, and their is no way I am going to sell myself like that just to fit inj in a place which serve drinks I don't like, in a place that stinks of cigarettes
HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD TROUBLE MINGLING WITH PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCES INA SIMILAR ENVIRONMENT
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Posted: Friday September 9th, 2005 11:41 |
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Judge J wrote: Ive just started my Legal Practice Course in College of Law. I am about ot complete my first week. Its been a very eye opening experience so far. One thing ive noticed which I don't like is the fact that so many people can't seem to socialise without going to the pub, for a beert and a pint. I look around and I see bare people doing this even though by the looks on their faces they don't really wanna do it BUT DO IT ANYWAY JUST TO FIT IN.
Is the pub really the social centre of law students because that is so not me, and their is no way I am going to sell myself like that just to fit inj in a place which serve drinks I don't like, in a place that stinks of cigarettes
HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD TROUBLE MINGLING WITH PEOPLE, BECAUSE OF SOCIAL DIFFERENCES INA SIMILAR ENVIRONMENT
yep find it impossible to mingle with most law students. I don't even try to fit in because i don't think it will help in me finding a job as my application and interview will be done by me and only me. hanging around such people makes me feel fake and hypocritical i will say hello but thats as far as it goes i look for friends who have the same taste and interests as me ,i will not compromise my personality just to fit into a group
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Posted: Sunday September 11th, 2005 19:42 |
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I've just completed the LPC at the College of Law and encountered similar experiences so you're not alone. In your workshop group you'll soon find that little cliques will form according to who goes down to the College Arms on a Friday after classes to get drunk with the tutors and those like myself who after a long week just wanted to get home or needed to head to the library to study some more. At first my classmates would ask if I was coming to the pub and I'd make polite excuses (helped by the fact that I had a 2hr commute home) then after a while they soon got the hint. I didn't care if they thought I was anti-social because I hate pubs and there was no way I was going to stink out my good clothes and freshly done hair to go and skin teet to get in with the "in crowd". Trust me after a while you will find like minded people who are there to work hard and those are the ones that you need to stick with. For some reason there is a high concentration of fake, two-faced people in that institution so be on your guard. I couldn't wait for the complulsories term to end so that I wouln't have to spend four days a week with some of those people.
The LPC is an extremely intensive course and I'm sure that like me you have spent a lot of time and money to get there so my advice to you is to work your ass off particularly in the first term. Trust me you'll have the last laugh as most of the people that lived in the pub only scraped a pass or had to retake whilst I recieved a commendation and made Mummy proud by having my name in the Times.
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Posted: Wednesday September 14th, 2005 08:13 |
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To Equity:
When you were at the College of Law, was their an Afro- Caribbean Society?
Also I have seen that many of the blacks who do Law here are in workshop groups where they are the only minority in their class.
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Posted: Wednesday September 14th, 2005 08:41 |
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Unfortunately Judge J there was no ACS so this is maybe something that you could start up. A good place to meet up with friends from your workshop groups or even old friends from uni is the Cybercafe. Basically you can socialise, use the PCs, grab some lunch and maybe do a bit of study all in the same place which beats the pub anyday.
In terms of black people in workshop groups it's all about the luck of the draw. Some people ended up the only black member of their group but in others like mine there could be three. But, trust me just because you're all black and trying to achieve the same goal is no guarantee that you will get on. In my group there was myself and another black girl who got on really well but there was a black guy who despite being in the same class as us four days a week managed to ignore us for the whole year so he could cosy up to his white buddies. I rememeber one day he got to class late so he "had" to sit opposite me and he still barely said a word to me for the whole one and a half hours. But remember that in the electives term you will be mixing with a whole new group of people who share your practice interests. For me that was the most enjoyable part of the year because overall I studied with some good people and I enjoyed the work so much more.
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Posted: Thursday September 15th, 2005 20:35 |
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| Do you have a training contarct yet Equity? what electives did you study? Do you have any revision tips for me when it comes to the open book exam, though it aint till next year I want to get ready early?
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