My First A

Yeah, I got my first law school A. Still waiting on grades, but totally excited about the A.

I Survived This Time

While I may not have had the stellar performance I had hoped for, I did nevertheless survive law school this time around. With a GPA slightly above the curve I am quite content with my grades. So maybe I'm just an average student, I don't know. There are some areas I probably could have studied a bit more for but overall I feel that I did what I was supposed to do. So now on to worrying about next semester.

How long must I wait!!!!!

So here it is the Friday before classes for the second semester of law school are supposed to start and I only have 2 grades out of the 5 classes I took. The deadline for the professors to submit the grades is actually Tuesday, a day after classes start. It's just crazy. I sit here day in day out for a month and still only have 2 grades. I really am having a hard time understanding why it takes so long to run a piece of paper through a scanner to determine how many I got right on the multiple choice. True the entire test wasn't multiple choice, but the professor for one class had my "final" paper 3 weeks before classes ended so she's had about 7 weeks to grade our exam. Anyway, I sit here on pins and needles awaiting the final grades. Next semester I resolve to not sit here checking my computer every 5 minutes for grades. Ok, no promises, I don't have that much will power. :)

Grades

Well I got my first grade today. I'm happy to report that I did not have a repeat of last year in this class. Last year I did not do well in Contracts and as a result was asked to sit out one year and start over. Well, this year I got a B+. Hopefully the other 4 classes went well also. And hopefully I get those grades tomorrow. I hate the waiting around.

How law school has affected me!

So the other night I'm sitting here catching up on Boston Legal, one of my favorite tv shows, (sad it's over :( ) and suddenly the things they were saying were really irritating me because it could never be true. So I can't remember them all but the number one thing was when Jerry found a case that was totally on point for Allen's argument to the U.S. Supreme Court and said "it's not binding". Well..... no case can ever be binding on the Supreme Court because in order to be binding it has to be from the same jurisdiciton, district, circuit, etc. and has to come from a higher court. Well last I checked the highest court in the U.S. is the Supreme Court so no case can ever be binding. So this is how law school has changed me. I can no longer just watch a tv show and enjoy it, now I analyze everything they say. R has threatened to stop watching any law tv shows with me if I continue to analyze everything because then she doesn't enjoy it.... So I guess I'll have to start watching them when she isn't around, get it all out of my system, and then watch them with her when she gets home and just keep quiet... :)

Other things that law school has done for me is to overanalyze things. I know, anyone who knows me in person knows that I already did this and is thinking to themselves, what is she talking about. Well... people... It's worse. Now every word that someone says I analyze and come up with opposing viewpoints. I don't know how to describe it, but even R says it is worse and sometimes just wishes I would shut up. I question everything more than ever before.

So perhaps all of this is a good sign in the sense that maybe I grasped more this time around. But it just may be a bad sign for everyone else since they have to put up with me. :)

Finals are OVER!!!!

I feel fairly good about finals. Not getting excited about it though. Now I'm stuck playing the waiting game. Hopefully that game doesn't take too long as I can't stand the waiting.

1 down 4 to go - Finals time

So today as I sit here with the start of a cold looming over me I wonder, "why did I decide to put myself through this torture again?" Studying consumes my life and when I'm not studying I feel guilty thinking I should be studying. But sometimes you study so much you don't even know what is left to study and then you get to the final and realize that one topic you didn't study for..... ughhh!!!!!

But I must say that last night's final felt pretty good. I'm probably going to stress about it until I get my grades, but I think I did pretty good.

Tomorrow night's final is my worry, but I feel that I have prepared myself as best as I can so now I just need to give this cold some serious rest so that I can make it through studying and preparing for all of the remaining finals.