1. American law students really like wearing suits to class. Someone told me its due to some module making it compulsory for them to wear suits, but that doesn't explain why 4 out of 10 students wear suits to class.
2. Michael Hwang and M. Sonarajah are really famous. My arbitration professor at BU knows them. When we say we are from Singapore, he dropped their names, as if they are tourist landmarks!
3. The weather here is schizo. It can be as hot as back in Singapore one day, and then the next day its gets all windy and raining and we have to wear our jackets.
4. You don't have to read everything on the reading list. Back in Singapore, having a reading list means you should read everything on it; or at least the professors keep telling you that. Over here, the professors (at least in a few classes) tell you that the reading list is only to give you a headstart on researching for your paper, and that you only need to read those that they specify. And then there's "read", and there's "skim read". Go figure.
5. Getting to school doesn't necessarily means getting to your classroom. The lifts are slow. and its 15 storeys to your classroom. Makes you think twice about the TTH quip that "only old people like Sonarajah take the lift".
6. There are LLM students, and there are LLM students. Some LLM students are really here just to have fun. Some of them though are here to study like their lives depend on it.
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American students wear suits because it is their interview season now, isnt it?
haha yeah you are right. I just found out about it from my JD buddy today.
who are michael hwang and sonarajah! (haha pardon my ignorance.)
ahhaha my god u dunno? sonarajah is the banking prof in NUS! the one that TTH made fun of last time?
and michael hwang is a SC, and the current president of the Law Society.
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