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It’s truly an enriching activity
But mooting is more beneficial for cv and other legal skills
It’s a difficult choice for me
But I’m sure you can find ways to do debating without needing college permission
Like are they going to stop you from participating?
You can learn a lot of debating online - lectures better than what your debsoc can teach (let me know if you need links for those)
And join online spars/ mocks
A lot of us do those on country wide groups
The 3rd year girl had already written a whole letter of narratives at NLUD. Now just defend it. People are not ready to accept the hollowness, This place has. Only MEDIA hype.
What exactly is the university doing that 4 such young students have killed themselves in last few weeks? SHAME.
Young people, particularly in early adolescence, are at a sensitive phase of development. Their brains are developing, their relationships with others are developing, their identity and self-esteem are also developing. And right now, when I talk to young people on the road, they consistently tell me three things about social media: They say it makes them feel worse about themselves; it makes them feel worse about their friendships; and they can’t get off it.
This is not surprising, in part because these platforms have been designed to maximize the amount of time people spend on them, not necessarily to maximize how well you spend that time or how supported you are in your development of healthy relationships. Not only are adolescents spending many hours on social media each day, but that is time that they are taking away from sleep, from exercise, from in-person interaction with people, from schoolwork and from other activities that may bring them joy.
There’s also the experience that many people have on social media of being exposed to harmful content, and of being immersed in a culture where they are constantly comparing themselves to other peoples’ profiles and posts, which often leads them to feel worse about themselves. This is despite the fact that what you see on social media is not always an accurate reflection of what’s happening.
Young people tell me they feel caught up in hustle culture. What they’re saying to me was that they felt that they were being asked to chase certain objectives — getting a job with a fancy title, making a lot of money, becoming famous, acquiring power. And not only did many of them say that they were exhausted, but they weren’t sure that was going to bring them happiness. This is where we have to pause and ask ourselves: Are we pushing our kids to pursue what’s really going to lead to their happiness and their fulfillment?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/health/surgeon-general-adolescents-mental-health.html
And many 'tier3' NLUs too
Any help would be dearly appreciated.
Thank you.
I am an A1 working in a projects team of a T-1 firm. What are my chances of shifting to M&A. While my team primarily focuses on project development, I have experience in projects M&A and gen corp advisory as well.
Is this something peculiar to NLUD, or just part of the larger unfortunate trend of suicides happening across law schools? If it’s the latter, are we then seeing the inevitable repercussions of the mental health trauma late-Gen Z has undergone??? To recap, this generation was born between 2003 to 2006, so their life would have been as follows: 1) infancy during a global recession; 2) childhood during the social media boom (and associated bullying and extremism); 3) adolescence during COVID lockdowns and learning from screens, without any social interaction; 4) current college years during a period of jobless growth, high stress, tough competition and toxic atmosphere in college. … Surely this is going to take a toll?
But what about the job market? And securing a job afterwards?
The associate their in the practice, would not bother giving any work before 7pm-8pm, and once they gave a work, it would be a mess. The partner also never bothered about the internship, I had zero interaction with them during the four weeks I worked.
This may differ obviously from practice area to practice area, but doing a physical intership will be a much better experience, if you are going to be interning at the firm.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/coldplay-concert-row-bookmyshow-ceo-skips-first-summons-second-notice-issued-101727671203613-amp.html
Mutual Funds - index if you are handsoff (>20% pa)
Direct equity - if you want to play the markets (>40% pa)
What I'm currently trying - looking from alumni from my institute who have internships which I want, and then looking at the path they took before that. Send a few of them a connect request, and ask politely for guidance