It's Over Now!

I had my last final today: Property. I wrote one of those detail-light essays that will either help me or hurt me, depending on my level of accuracy. It was a closed book test. Hopefully that will work to my advantage when it comes to the grading curve.

"Damn Austin, why are you such a grade grubber" you might query. Well, let me tell you why. There are a few things I'd like to do in law school. First and foremost, I'd like to particpate in a law journal. TU has three; the two I'm interested in are The Tulsa Law Review and The Journal of International and Comparative Law. You can be invited to join with a GPA of 3.2 or better; if you have a GPA of 2.5 or better, you can write on. They go by the first year average.

The second part of this pickle is my scholarship, which pays roughly two-thirds of my private school tuition. A 3.0 GPA is needed to keep this.

So, depending on how this semester goes, I can be on a journal and keep my scholarship, be on a journal, or simply stew resentfully in the lower half of my class. I don't feel all would be lost. I did really well in my legal writing class and will be TA to my writing prof next year. So that's something good to put on a transcript. The worst part of all this, though, is having to wait until June for my grades. It's not so bad until the first grade comes in and you're caught in a maelstrom as your GPA violently yo-yos with each revealed grade.

But I don't have to worry about that now. Tonight, and for the next week or so, I have fun.

BTW, George, if you're reading this, please give me a call.