CDOfuscious Say
The last e-mail from CDO is pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back. Over the past year at Boalt I really could have devoted a daily blog entry to the mess that is the CDO. But to the best of my knowledge, I've only had one (though I can't seem to find it).
The e-mail is a long addendum to yet an earlier e-mail. It begins:
"In response to several student inquiries, we thought the following clarifications were in order with respect to entering your class and scheduling conflicts."
[Caution, rant ahead] Look, the basic function of that office is to pass along information. And they are completely and utterly incapable of doing so. Beginning with the atrocious layout of the website that's only gotten worse with the summer revamp, all the way to the "binders" that contain all you need to know to become a partner in under 6 years and/or sue 200000 slum lords, the flow of information is mediocre at best. If the first e-mail, actually, if at some very earlier point such as the summer, we had been given CLEAR, step-by-step guidance, then you wouldn't have several hundred anxious 2Ls clamoring at your door.
I took care of whatever I needed to take care of just fine. I don't need anyone to hold my hand, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist (read: BTLJ member) to see how things can very easily be improved. As much as I value an e-mail from a Boalt alumn at some law firm, I think an e-mail describing precisely what firms will be doing which phase, yada yada yada. A bit more advanced knowledge of deadlines would also be nice. Gotta sell my soul to firms for the reception, but I will try to add more to this later.
The e-mail is a long addendum to yet an earlier e-mail. It begins:
"In response to several student inquiries, we thought the following clarifications were in order with respect to entering your class and scheduling conflicts."
[Caution, rant ahead] Look, the basic function of that office is to pass along information. And they are completely and utterly incapable of doing so. Beginning with the atrocious layout of the website that's only gotten worse with the summer revamp, all the way to the "binders" that contain all you need to know to become a partner in under 6 years and/or sue 200000 slum lords, the flow of information is mediocre at best. If the first e-mail, actually, if at some very earlier point such as the summer, we had been given CLEAR, step-by-step guidance, then you wouldn't have several hundred anxious 2Ls clamoring at your door.
I took care of whatever I needed to take care of just fine. I don't need anyone to hold my hand, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist (read: BTLJ member) to see how things can very easily be improved. As much as I value an e-mail from a Boalt alumn at some law firm, I think an e-mail describing precisely what firms will be doing which phase, yada yada yada. A bit more advanced knowledge of deadlines would also be nice. Gotta sell my soul to firms for the reception, but I will try to add more to this later.
Labels: OCIP/Employment
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 4:43 PM
1 Comments:
Call me inattentive, incompetent or incontinent, but that little email saved me from irrevocably posting my old resume to my Phase I bids. Oh Horror if MoFo didn't know what I did this summer!
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