Day #5 of the 30 Day Film Challenge

[shadowkat]

Day #5 of the 30 Day Film Challenge - A Film where a Character has a job that you want.

Oh dear, this is hard.

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I actually tried to go in this direction in school when I was 18. I took anthropology, I minored in Epic, Myth and Folklore. I traveled to another country and collected ghost stories. But alas - it wasn't meant to be. The Universe had other plans. Probably a good thing - I get claustrophobic (due to exploring one too many tunnels as a kid) and issues with arachnids.

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[cactuswatcher]

I figured it was a little different. In grad school C grades weren't really acceptable. I honestly can barely remember my last multiple choice test. It must have been the Russian Language test for my Master's degree, that I took my first term in grad school, and I don't remember taking any as a college senior other than the GRE to apply for grad school. I certainly didn't give any when I was teaching.

I started taking Sociology as an undergrad minor and hated it. I took a general Anthropology course, liked it and switched to that as a minor.

I didn't know I was dyslexic till late in college. I was lucky it wasn't worse. I'm glad you got some help with taking the BAR. With me from Junior High onward my grades kept getting better, as stuff like handwriting neatness which I honestly couldn't control meant less and less. My teachers didn't know and neither did I.

[shadowkat]

Grad school and law school aren't really comparable. It's kind of like comparing an apple to a banana. You can go and get a Ph.D in Law, although why you'd want to, I don't know - maybe to teach? The difference really is - the end goal. Also, graduating from law school with a JD doesn't make it possible to practice law. I can't practice law right now - I'd have to retake the BAR EXAM and I'd have to do it in NY (which is not happening - NY's bar makes every test you've ever taken look like a cake walk.). I could for about a year or so, practice in Kansas. But you have to take CLE courses every year to keep up your license. And pay about $50-$100 yearly in dues. $50 if inactive, higher if active. Also, just because you are licensed to practice in NY, doesn't mean you are in Kansas or vice versa. I got a license in Kansas, but since I didn't score high enough on the multi-state - I couldn't practice anywhere else.

That's why you can't really compare Grad School to Professional School. One isn't necessarily easier or better than the other - they are just two different ways of teaching and thinking with a completely different end goal in sight. Personally, I think I'd have done better in Grad school - but I don't really know.

I started taking Sociology as an undergrad minor and hated it. I took a general Anthropology course, liked it and switched to that as a minor.

Did the same thing. Hated sociology. Instead went the Anthropology route for my minor.
Sociology reminds me a lot of philosophy and psychology - they are called the soft sciences for a reason. Of the three, I disliked sociology the most.


I didn't know I was dyslexic till late in college. I was lucky it wasn't worse. I'm glad you got some help with taking the BAR. With me from Junior High onward my grades kept getting better,

Same. I found workarounds. Until Law School. I didn't know I was dyslexic until a poetry teacher pointed it out to me in my Sophmore year of undergrad - because she was too, and caught me doing something she'd do to compensate for it. I was reading a poem aloud, and she was watching how I read it.

I think they are handling it better now than when we were in school. A lot of kids weren't as lucky as we were and fell between the cracks.

[cactuswatcher]

One of my nieces who is around your age had dyslexia so bad it showed early on in grade school. I don't know if it was diagnosed. But everyone knew she had no worse than average intelligence, but hated reading because she couldn't do it very well.

I learned my compensating before I ever got to school. It may have been just from being read to a lot. I got very good at guessing what should come next for sentences in context to make sense, which was a giant help in learning to read foreign languages. I never was in the 'slow group' for reading in school but there were hints about my problem all along. Reading the wrong word out loud in class. Terrible trouble getting my hand writing to look like anything. Having to read and reread everything as long as a sentence I wrote in class to make sure I hadn't left something out or written the wrong word. I just thought it was the same for everybody, till a woman who was my professor and my friend kidded me about it.

[shadowkat]

It presents differently for everyone apparently. My family members have various versions of it. My brother and I compensated in different ways. He learned to read faster than I did, but I had less problems reading over time. I just had to figure out how to do it - once I did, I could read anything and fairly quickly in some respects.
He reads slowly and hated reading, but learned it faster. And is better at math and measurements, which make little sense to me.

It's very hard to compare - and I think the reason that a lot of educators miss it in some students - is they are look for definitive symptoms. One size fits all. When that doesn't exist. I remember the psychologist I saw at the premiere psychological testing clinic in Topeka, Kansas -it was actually nationally known. The Menninger Foundation which moved from Topeka to Houston in 2003. I saw them in 1993.

She told me not to call it dyslexia - because that wasn't really it, it's a visual and auditory coordination disorder. They don't really understand it completely. But she told me that I'd managed to come up with all the compensation techniques she'd advise someone to use on my own. And I was doing very well - until I went to law school - where I hit the proverbial wall.

The compensation? I got extra time, someone else would fill out the computer score sheet, I would just circle the items in the test booklet. They'd discovered that the transference of the answer to another sheet was what was causing issues.

I have to do that at work a lot - it's why I hate spreadsheets. But I've come up with compensation techniques now - I check it five times. If I make a mistake, I'll ask someone else to look at it - if I can't find the error. It's made me a bit of a perfectionist and very detail oriented as a result.