Day 547: FREEEEEEEEE!
Dec. 14th, 2007 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzThat's right. As of 4:15 PM Central Standard Time today, Nagi was officially free of law school. Why is this momentous, you ask?
Do you really have to ask?
I had to leave very quietly because the other students were still taking their tests. Only one essay on that test, after seventy-odd multiple choice questions. Easier in the first half than in the second half. I think that, ironically, the essay I wrote for this Civ Pro test probably had the best and most consistently neat handwriting of all the essays I had to write.
But once I was out in the parking lot, I ran into Adam (who was bearing booze so he and other law students could join the grand tradition of alcoholism in the legal profession) and I did a cheer and a little dance. Then I got into my car and came straight home. After all the stress and horror, the end was, predictably, rather anticlimactic. But once I get done with this entry I'm going to go open the remainder of my Christmas presents like an eager five-year-old.
But I am so very glad that finals are done. After all the moaning and groaning I've done about law school, don't get me wrong, I love it here. It's been an exciting change - not just the new things I'm learning, about also living on my own (really on my own) in a new place and meeting new people. Law school is awesome. I do love it.
However, I do not love final exams in law school. Anyone who does love them is modern academia's Marquis de Sade. (I don't even think the law professors like exams that much, given that they have to grade them.)
But it's done.
Yesterday was spent mostly studying with Jason, going over flashcards. I did some dancing that morning, because I felt like dancing, and there's this one hula I want to relearn on the off-chance I ever have to teach it to anyone, so there was lots of that nonsense going on. Also, we played Gauntlet and discovered that we have to get ONE MORE FREAKIN' runestone to truly finish the game (even though we knocked off Skorn once already), so I have to do some online cheating to find out what the deal is with this rune stone.
Wow.
I survived my first semester of law school.
I know that all over the country, there are other students who cannot say the same.
*squee!*
And now I have better things to do over the holidays than think of the law...
Do you really have to ask?
I had to leave very quietly because the other students were still taking their tests. Only one essay on that test, after seventy-odd multiple choice questions. Easier in the first half than in the second half. I think that, ironically, the essay I wrote for this Civ Pro test probably had the best and most consistently neat handwriting of all the essays I had to write.
But once I was out in the parking lot, I ran into Adam (who was bearing booze so he and other law students could join the grand tradition of alcoholism in the legal profession) and I did a cheer and a little dance. Then I got into my car and came straight home. After all the stress and horror, the end was, predictably, rather anticlimactic. But once I get done with this entry I'm going to go open the remainder of my Christmas presents like an eager five-year-old.
But I am so very glad that finals are done. After all the moaning and groaning I've done about law school, don't get me wrong, I love it here. It's been an exciting change - not just the new things I'm learning, about also living on my own (really on my own) in a new place and meeting new people. Law school is awesome. I do love it.
However, I do not love final exams in law school. Anyone who does love them is modern academia's Marquis de Sade. (I don't even think the law professors like exams that much, given that they have to grade them.)
But it's done.
Yesterday was spent mostly studying with Jason, going over flashcards. I did some dancing that morning, because I felt like dancing, and there's this one hula I want to relearn on the off-chance I ever have to teach it to anyone, so there was lots of that nonsense going on. Also, we played Gauntlet and discovered that we have to get ONE MORE FREAKIN' runestone to truly finish the game (even though we knocked off Skorn once already), so I have to do some online cheating to find out what the deal is with this rune stone.
Wow.
I survived my first semester of law school.
I know that all over the country, there are other students who cannot say the same.
*squee!*
And now I have better things to do over the holidays than think of the law...
