Fearfully Optimistic

Recent Posts from Fearfully Optimistic

• A Traditional Problem for Non-Traditional Students

  Being in law school with a family can be hard. The demands on students are bad enough without having to keep a spouse happy, keep a child feeling loved, and keeping a home rather than…

• How Much Law School Work Can You Put in the Cloud?

  This post was written a while ago in anticipation of NaNoWriMo. A post on Lawyerist about how to minimize the risk of data loss when working with cloud computing got me thinking about how much…

• Beating Burnout

  When November comes around, it means the second act of the three act play of a law school semester is about to start. November might start the final third of the law school semester, but…

• As Long As You Get There Eventually

  If you have not felt the sheer terror in one of your classes that you’ve been sitting there for a couple months and have no idea what’s going on, then it’s just a matter of…

• Should You Give Up on Social Networking?

  This post was written a while ago in anticipation of NaNoWriMo. Over at The Corner In The Middle, the author (a Midwestern 2L) has deleted his Twitter account and has cut back on his Facebook…

• Time to Go Old Yeller on SNESL

  It isn’t as big of news as Belmont University trying to launch a brand new law school. But it is significant that Southern New England School of Law is trying to offer itself up to…

• On Becoming a Recovering Law Student

  (In)Sanity Souffle: As miserable as I can get about law school, the truth is that what I do or don’t do is the result of my own choices. I choose to cook, and the result…

• Accreditation Not Causing Tuition Increases

  If you get at least one professor who is a student/fan of law and economics during your legal education, you’ll hear about how regulation has costs. Accreditation is one type of regulation, and with it…

• Fewer Students Is Good, Fewer Schools Is Better

  Supply and demand is a simple enough concept that even lawyers and law professors—sometimes not well-versed in economics—can figure it out. If people want less of something, then the amount that should be supplied and…

• Why They Make You Prepay in Law School

  My philosophy on class skipping was drilled into me during orientation before my freshman year of college. Sitting in the auditorium, a professor addressed the subject to a few hundred incoming students who were already…