Dean's List!

Today after criminal law, my buddy & savior Mr. Butler congratulated me. I asked why, and he told me that I made the Dean's List! Hooray!

Congratulations to some other folks I know - Mr. Butler, Mr. Glaser, Mr. Hamilton (of the Hamilton Thesis), Mr. Kraus (seat 22!), Mr. McCart (a.k.a. Mantooth), Miss Moore, Miss Pedersen, Mr. Scheive, Mr. Schildt, Mr. Schuster ("fairness!!"), and Mr. Stern!

(Pardon the last names, but that really is how we refer to each other in law school. I am and will always be "Miss Sherman!" I guess I'm sorta Mrs. Musser, too...)

I knew my grades were good, and apparently they were good enough to place me in the top 24% (Dean's List) of a very smart, very gifted group of people. I have raved about my classmates and professors before, and I just cannot rave enough. Everyone is just so universally kind, intelligent, and hilarious.

On the flip-side, I am glad that I studied my own way this semester instead of worrying about what everyone else was doing. I was talking to a close friend of mine at school, and we pretty much agreed that we felt vindicated that our hard work was enough to get us good grades.

If you're not in law school, you can't understand the pressure that is put on students to buy study guides, commercial outlines, canned case briefs, etc. You start to feel that if you don't pay $70 to get pre-made outlines from a legal fraternity, or that if you don't spend 8 hours of your pre-finals weekends at BAR/BRI study sessions, that you're missing out on something.

I think we all learned a lot about study habits, though, and we'll come around this semester with a whole new outlook. We know we can survive finals again, and now we know what to expect, because we survived it once already.

(At least most of us did - we are all mourning the loss of a certain Pellegrino-loving classmate of ours. Sort of.)