A thread for College/Uni Bums

[Judge's Daughter]

Oh man that really does suck. To anyone considering doing law, don't. Unless you want to be anti-social and spend most of your day in your room doing essays lol.

[Lee Wills]

yep, i know a couple of law hermits up here as well. poor buggers. don't u have do some really ewrid expensive training thing after ur 3rd year aswell?? i think they said it costs like 8 grand or summin

[Lee Wills]

ewrid? no thats not it ... i think i meant weird (i just made a new word tho, cool :P)

[Judge's Daughter]

Yeah, once you have spent three years of your life slavering away to get your degree.Once you pass that you then basically have to try and either get a Training Contract or a Pupillage. Depending on what route you want to go down i.e solicitor or barrister.

So yeah that is the training anyways, not too sure of the cost but all I do now is that is bloody competitive and hard to get either one.

[Lee Wills]

owww rough , du know which 1 u wanna go into yet?

[Judge's Daughter]

Hmmmm.......I was thinking of going down the whole solicitor route. It's competitve and really hard to get a training contract but slightly easier than going into the whole barrister thing.
Also solicitors don't have to go into court that often so I probably wil deff stick with that. Already had an experience on my course for one of my assignments what it is to be like in court and argue. I did really well just didn't enjoy what I was doing. At the end of the day what is the point in doing a job like that just for the money. You got to at least feel confident in the work you are doing.

[Lee Wills]

I'll drink to that like. I'm told the lowest of the low in the law world is the personal injury people *cough* theives! *cough* . if you can avoid doing that im sure u'll do fine

[Judge's Daughter]

Yeah, we are currently doing personal injury stuff at the moment. It's ok I suppose, but hasn't really interested me. I just can't wait for my second year when you can choose your modules, that should be fun.

[Lee Wills]

cool, my uni is weird with that, i had to pick modules for the 1st year , all the second year ones were compulsary and i get to pick em again wen i go back and do my 3rd year. seems a lil odd to me but im through them now luckily.

[Judge's Daughter]

That is strange lol. That doesn't even make sense to do that. What uni do you go to then and what are you studying?

[Lee Wills]

well this bit doesnt sound paticularly normal either tho, im in Reading uni studying applied computer science and cybernetics. its stuff with robots and that

[Judge's Daughter]

Sounds umm...interesting and very complicated lol. Well I am currently in Lancaster Uni studying Law as my major and Politics and International Relations as my minor. Oh joy!!

[Lee Wills]

lol, some bits are quite cool (i made a dragon like) but i just sit down, smile and nod in the lectures .... its easier that way your course is definatly summin to be proud of , it sounds pretty intense

[Judge's Daughter]

Thank you. But I know what you mean about the whole lecture and seminar thing lol. Just nod in agreement to what everyone else is saying so it looks like you know what you are on about!

[Lee Wills]

its seems to work pretty well in work with me too lucky really cos half the time i havnet got a clue wtf the users r on about ...