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Confessions of an Aspiring Yale Transfer Student

I found the sudden “genius” inspiration today of blogging my 1L confessions in an effort to be noticed by the Yale Law Admissions Office. Whether they (you) are reading this because this blog has become a sudden internet sensation or whether they (you) are reading this because the URL is listed on my transfer application, I hope that this blog finds a place in your life today as a candid, honest look at law school by an over-achiever with a habitually belated sense of purpose. Trust me, if my sense of purpose weren’t always 3 months behind schedule, I wouldn’t be blogging to be noticed for a transfer seat.

Alas, it seems that Tammy Hsu has reconsidered her own “genius.” She has now restricted her blog to invited readers only . But you can still access parts of it via Google Cache , at least for now.

What happened? We’re guessing some people didn’t like Hsu’s idea as much as we did. We understand she has been the subject of critical commentary in threads on Top Law Schools and AutoAdmit. Perhaps she decided to restrict blog access after these online discussions of her work.

Some of the readers who emailed Above the Law about Tammy’s blog also weren’t fans:

“Someone needs to provide her a dose of xfer reality.”

“[A] friend is attending Wake Law and ran across this. Apparently she references many things that are being discussed in the closed Facebook group for their Class of 2014. She’s also on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/tammytweetsnow [ Ed. note : It seems that the Twitter account has been deleted. #tammynolongertweets.]

“Everything about it appears very legit and very… obnoxious.”

“She is not discreet about her intentions. It IS hilarious.”

The other possible problematic aspect of Hsu’s blog is that it is, well, very un-Yale. Declaring your raw naked ambition so openly is much more… Harvard Law . Perhaps Hsu should focus on transferring to HLS, where she’d probably fit in better. Think “Legally Brunette: The Asian Invasion.”

The need to conceal ambition was, to be honest, one of the things that annoyed me most about YLS. Why don’t we just all admit that we’re gunners and would (literally) stab each other in the back for a D.C. Circuit clerkship interview? Pretending to be all warm and fuzzy with each other while secretly plotting how to snag the #1 recommendation from Bruce Ackerman struck me as disingenuous, not to mention a huge waste of time and energy. (On the other hand, it probably wasn’t bad training for lawyer office politics.

Assessing Emerging Challenges In U.S. ... - Yale Environment 360

In U.S. Environmental Health From understanding the cumulative impacts of widely used chemicals to preparing for life in a warming world, a host of environmental health issues now face medical experts. In an interview with Yale Environment 360 , Lynn Goldman, dean of the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, talks about meeting the challenges. Lynn Goldman, a pediatrician and epidemiologist, has spent her professional life trying to understand and alleviate threats from environmental sources, including the impact of chemical exposures on children. Her interest in the field dates back to her childhood in Galveston, Texas, where she grew up along the Gulf of Mexico surrounded by oil refineries and chemical plants that lit up the night sky with eerie blue, green, and orange hues. , Goldman — a former assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Bill Clinton — discusses the many challenges that remain. They range from the continuing health toll exacted by air pollution, to the threat posed by endocrine disrupting chemicals found in everyday products. One thing is certain, says Goldman: Without bipartisan political support, urgently needed legislative action to deal with 21st century environmental health threats will never come to pass. Lynn Goldman: There are a lot of very important environmental health issues and I would place near the top, in terms of immediate risk, air pollution and the fact that every day it’s causing people to prematurely have heart attacks and get respiratory disease — both chronic in adults, and asthma in kids. I would also say our inability to control the risks of toxic chemicals, and the fact that toxic chemicals are on the market without appropriate assessment. It’s a daily risk that we face. And then I would say in the longer term — and it’s really not that long term at this point — the risks of global warming, and the health impacts from that. Goldman: It plays a significant role. I think we are learning that with diseases that we thought were genetic, where we’re not easily finding causes, that while there are genetic susceptibilities, the environment is also playing a major role: in cancer, in learning disabilities in children, in chronic diseases over a lifetime.