We recently got back our memos, which means that I have an inkling of where I stand in my legal research and writing class. I'm not going to discuss my grade with you but I will discuss how odd it was to wait for the paper to be returned. My classmates were practically in tears waiting for their papers. Our professor actually brought tissue and for the third time, he went over the dreaded law school curve, how legal writing is a learning process, how we aren't going to be in the top of our class anymore, etc. I couldn't believe this! Really?
There was so much stress in the room I couldn't take it. I'm one of those people who inadvertently takes on other people's stress and just sitting there was making me ill. The one thing I was happy about was that I was ok about getting a bad grade. Law school is a learning process and I was prepared to maturely accept my grade. And I did just that.
Grades can be a very humbling experience. I just wish my fellow classmates would realize this rather than getting upset. Oh! But we did have that one person who gloated about their grade!
And yesterday, this same person "worked" on her paper before class, so her paper just sat there for the whole world to see. Really? I felt like asking her if she was planning on announcing her other grades as well. In some ways I'm surprised by her ego, however in other ways I'm really not surprised. In many ways I think she is our class gunner, as best defined by the urban dictionary of course!
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So it's stress free I guess...
...they also don't tell us our ranks either.
Oh, and the CivPro Shuffle sounds like a hot mess. lol
Grades are very humbling at first in law school, but in time everything sorts itself out. The person who gloated will be put in their place, maybe not in legal writing, but eventually they too will be shown that they are not perfect all the time.
Good luck the rest of the semester! You definitely already have a leg up on the rest of your class mates by realizing that Grades aren't necessarily everything :)
But seriously, it's tough work NOT thinking about grades!
And I guess, in some ways they're both right. After doing recruiting this fall, it's definitely clear that the folks with the top grades got offers - and fast. But the rest of us will do alright too and eventually it won't matter. We'll just be doing our jobs.
We just handed in our first graded assignment, or the draft of it actually (although that's graded too), and got an email today telling us that he's not handing them back until the first week of NOVEMBER! Talk about extending the anticipation!