Maybe it was all a Dream

Mentioning the 'L word' (i.e. law school) in my last entry made me realize that it's been over a month since I've been law school free.

Yesterday while filling out a job application I had to put down my LSAT and SAT scores. First of all this was strange because why does an employer want these scores? Yet it was also strange because I could not remember the scale of the LSAT. My score was what out of what? I had no idea. I finally had to google it. 180... the LSAT is out of 180.

Also humorous, as I am typing this I received an e-mail from my ex-Property Professor. She posted the grade distribution for the class. I haven't checked any of my grades online. I don't think they're all up yet, but I'm not sure that I want to know. There's probably nothing to be gained by it. Of course, it would be funny if I did really well; since I knew in February that I was leaving, my effort dwindled as the semester progressed.

I'm also astonished at how much the class size dropped. 67 people took the final - I thought our class size started out at 85 or 88. I guess it was a steady stream of leaving throughout the year, and I was too shell-shocked to notice. I just can't stop staring at this:

Grade Distribution Fall Midterm Created: Mon, 1/23/2006 3:35 PM EST Edited: Mon, 1/23/2006 3:35 PM EST

2 Number of As 0 0% 3 Number of B+s 5 6% 4 Number of Bs 10.: 14% 5 Number of C+s 11.: 16% 6 Number of Cs (minimum Professional Competence) 25.: 34% 7 Below Professional Competence 22.: 30% 9 10 Total 76.: 100%

Grade Distribution Created: Thu, 6/15/2006 12:40 PM EDT

A B C E 5 Grade Number Percent 6 A 7 10% 7 B+ 5 7% 8 B 9 13% 9 C+ 20 30% 10 C (minimum Professional Competence) 19 28% 11 D+ 6 9% 12 D 0 0% 13 F 1 1% 14 67

Seeing this chart and seeing grades are the only things that make me feel like any of it was real. Sitting here in the sunny south makes it seem like a dream. A largely painful and debilitating dream, but also formative.