People who are in law school currently can relate to this post, and people who will be in law school soon, take note. As many know and many more will find out, the LSAT is NOT a good predictor of law school performance. Students have been proving it wrong since its inception. This doesn’t mean a bad score on the LSAT doesn’t sometimes indicate poor performance, but it also doesn’t mean that a good score on the LSAT indicates excellent performance. That is obviously not what this rant is about, as true as it may be. This rant is about facebook status updates.

Everyone has a different experience and different involvement with facebook, which is quickly becoming a more eye friendly MySpace. You have those who update their status every five to seven minutes, updating all 4,000 of their friends about their day to day activities, “eating fruit loops with toucan sam”, “trying to get motivated to go to the gym”, “going to the gym”, “napping after the gym”. Then you have those who you wonder if they even use their facebook and for what purpose they have one. As lame as those kids’ profiles may be, they are NOT the ones this rant is intended for. This rant is intended for the facebook status updaters who feel as if the more they publicize their law school experience, the better their grades will be.

FALSE.

First, constantly updating your status to say “12 hours in the library studying for torts today, UGH, so tired, but back at it again tomorrow”, and “OMG, I have NO life anymore because of law school finals, all I do is study study study”, will not increase your grades. Your professors are not reading your status updates, they don’t care how much you’re studying for their exams and even if they were reading them, its anonymous grading.

Second, and this is my absolute favorite. The kids that are supposedly studying for 12 hours a day in the library for their contracts, or criminal law finals, will update their status 10 to 15 times, and then write on their friends wall, your wall, comment on photos, upload photos, update their info, and then add another status and this all being updated for everyone else to see. It’s hard to argue you’ve been studying for 12 or 13 hours straight when it’s obvious you’re putting more effort into your profile than your outline. Do yourself and everyone else a favor, stop putting so much effort into your status and the work that takes your 12 hours to finish could be done in 7 and you can catch that episode of Family Guy you TiVo’d.

Just take this as a friendly reminder, it doesn’t matter how many times you update your status that your studying so hard for your finals and have no life because law school has consumed it, professors do not take this into consideration when grading your finals and most likely your friends don’t care and don’t want to read it, so give it up.