I had my last exam this morning. I woke up at 4am and couldn't really get back to sleep, I think it's time to admit that the Long March through the last month of graded memo and final exams has taken a bit of a toll. I expect to pass out tonight at about 7pm.

The exam today was the most merciful and kind of our graded assignments -- very similar to past exams, and quite a bit shorter, a 45 min section that had been promised simply did not appear. Most people seemed to feel pretty good about it afterwards. Of course, this means grade expectations will start high and only go down.

But, as the spring semester tuition bill arrives in our email boxes on cue, we are all reminded that despite whatever worst case scenarios we could envision, everyone is going to pass, everyone is going to be back in January, everyone has gotten through the period of law school with what I'd assume is the most stress per cubic inch across the whole 3 yrs. We've completed one semester, the rest are variations on that theme.

[ no more posts until spring semester starts next month ... have a good holiday everyone ]

20 Dec 04