Second Semester - Six Weeks In
Around this time first semester, I made a post about how I was doing. That seemed to work pretty well so in my second semester, I'm doing this again.
After getting all my grades back, I didn't do as well as I had hoped. Of course, it is apparent that most people didn't do as well as they hoped. The problem with going to professional school in general (i.e. medical school, law school, etc.), let alone a pretty good one, is that everyone who comes in will have gotten pretty good grades as an undergrad so now that everyone who had straight A's in college are being ranked on a full bell curve from A to failing, it's quite nerve-racking. Since I have never been a straight A student, I'm finding the situation a bit worse.
But hey, I passed everything and that's an OK starting point. I spoke with each of my professors from last semester to figure out how I can do better and each time I heard the same phrase: "It was obvious you knew the material but you just weren't able to present it well." While it was nice to know that it was clear I'm not an idiot, it was still disheartening from the perspective that it's not an easy fix. I can't just spend a few extra hours making sure I know the material. I have to completely change how I write for law school.
I didn't really take the news well. For a few weeks, I was pretty much a mess. I was still going to school and doing all my work but my heart just wasn't in it anymore. Of course, it was still better than how I was when I first learned of my grades, which was a display badly concealed panic on my part but I overcame that and slowly but surely I overcame being despondent as well.
My classmates didn't really know how to take this. I went from being silly, happy-go-lucky person to being a depressed person so they tried their best to cheer me up. They did enjoy my own efforts to improve my mood, because I started baking in large quantities and my classmates all love my baked goods. Of course, my roommate wasn't happy about the increase in our food bill to pay for all my baking supplies since he can't enjoy them (he can't eat anything that contains flour) and some of my classmates are complaining about weight gain so I'm cutting back on my baking but since I am feeling better, I don't really need to do it to cheer myself up anymore anyway.
Besides all that, the only other thing in my life is that a few weeks ago, all my electronics decided to rebel. My DVR wiped all of it's recorded programs, my router stopped sending out a wireless signal reliably and my iPod died. Of course, that all worked itself out because all the stuff on the DVR were things I was probably never going to watch anyway since anything unwatched had been sitting there for awhile, I was able to get a new, much faster router at a low price and I was able to order a new iPod cheaply on Amazon with a gift card that I won in a Lexis-Nexis contest.
So, once more, I continue to persevere and will hopefully overcome my writing issues. So, basically, my usual status quo.
After getting all my grades back, I didn't do as well as I had hoped. Of course, it is apparent that most people didn't do as well as they hoped. The problem with going to professional school in general (i.e. medical school, law school, etc.), let alone a pretty good one, is that everyone who comes in will have gotten pretty good grades as an undergrad so now that everyone who had straight A's in college are being ranked on a full bell curve from A to failing, it's quite nerve-racking. Since I have never been a straight A student, I'm finding the situation a bit worse.
But hey, I passed everything and that's an OK starting point. I spoke with each of my professors from last semester to figure out how I can do better and each time I heard the same phrase: "It was obvious you knew the material but you just weren't able to present it well." While it was nice to know that it was clear I'm not an idiot, it was still disheartening from the perspective that it's not an easy fix. I can't just spend a few extra hours making sure I know the material. I have to completely change how I write for law school.
I didn't really take the news well. For a few weeks, I was pretty much a mess. I was still going to school and doing all my work but my heart just wasn't in it anymore. Of course, it was still better than how I was when I first learned of my grades, which was a display badly concealed panic on my part but I overcame that and slowly but surely I overcame being despondent as well.
My classmates didn't really know how to take this. I went from being silly, happy-go-lucky person to being a depressed person so they tried their best to cheer me up. They did enjoy my own efforts to improve my mood, because I started baking in large quantities and my classmates all love my baked goods. Of course, my roommate wasn't happy about the increase in our food bill to pay for all my baking supplies since he can't enjoy them (he can't eat anything that contains flour) and some of my classmates are complaining about weight gain so I'm cutting back on my baking but since I am feeling better, I don't really need to do it to cheer myself up anymore anyway.
Besides all that, the only other thing in my life is that a few weeks ago, all my electronics decided to rebel. My DVR wiped all of it's recorded programs, my router stopped sending out a wireless signal reliably and my iPod died. Of course, that all worked itself out because all the stuff on the DVR were things I was probably never going to watch anyway since anything unwatched had been sitting there for awhile, I was able to get a new, much faster router at a low price and I was able to order a new iPod cheaply on Amazon with a gift card that I won in a Lexis-Nexis contest.
So, once more, I continue to persevere and will hopefully overcome my writing issues. So, basically, my usual status quo.