A core memory I have from law school finals:
My friend and I were at the bar afterwards doing exactly what you aren’t supposed to do


Rehashing our answers.

“What’d you say about that one with the teacher from Indiana?” I asked.

He went white.

He’d missed an entire essay.

Completed only 80% of the exam.

The feeling lasted about 3 minutes before he said “oh well, nothing I can do about it now” and we went back to our beers.

(I found out a few months later that he still got a better grade. A clue that employment law wasn’t for me.)

I have three pieces for advice for law students back from Thanksgiving and staring down finals:

1. Hang out with people smart enough to beat you on an exam they didn’t even finish.

2. Treat a finished exam like Fight Club: don’t talk about it.

3. Know that in 15 years (hell, five years) it won’t matter how you did on your 2L Employment Law exam.

Good luck.
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