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Q&A with Huma Rashid: Part I

Law school can be awful. The workload. The pressure. The stress. It’s not always an easy path. However, the study of law does have some redeeming qualities. For me, the best part is the people I have gotten the chance to interact with through this journey. One of those is Huma Rashid, a wise-cracking, whip-smart law student living and studying in Chicago. Her blog, The Reasonably Prudent Law Student, never fails to amuse. (I highly recommending reading through her archives.) After I mentioned her blog back in September, we started talking through the Interwebz and I became obsessed. Yes, that’s right. I became a fangirl. Every night after class, I would comb through her Twitter and laugh out loud at her astute observations. So I begged her to share some of her wisdom with us poor first-year students. I begged and I pleaded and after she finished her final exam, Huma answered all of my nagging questions. Enjoy.

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Mondays are always strange

So in a misguided attempt to distract myself, I managed to read an actual, honest-to-goodness, paper-and-ink newspaper today. Here’s what I found:

1. Chinese chap accused of stealing Apple’s iPhone secrets. Commits suicide. Girlfriend gets laptop for compensation. What?

“Even so, the company paid compensation to Mr. Sun’s family. It declined to say how much, but Mr. Sun’s brother cited a figure of 300,000 renminbi, or more than $44,000, and said Mr. Sun’s girlfriend was also given an Apple laptop computer.”

Your boyfriend just committed suicide so they make up for it with a laptop? I sure hope she refused to take that. On the other hand…I’d do just about anything for a Mac Powerbook.

2. Go unions! Teachers at charter school KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) recently unionized.

“In recent months, teachers have won union recognition at schools including the Boston Conservatory Lab School, a school in Brooklyn that is part of the Knowledge Is Power Program, an Afro-centric school in Philadelphia, four campuses in the Accelerated School network in Los Angeles, and a Montessori school in Oregon. Moves toward unionizing have revealed greater teacher unrest than was previously known.”

Anyone who knows a teacher who work at a charter school knows this is a good thing.

3. The whole Jersey fiasco distracted everyone from Vince Fumo. Good? Bad?

4. I will have no job in the future.

Sex-based discrimination in classrooms

Is not a surprise. Male professors do tend to favor pretty girls :) But I was interested in this piece posted on the blog  Overheard in Philly yesterday morning.  I wonder if anyone at Drexel Law ever read it?

Tenure and Senility Are A Winning Combination

Posted: 21 Jan 2009 11:37 AM PST

Male professor, possibly age 75

Professor to attractive female student: “My you are beautiful and I do love your hair like that. Listen class, I am partial to girls. Women are here to look pretty. A girl should take care of herself and get dressed and do her hair–especially for my class. If you want an A in my course, you’re a girl, and you read the assigned chapters before class.”

Professor continues to flirt with everything that moves and has breasts.

Drexel University, Business Law 201
Overheard by a guy who isn’t getting an A because he’s a dude

* Let’s see if the department chair…or any Drexel Profs…read this blog. Seriously, if this is true it’s time for Professor Happy to move to the farm in the country.


Phillygrrl goes to law school

z16And other musings for today.

So I’m starting to wonder. What’s with all the Philly bloggers with legal careers? There’s David Snyder, lawyer by day, food critic Philafoodie by blogname. And of course our very own Mithras, who is our favorite mostly because he comments on PG :) There was also Ali Eteraz, who’s given up on the blogging game. And of course PhillyChitChat, who’s a paralegal. Coincidence or correlation? You decide. Continue reading