Well She Was Just 17
A Boalt 3L, who shall remain anonymous for his maniacal gun-totting views (see Boalt Blogroll) e-mails me the parody below. I figured Boalties are all tired of studying, so I'm using this as a starting point for other parodies anyone wants to write.
Get a P (to the tune of Let it Be)
When I find myself a week from finals,
Robert Berring comes to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
Get a P.
And all through office hours,
He is staring at a random tree,
Speaking words of wisdom:
Get a P
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P.
Write down any answer, get a P
And if the half-retarded people
Graduate with a JD,
You can P through law school
Get a P.
For though they hardly studied,
They will surely always get a P.
Write down any answer,
Get a P.
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P.
Write down any answer,
Get a P.
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P.
Whisper words of wisdom:
Get a P.
Get a P (to the tune of Let it Be)
When I find myself a week from finals,
Robert Berring comes to me,
Speaking words of wisdom:
Get a P.
And all through office hours,
He is staring at a random tree,
Speaking words of wisdom:
Get a P
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P.
Write down any answer, get a P
And if the half-retarded people
Graduate with a JD,
You can P through law school
Get a P.
For though they hardly studied,
They will surely always get a P.
Write down any answer,
Get a P.
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P.
Write down any answer,
Get a P.
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P.
Whisper words of wisdom:
Get a P.
Labels: Exams, Grades And Other Neurotic Bullshit
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 1:14 PM
8 Comments:
It's true, anything will get you a P
When I was a 3L, I took Intellectual Property. I went to the first class and never opened the book. The next time I thought about IP, I was sitting in the final exam.
I went in with an outline and permitted reading materials. I completed only half the exam. I had no idea what I was writing in the portions that I did complete.
Still got a P.
So, for those freaking out right now with finals looming - try not to let it get to you too much, it's almost impossible to Sub-P. And always remember, P = JD.
Armen,
That's friggin' hilarious, brother. My only complaint is that you didn't do the whole song!
I didn't write it. I say that at the beginning.
My mistake. Thanks for posting it anyhow.
How's this for an ending?
And if I didn’t study,
There is still a firm out there for me,
I’m dreaming of Sonsini and a P.
I wake up to the sound of music
Stephen Bundy comes to me
Singing words of wisdom: Get a P.
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P,
Singing words of wisdom, get a P.
Get a P, get a P, get a P, get a P,
I heard that Earl Warren got a P.
Nice work. But if you mean CJ Earl Warren, I don't think they had Ps back then. And if you mean the Earl Warren on this blog, well, I don't think he's gotten any Ps either. Sorry. Good song though. It's been in my head for two days now, making a mockery of my study efforts.
Actually, I'm reading the biography of -- who else? -- Earl Warren right now, and though there's only a pitiful 2/3 page about EW at Boalt, it has a couple of interesting nuggets. First, as this magnificient song lyric suggests, Warren WAS a 'P' student -- no academic honors or awards of any kind.
At one point, the Dean warned him that his lack of participation in class was jeopardizing his graduation. Warren -- showing a remarkably rare fondness for textualism -- looked up the academic rules and came back to the Dean to tell him that the academic code said nothing about speaking in class. The Dean dropped it and EW graduated. Scalia would have been proud!)
He also held an off-campus paralegal-type job -- in violation of the honor code, which prohibited enployment while in law school.
The punchline, I think, is that, yes, you too can get all Ps, even bend a few rules, and grow up to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. That shit don't happen at Harvard!
A version of a "Let it be" parody was the closing song for some annual celebration that occurs at Boalt every December that I shall not mention here, my 1L year. Way back in 2002.
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