The College Labor and Employment Lawyers is now accepting submissions for 2009 on public or private labor or employment law. The good news is the scope is broad as you can select any subheading under labor or employment law. Also, a basic skeleton for your writing is provided on their website. All law students are eligible to participate. First prize is $1,500, second prize is $1,000 and third prize is $500. For more information visit their contest page. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2009.
Archive for November, 2008
Will Student Loans Be Available?
November 21st, 2008 by Kris
Everyone is well aware that both the US and global economy have become very weak. If you are not one to read further into the current crisis (and believe me the word “crisis” is warranted) then let me just tell you that money will be much harder to come by and many will lose their employment. By many I mean that you will almost certainly know of someone that will be layed off during severe economic contraction.
The degree of harm in the current economy is so severe that you may even find that educational lending institutions will be more selective into who they lend to. Read: they may stop lending. Beyond any traditional concept you may have of the people that loan you money for college, remember that they are still a lending institution with rational thoughts. That is, if a lender suspects there is a high probability that it may not be able to recover a loan, it will not lend the money.
Thus, given our financial climate I suggest you borrow to your full capacity on your next application as you may find future funds unavailable or at an exhoribitant interest rate (this would act as some sort of a hedge for the lender). If you know you will need to borrow again in the future, I highly recommend you take this action. Money is and will be much harder to come by. Having a holdover of student loan cash this semester will better enable to continue your education next semester and the semester after that.
Stay prudent and efficient with your spending and continue to work vigorously to climb ahead.
Staying Healthy
November 18th, 2008 by Kris
Maintaining your heath is very important, but in law school it is crucial. You simply cannot afford to lose chunks of time trying to recover from illness. Obviously you want to take care of the obvious methods of staying healthy: exercise, eating right, washing your hands, etc but I’d like to recommend adding DanActive to your routine. I strongly endorse DanActive as a nice additive to help maintain your health. Dannon heralds itself as a probiotic dairy drink that helps strengthen your immunity. I don’t claim to know the science behind it, but I can attest to feeling better after having a DanActive. I usually drink one in the morning or whenever I start feeling under the weather. An 8 pack with 2 “free” bottles comes out to roughly $4.50 in the grocery store so it is a little pricey, but if you look around in the Sunday paper or grocery store, you can probably find coupons. You can also stretch the price by drinking one every other day. Either way, if DanActive can in any way help you stay out of the doctors office and in class, the price is well worth it.