Barbri was brutal today. The subject was MPT which, apparently, is just fact spotting (learned that 1L year) and instruction following (learned that in 3rd grade). It was so slow and pointless that a few people left during the first break. Then people started walking out during the lecture. The crowd started to thin out and until all that was left was a few self-loathing souls starring at a $2500 video.
Now you’d think this would happen often during 4 hour lectures about Commercial Paper. But this was, believe it or not, the first mass walk-out.
Then I remembered a humorous story of another walk out.
My friend Brett from Blafayette invited his grandparents out to visit him in Blafayette. What does a 24 year old guy do with his grandparents? Usually visit them, eat your grandma’s pot roast, lift something heavy that your grandpa can’t without hurting his back, and listen to how your cousin Jeremy is med school.
Brett had to fill the evening somehow. His grandparents were old, so he thought they might like to see someone else who is old. So, he bought tickets to George Carlin.
Now, to say Brett’s grandparents are conservative is an understatement. There were two things they didn’t stand for, democrats and, except for the occasional N-word, profanity. Needless to say, George Carlin’s liberal attitude towards both politics and censorship didn’t go over well. Brett’s grandparents walked out and the three of them settled for enjoying an awkward ice cream together instead.
I sat in class for another 5 minutes and then walked out, myself, while professor Spak kept jabbering on.
“Man,” I said to myself, “This guy is no George Carlin.”
