I call bullshit

I was in a law school library today and ran across a guy I sort of know from my BarBri class last summer. He’s not a particularly close acquaintance but we usually kick the shit around and discuss whatever it is we’ve been working on. He’s super competitive and never fails to mention how many hours a day he studies, how he’s averaging 90% on his MBE’s, and all sorts of other shit (he had also previously given me a Sakai style iron clad ‘community property will be on exam’ guarantee that he would pass the bar last summer, so much for that one). Today, he told me that he’s been averaging well over 12 study-hours a day, and after pretending to be impressed, I went back to memorizing my community property outline for the last time.

I only stuck around the law library for about 5 hours, but I have to say that between talking on his cell phone, checking email, and talking to everyone else about how much work he’s been doing, I’d guess that he might have managed to put together a grand total of 2 hours on anything remotely related to actual study. Obviously he considers checking his dating profile on match.com in his daily 12 hour study-a-thons (I wasn’t snooping, but his laptop was directly in my line of site). The one thing I’ve learned from law school, and the bar for that matter, is that pretty much anyone who feels the need to brag about how much work they do, or how much time they put in is utterly full of shit.

I realize that the law and gamesmanship are basically synonymous with each other, nevertheless, it is kind of satisfying to watch someone who is so obviously full of shit fail to back up anything he says. Anyway, enough rambling, time to get back to the never ending joy that is civ pro.