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$2400/week
That's right: some law students are making $2400/week!! this summer interning for big firms in NYC. It says so right here (scroll down to August 4), but since I don't see permalinks or archives I'm just gonna quote the story because it's a good story and worth saving for posterity:
Smooth Criminal
Friday was the last day of work for the summer associates here. They're like summer interns but they don't do any work. They get paid $2400 a week (not a typo) and get taken out to fancy dinners and fancy lunches. It's how law firms recruit you before buying your soul.
Friday night I got into the elevator with one of the summer associates. We were both leaving for the night. He had a folder in his arms so I leaned over and looked in jokingly, asking if he was stealing office supplies on his last day.
Sure enough, there were 5 or 6 legal pads, 4 post-it note pads still wrapped, and a box of pens.
Now, it's not that my firm can't afford it. It's just that this guy was making $2400 a week and still found it necessary to steal some fucking pens.
And his stupidity was astounding. NOBODY steals office supplies on their last day- you're supposed to steal them the day before your last day so nobody notices. I can't work with an attorney that dumb.
So now I have to decide whether to go and report this asshole to the recruiting people. But I think that I should take care of this problem like a true attorney: don't snitch on him but make his life a living hell when he eventually comes to work for this firm.
So see, you can be an absolute idiot and still almost pay all your law school bills just by working for three months in the summer. Um, are there strings attached?
Posted 05:51 PM | Comments (2) | law school
SelectSmart Fun
If you're a little overwhelmed by the number of candidates running for President in 2004, try the SelectSmart Presidential Selector. Just answer a few questions and the selector will try to tell you which candidate has views most similar to yours. It even ranks, on a percentage basis, how much you agree (or disagree) with all the other candidates in the race.
My own results weren't wildly unexpected. Selectsmart says my top ten candidates would be:
- Green Party Candidate (100%)
- Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH - Democrat (93%)
- Dean, Gov. Howard, VT - Democrat (90%)
- Moseley-Braun, Former Senator Carol IL - Democrat (83%)
- Kerry, Senator John, MA - Democrat (83%)
- Edwards, Senator John, NC - Democrat (75%)
- Socialist Candidate (75%)
- Leahy, Patrick Senator, Vermont - Democrat (75%)
- Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO - Democrat (74%)
- Lieberman Senator Joe CT - Democrat (73%)
I'm surprised to see Lieberman rank higher than Sharpton, but whatever. And since the Green party hasn't even fielded a candidate (that I know of), and since neither a Green candidate nor Kucinich has a realistic chance of winning, it looks like my top choice is Dean, which is what I was thinking anyway. He's not ideal, but hey, if this SelectSmart thing is right, he's at least 90% ideal (for me), which is pretty darned good.
What does your top candidates list look like?
Posted 08:42 AM | Comments (1) | election 2004
Dude, You're Getting into Hell
If you buy a Dell, do you enter computer hell? Of course not, at least not about 75% of the time. The other 25%, well, you're taking your chances. At least that's what it sounds like from Andrew Orlowski's description of "the finance capitalists' model of what a technology company should be." [Link via Scripting News] In a story about a possible (rumor-only) partnership between Apple and Sun, Orlowski writes:
I guess that means approximately 100 GW Law students will be returning their spanking new, law-school-mandated computers in the next few months. Gotta love that GW computer policy. I mean, it's great that the law school puts the welfare and convenience of its students first.
Posted 07:45 AM | law school mac geek
