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This freaking exam lived up to each & every expectation & then some. So here's how the exam was broken down:

3 hrs & all essays:
Que 1: 55 points (90 minutes)
Que 2: 15 points (30 minutes)
Que 3: 15 points (30 minutes)
Que 4: 15 points (30 minutes)

For the most part, I always start with the shorter questions & then tackle the long ones last. The long essay questions are usually very convoluted & I always end up taking too much time on them. So today was no different. Started with the shorter essays. I thought they were semi-decent because I had a clue as to what was going on in all of them. However, I misread one question and ended up having to redo it which took about an extra 20 minutes. That meant I had about 70 minutes to tackle que 1. No biggie . . . that was until I read the essay. I read it & freaked out!!! I mean literally. Couldn't make head or tail of what was going on at all!!! It was divided into sub-parts, 1(a), (b), (c), & (d). Fact pattern for (a) was about 2 pages long. Fact pattern for (b) was about a paragraph long - it built up from (a)'s facts but you were only to consider (b)'s facts, & the same happened for (c) and (d). Now I had about 30 minutes left to answer these four subparts & nothing was clicking as to how to answer them. The moral of this story: hoping, wishing, & praying I don't fail!

Just in case you are wondering why I didn't drop this class: We have one week after classes start to drop a class. After that, you cannot withdraw unless you want an "F." So in the first week, there is no way to figure out how hard a class is going to be since it's only introductory material. They butter you up & then lay it on you. To top it all off, I have two papers to write before Fri before I'm done for the semester. Don't you just envy my life right now?!

On a lighter note, my judicial externship ended last week. On the last day, I turned in my final draft for the Judge to review, edit, & enter the judgment. So yesterday in the mail, I received my edited draft with this message from the Judge, "This was really, really, excellent!" It was a 21 page draft opinion & she had made only minimal edits to it before it was filed with the court. I was totally stoked. All that research & wading through mountains of evidence was no fun at all but it paid off. Too bad this class is graded pass/fail.