Thursday, October 4, 2012

Law School and Fun with Numbers!

Law School in One Number: 15,000 => The approximate word count of the notes that I have taken in the past week

Some numbers for comparison:

455,125 – The Lord of the Rings
47,094 – The Great Gatsby
24,476 – All of the blog posts I wrote while in London
13,082 – My senior thesis combined with my Independent Study project
7,924 – My senior thesis alone

If you convert between photos and words at a rate of 1000 words/photo, I arguably saved myself 480,000 words while studying abroad by switching from blogging to posting pictures to Facebook. Sadly, that option is not available in Law School.

Joel "I spend a lot of time at my computer." Graczyk

2 comments:

  1. Ha! That was wonderful, and that is way too many notes. I am impressed with all your numbers; it gives good perspective.

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  2. Ok so 15,000 x 38ish weeks of classes in a standard school year=570,000 words. By the end of your 1L you will be in the "Atlas Shrugged" and "War and Peace" range.

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