I’m obviously biased, but I find his posts about daily life and his travels in the region (most recently to Sudan), incredibly interesting and thoughtful.  Most of us are starting our legal jobs, and his work sounds worlds away from what I imagine most of us are doing…

http://jtinuganda.blogspot.com/ 

Maybe there’s hope after all…

I guess a graded essay with a score of "3" is their way of putting us – from the shaking heads I saw around the auditorium, all of us – on notice. Surely there’s a better way.

See also Corporations questions on LLCs and partnerships; Corporations lecturers who spend no time on LLCs and partnerships.

“Was it all multiple choice?” I asked. “And how did they grade it?” I was thinking of my own exams. “Did they count only the right answers.?”

When he said Yes to all the questions questions, I did not have the heart to tell him what I knew as a mathematical certainty—that the exam was, like most graduate medical exams, and large parts of legal licensing bar exams in most states , virtually a complete fraud.

The reason these tests are fraudulent—and the harder they are, the more they are fraudulent—is that for an extremely difficult test graded in that way, guessing tends to count much more than knowledge.

Read the whole thing. I guess the lesson is: stop studying and start praying.

Or, what about this?

I am totally baffled. Amused. But baffled. Gravel claims they’re a metaphor, but I don’t know if I buy it. Some commentators have suggested the rock in the first video represents Iraq, while the “lighting a fire” thing in the second video seems a little trite. I think it may be some goofy filmmakers taking the piss out of him. The comments to the videos are hilarious: “Its refreshing to see a candidate who gets it” says armyguy001.

Riiiight.