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Professor E silences the Beaver

November 18, 2009

The one thing I love about my Real Estate Law professor is her ability to control the classroom while keeping a smile on her face.

Yesterday, Eager Beaver, a boy who actively participates in class, was particularly eager to answer Professor E’s questions.

Towards the end of class, Jill was visibly annoyed by Beaver’s participation.

Professor E asked another question to the class. Beaver’s hand shot up. Jill muttered dark threats under her breath and was obviously considering how to make it look like an accident…

Professor E caught Jill’s look of sheer hatred, and then turned to Beaver and said, “You’ve been really good about participating today. How about we give someone else give a chance who hasn’t had the opportunity to speak yet? (then turns to the class) Who wants to speak?”

Other Professor E posts:

1L winter / Law School / legal humor / on the record / unsolicited advice

How not to be an asshole in law school

January 8, 2009

Man on laptop at cafe by Tim Gouw via Unsplash.

Oh, Law School Discussion…how I’ve missed thee. I know I’ve written about gunners before but can we just acknowledge this ridiculousness? The topic of the thread is: “How To Respond To People Calling You a Gunner?”

Gunner: Last semester I amply and vastly participated in class and I could decipher my classmates’ opinion of said participation. How best to respond to these (to put it generously) rather immature individuals?

The first response (by “Stole Your Nose!“) was rather good:

Law School – 1L

Orientation day 1

August 28, 2008

I’ve arrived. Today was the first day of orientation. I met my section of about 50 people, listened to a lot of entertaining speeches, and sat through three hours of FAQ.

My section is an interesting mix of students. I think there are more students with undergraduate degrees from BYU than U Minnesota in my section.

Apparently U Minnesota recruits in Utah. Hm. I think we had a few Creighton university grads as well.

My orientation leaders are fun, but there was so much FAQ-time that the questions began to focus on things that we don’t need to worry about, like OCI, 3rd year, etc.

And yes, we did have that girl, the embarrassing gunner.

All of the sections were together in a huge room for the main speeches. The keynote speaker gave a great speech and fielded questions. Most of the questions were relevant and graciously answered.

Then book girl raised her hand.
“Um, yeah, I read this book by so and so, and while you had valid points the book focused on this and that, the book’s author focused on this and disagreed with you…”
She went on for a few minutes about this book.
Book girl: “So did you read the book? And what is your opinion?”
The keynote speaker looked at her, like wtf, and told her that he hadn’t read the book, and didn’t really care for the author.

Yikes.

People talked about “book girl” for the rest of the day. I’m glad I didn’t see her face. I don’t want to have that horrible impression of her.

I was also almost peer pressured into getting chicken at the BBQ, but that is another story.

Tonight: DNC and political debate with the housemates. Orientation day II is tomorrow. Vöt!