"BAS" (Before Academic Support)

Those of us who are over 50 ... okay, maybe even 40 ... have dark memories about attempting law school without academic support. 

Paula Poundstone - who, as far as I know, never attended law school - seems to sum up law school life before academic support . . .

"My mom told me how she learned to swim.  Someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat.  That's how she learned how to swim.  I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"   (djt)