My best friend from childhood just passed the bar and became an attorney at a local law firm. Of course I am happy for him because he did work hard for this goal but it gets under my skin a little. We were pretty competitive all through high school and I was the one with the straight A's and he's the one who barely graduated with a 2.0 GPA. Then I was able to go to the more prestigious university and he was admitted to some state school with academic probation. We both planned on going to law school but I guess the difference was the dang LSAT. He had family money that could pay for private LSAT tutors and I just had to study what I could from books. I feel bad for having this kind of envy but I can't help rolling my eyes because the LSAT is not easy for people who don't do well at standardized tests.
I dunno about all that, but if "the difference was the LSAT" then that difference only got him accepted into a law school. After that he would've had to bust his ass, and that's not luck.
he had family that could pay for tutors and all you had was books and any other resource.. sounds like excuses and a bit of a hater growing inside ya
I see your point but it's important to note once accepted, it is very hard to fail out of law school. My dad stopped going to med school for an entire year and they still took him back. Seriously, he started drinking heavily and just said f it and stopped going to class.
There was a kid on my baseball team that would find a four leaf clover every day at practice. I saw him do it, it was insane.
As if your gpa in high school was a good measure of each your relative intelligences. Maybe he's really smart and only tries when he has to ie. on the LSAT.
Hey man just venting in the real life stories section. Can you honestly say you have never felt envious? Keep it real.
I'm the same way. Colleges that looked at my transcript from highschool are completely mindfucked because I have higher grades in classes that were supposedly harder than other classes that I did worse in. It's all just a matter of how much of a fuck I give and if I decide I want to try in that class lol
Why are you so lucky? Are you in the United States? Were you born in an area where you can get food/water/shelter relatively easily? Where even being completely homeless means you can still eat and get water as you need it? Where you don't have to spend nearly every hour you're awake trying to find food and water for your family? Why are you so lucky? It's all a matter of perspective. There's always going to be someone luckier than you, and probably billions of people far less lucky than you.
It's all good bro, your homie is a lawyer, I would be feeling lucky if I were you. Lawyers aint cheap.
Just don't think about it. Mother got run over by a drunk driver when I was younger and was awarded 3 million in damages. Had the guy not run off to florida, and had car insurance, I'd have grown up wealthy. So it goes.
Good, now you've got a friend who's a lawyer. That may end up being extraordinarily helpful for you in the future. Meanwhile, he's doing research and busting his ass. Looks like you lucked out! Down the road, maybe you can go on a crazy trip with him to Las Vegas to find the American dream. Or has that happened before?
Excuses are tools for the weak and incompetent, used to build monuments of nothingness. Those who specialize in them seldom succeed. Good luck, my friend.