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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
So a thing anyone* who has been in law school knows is the hate most feel for the "gunners," or students who talk too much, ask stupid questions, are clearly full of themselves. It just makes the lectures long and unbearable. In fact, there is a thing called "asshole bingo" where you have a card with the 5 worst offenders crossed with 5 types of dumb questions. We'd be in class, and one of the usual suspects would ask something stupid, and from the back of the room you'd hear "BINGO!"
My son is in his first year of law school. Zoom school is certainly not ideal for a lot of reason, but there is one improvement. His class got a memo on proper Zoom class behavior. Apparently after an especially stupid question someone sent a chat to "All" "I wish this guy would shut up!" And pretty soon a chat fight had broken out.
I would have loved to be able to say it like that. Saying "BINGO!" was passive aggressive, not very satisfying TBH.
*except for the gunners, I suppose? Ty?
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I went to a school with a strong commitment to the Socratic method. First year, there weren't really any gunners. The professors did a pretty good job of keeping control of the discussion and picking on different people. Not having been to law school with gunners, we didn't really know what we were missing. At the start of the second year, a few of them showed up, having transferred in from other schools. They were ostracized somewhat for being tools, or that was my impression, but it was a little hard to tell how much, because on the one hand none of cared as much by the second year, but on the other hand we all knew each and didn't know them to start with, so the gunner accentuated that.
Our games were more professor-specific. With one Torts professor, the joke was that if he called on you and you didn't know what to say, you could just say, "third-party insurance" and you'd be OK. A friend tried it one day, more as a joke for the rest of us, but it worked, and the professor just moved on to his neighbor.
