$@!$# the PC at Work For Throwing My At-Home Apple Use Into a Tailspin
That's all.
Feel free to share your frustrations & embarrassments during the first week of your summer internship here. (Anyone who ended up in the wrong law firm today after entering the wrong elevator bank, raise your hand. Any hands raised? No hands? Oh. Um, me neither.)
Feel free to share your frustrations & embarrassments during the first week of your summer internship here. (Anyone who ended up in the wrong law firm today after entering the wrong elevator bank, raise your hand. Any hands raised? No hands? Oh. Um, me neither.)
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posted by Patrick Bageant at 5:47 PM
17 Comments:
On my first day last year I locked myself in the building-wide stairwell and had to hike down 21 floors to take the elevator back up. Best $10 I earned all summer other than playing brickbreaker on my blackberry whilst sitting on the can.
here's my first three days, in a nutshell:
number of times that I've heard the summer program is "pared down" this year: 2
number of times that I've heard we actually have to work for offers this year: 3
number of those that were the lexis rep: 2
westlaw rep told us that the room was "a lot fuller last year" and this was the year to do anything and everything to get an offer.
these embarrassing stories are making me fourthsty.
An Apple? Jeez. Guess you were hoping that your firm was part of Apple's 5% market share.
I shouldn't talk though. Can't load Word Perfect onto my Amiga...
A few of my many embarrassing moments last summer:
(1) Upon getting my first assignment with a partner, who graciously took out about an hour of his very expensive time to explain the project to me, I went in for a farewell/thank you/nice to meet you hand shake and, nerves getting the best of me, I completely missed his hand and sort of grabbed his wrist instead. All I could really say at that point was "Sorry," and then went back in for a proper hand shake. Great way to make a first impression.
(2) Standing in the elevator well waiting to go downstairs for coffee (probably the third or fourth time that day) a fellow summer associate and I got bored so we started pulling out those key card, retractable wire attachment things and letting the key card whip around wildly as it retracted back. Eventually, this led to pulling the key card around one's body so, upon returning, the key card was spiraling around my body sort of like a crack-the-whip game or something. Eventually, the elevator doors opened up right as the key card was in full whip-around motion just in time for the office's managing partner, who was exiting said elevator, to see my game. That was fun.
Oh, also unrelated to this post, but I didn't think it warranted a new post: has anybody been able to download Softest, the program we have to use to take the bar on a laptop? I've been searching around trying to find a way to download it so I can take practice tests using it, but have not been successful as of yet.
Hey Caley --- the information on the exam software for the bar exam is here. It gives you all the info on where and how to d/l the file.
I used the men's bathroom today.
I am female.
(ya, i got disoriented about which side of the building i was on, and the bathrooms at my firm are accessible from both sides).
I got a dui after a firm dinner where I drank no more than other people there who were also driving, spent the night in jail, and then went to work the next day having not slept and pretty much looking like I wanted to die. seriously. if you're in a driving city and want to partake in firm dinners, use cabs. Even if it's awkward. I promise it's not as awkward as the alternative.
Have people already started getting their bar exam admission tickets yet? It's now "8 weeks" before the exam but I haven't gotten mine yet.
Have faith, Patrick. By the end of the summer you will master the ridiculous elevator situation at that particular firm. The final exam is trying to go from 18 to 27.
dui guy - did you still get an offer?
more importantly, did you pass the bar's moral character evaluation!?
1 dui is fine for the moral character application...otherwise the country would have no lawyers.
11:10pm: From what I remember I got my ticket aroung the end of June. No need to worry about getting it yet.
First day. Sat at the USA counsel table for calendar. Afterwards, the district judge asked if I was new and what my name was. I answered while seated and received a friendly lecture on courtroom etiquette from the judge. Great first impression.
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