It was at the end of Torts yesterday, when the professor posed this answer: "It would be considered the Iowa equivalent of ...[a case on proximate causation that we had just read]. Ms. [my last name], you should know this."
I racked my brains for the case and couldn't think of it. I looked around at my fellow classmates who were obviously as perplexed as I was. But she kept hounding me: "Ms. [my last name], its an Iowa case, you should know this, shouldn't you?"
I finally responded: "I'm from NEBRASKA, they're not the same state."
The professor looked really embarrassed and apologized. She didn't even know that I was from the Midwest, she just thought that I had presented this case to the class (I hadn't; was another girl with a last name that started with the same initial).
I found this to be a very important educational moment for all of my Yankee classmates. The Midwest is actually compromised of individual states. Shocking, I know.
***Update***
I received an apology email from my torts professor. She admitted that " [my] mystification at [her] suggestion...was entirely appropriate."
In case you're keeping score:
Law School 613
Hers 3
Its been a long long semester.
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4 comments:
Quite shocking indeed! ;o)
- Lauren
She was probably confused thinking that the Nebraska Territory had never been subdivided to create Montana, Wyoming and Colorada. It, however, never included Iowa as their politics are way too liberal
I am so glad that you got 3 you are doing way better than I would!!! I am proud of you for your first semester under your belt. I am still crying inside though!! :)
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