Done with My 1L Year!

Just finished my property final exam (a 3-hour take-home). Wow, done. I'm done with one 1L year! (At least academically. There's still the week-long Law Review competition that starts on Friday, but I'd rather not think about that right now).

The property final went okay, I thought. The questions seemed straight forward, and I knew my rules and cases reasonably well, and even had the wherewithal to put a bit of humor into my answers.

Contracts this Monday, however, was another story. It was brutal, partly because I hadn't slept the night before. (I thought I was tired enough to go to sleep just on my own, around 11 or so. By the time I realized this was NOT true, it was too late to take a sleeping pill.) So the early part of the 8 hours I was fighting back sleepiness. The later part of the 8 hours I was frantically writng and not having enough time. Was a pretty horrible expereince all around.

However, my experience pretty much accorded with everyone's. And since there's a curve, it's all up in the air.

My experience with contracts was by no means the worst. Apparently, all sorts of mishaps happened on the way to the exam. Two people from my section neer took it. One was suspected by his doctor to have mono. The other one has no explanation thus far. So, these people would apparently have to either make up for the exam in the next few days, or retake contracts next year. Yikes.

Also, a girl drove in from another town (where she was spending the night with her boyfriend), and could not get to the exam until 2.5 hours later because of the flooding.)

THEN, another guy apparently wrote the entire exam in the library (b/c he lived too far awy to go home). THEN, as he was priting, his computer crashed, and the entire file was GONE. He has to retake contracts next year as well, OR retake the contracts exam from the same professor. Either way it's pretty horrible.

Another girl also, for no explanation as far as I could tell, turned in her exam 20 minutes late. Not sure yet what the consequences of THAT is.

Argh, exam season. So much stress and drama. It's finally all over.

:D After 9 days of rain, we finally see the sun today!
:( My summer employer wants yet MORE stuff. I'm seriously worried about them getting the security clearance done on-time.