Shockingly and sneakily, the end of October has arrived, and with it a large whump of work on the shoulders of a bunch of already overworked 1L's. You may have noticed that my rate of posting has slowed, as has the rate of posting of the other law student blogs I read. Law school is showing its teeth.
The stress in the school has settled into the hallways like a layer of tule fog. There are more students who are sick, more students who miss class, and fewer students who raise their hands in class. Even those of us who love law school are weary.
Exams come at the beginning of December. One hundred percent of our grade in each course is based on our performance on a three hour anonymously-graded exam. All of the reading, all of the briefing, and all of the Socratic questioning mean nothing to the rank-obsessed legal world if we can't perform.
I quit my job and changed my life out of, among other things, a fascination with law. I love my classes and what I'm learning. But it's beginning to dawn on me that this intellectual exercise comes with a vicious coda.
Exams are a part of life. I'll get through them. I just hope that my admittedly somewhat dewy zeal for law isn't utterly crushed by the process.
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We're right there with you. There's been bargaining with professors by students who only briefed the first case in the reading and therefore want to go first, there's been rampant unprepareds and absences, and the professors are alternately enjoying our stress or ignoring it.
And yet, I'm actually enjoying school more than I did a month ago. I'm definitely in the soup, but at least I know that I'm not alone.
I think it really helps knowing that we're all in this together and that I'm not alone in my stress. Once again I am thankful for bloggers and blog-readers!
Just one month left!
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