Perhaps I'm biased, but I believe Notre Dame has to be one of the least adversarial schools in the Top-30. Notre Dame does not publish class ranks, and its emphasis on community has impressed me greatly in the time that I've been here. Add to this the fact that ND's alumni network is world-renowned, and you have a recipe for a pretty peaceful school.

ND football isn't exactly a detriment, either

On the third day of CivPro:

<Super hardline old school prof>: Ok, Ms. _________. State the facts of Pennoyer.

<student>: *5 seconds silence* Um........ *flips page.*

<Prof, with incredulous look>: .....yes?

<student>: *10 seconds silence* Uhhh........ *flips page*

<Prof leans across podium>

<student>: Uh...pass.

<Prof shakes head, takes down note.>


Ouch, day three. Who comes into a classroom on the third day not even being able to state a single fact from the only case we've had assigned, especially at a top tier school?

4 Horsemen is my bad drink. (See: 3 Wisemen, add Johnnie Walker.) Especially when others are buying them for me. Bad bad bad. Although I drank way too many peppermint patties one night at someone else's suggestion; I can't even eat the candy anymore.

How about GOOD experience liquor? Mine's gin--I always have a good time with gin. (Yes, straight. It's christmas in a shot glass.)

Worst-case, about $100k. I'm crossing my fingers that the market will be kind to me and give me juicy 2L SA position (we can all dream, right?), though, which would lower my debt slightly.

$500K (worst case) 
Ask me why I don't care...

OK, I'll bite. Why?

I made it about halfway through PLS II. Other people have said it and I agree--it's got about 50-100 useful pages. The rest feels unnecessary at best for 0Ls (at least, as a 0L myself, I find it highly unnecessary--i.e., I understand that some professors at some schools suck, and I'm sorry about that, but how does that help get me ready for law school?)

I think the week-by-week schedules set out in PLS II are a little intense. The idea of making your way through an entire ~700 page primer for every core course before classes even start seems like overkill. That being said, I find no harm in trying to teach myself at least the basics of BLL. I can't see how it will hurt to know the fundamentals of offer/acceptance, etc., going in.

I'm planning on buying E&Es for the core courses (hell, I'll end up buying study guides anyways, and I've heard good things about the E&Es) and going through at least the first couple hundred pages of each. Already have Blum on Contracts. Glannon on CivPro's coming next week.

Also, I'm still in UG, and I took a law & society course last quarter. It essentially functioned as an overview of the basics of the BLL in the core areas (although the prof skimmed over property pretty lightly). I kind of questioned the value of taking it at first, but I think it's going to turn out to be more helpful than I thought. For instance, I'm 150 pages through Blum, and it's all stuff that I had already learned in this class (mailbox rule, consideration for options, etc).