I just finished my Civil Procedure final. I feel really good about my short essay and my multiple choice sections, but I'm less than confident about the long essay. I felt good when I left, but now I feel that I should have written more (I didn't stop writing for 1.5 hours) I feel that I should have written the rules better (though I remembered to write most of them) I feel like I should have spotted more issues (but I honestly can't think of anything else I could spot). I'm just doubting myself. I don't know what I expected. I feel that I did all that I could. Why isn't that enough? I think I did well. Well could be a C+ though and I'm ok with that. I just don't want to know what anyone else got, or anyone else to know my grades.
Part of it is that I wrote my exam and others typed it. I feel that typing people automatically had an advantage. A collegue wrote 2400 words. I feel there is no way I wrote more than 1500. It seems that I have about 1000 words less, therefore about 1/3 less of a chance to get a good grade. Why do I do this to myself? I need to forget and move on. I will by tomorrow, but right now it's on the front of my mind and I can't shake it. I think this is just my insecurity. I did as well as I could. I know that. I think that my collegue would probably have written that same amount and I would have ended up typing only 1500 words anyway, so there's no real difference. I typed my property practice test and that was only 1600 anyway, so I probably wrote the same amount as I would have. Maybe people just wrote more about a topic but I got the same amount of points for each topic. I don't know.
Law school is stressful. I need to just move on. Contracts is next. Must focus.
I also feel that if I don't do well, people will think differently than me. It's a lot of pressure.
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That collegue probably has an extra 1000 words of blah, blah, blah. Seems to me that a lot of teachers like things to be more to the point. Also depends on writing style -- some people use a lot of unnecessary words, yo.
You just need a cheerleader or something. "Go Ryan! Study, study, study! Write, write, write! Then work that cramp out of your hand and arm or it will hurt or something! Yay!" What a crappy cheer. - Danonymous (Wow, that's awesome how I combined my name with the word "anonymous." Sweet.)
Listen Ludman, you did fine. Yes, I wrote 2400 words. And was it all necessary? No. Am I now freaking out because you and your blogging friends are forcing me to acknowledge that I wrote too much and probably nothing on point? Yes. Thank you. If you ever refer to my as your colleague again I will kill you. I spend 10 hours a day with you. We eat many meals together. We watch presidential debates and You Got Served. We are known as one here. Your colleague? I think not. That’s salt on my not-concise and wasteful wound. I hate you.
Your “colleaugue”
Oh,la, la. I'm so intrigued by the colleague. He seems so...angry. That's hot.
Don't stress about the test now, Ryan. It's done, there's nothing more you can do.
Amendment: My Colleague is a woman. Beth. Her name is Beth. She's hot. She's really hot. But she's taken. She wrote a lot. I'm sure we both got As though we wrote different amounts. At law school, Beth and I are One. Funny story: Today I was walking around and one of my classmates, said "She went that way" when I was looking for Beth, but I didn't ask or indicate it in any way. It's weird. We've got a psychic connection.
That's Beth. Beth is happy fun law!
Thanks Ludman. Appreciate the compliments. Hot people stick together, that's what we are one. From this point on I will be referred to as "The Colleague." I've owned it and am no longer hurt -- kind of like how I've owned that I got a 'B' on the exam, I don't care what the school has to say! I GOT A B. And Mr. Excellent received the A that he deserves. You rock Ludman.
Typed it? Was it a take home? We're not allowed to type our in-class exams. No computers allowed. That's wild.
C+ in Civ Pro is perfectly respectable! Er... anyway. I'm sure you did FINE. You studied really hard, and you felt confident. Don't start second-guessing yourself now. It'll just give you ulcers. And maybe gas.
Ok, so this morning I talked to some people and they were saying how they miss read the question and I'm like, "ahhh, did I misread the question!" I think I read it thoroughly but I don't know! If I did misread it then I left out something, so that means I probably would have had time for it anyway. I guess there is no sense worrying about it now. I just remember to read the question thoroughly.
I am perfectly content with a C+. Honestly. I won't be a legal superstar, but I'll be passing and I think that's a pretty average grade in law school. Alas, we'll have to wait and see.
Trying not to flip out. Must focus on the next exam.
Oh, and at UT you can either type or write the exam in class. There is a software program that allows you to type it and blocks the rest of your computer. I wrote mine because the program didn't work on my laptop. I thought the writing wasn't bad at all....
Anyway. Blah. I hate stress.
I want Jessica to hit on Beth more. Granted, I'm a total homo, but it's still hot ;)
I don't want any lesbionic action on my blog unless I can charge for it. Plus I don't think Beth would be very responsive to it.
This *is* the Wixom Vixen we're talking about. Her powers are great!
Anywho, I'm glad you have one exam out of the way. We'll be friends even if you get an F, although I'm sure you did faboo.
Keep on truckin'!
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