Let's Get Ready For Finals
For most law students, finals start this week. For the class of 2014 1Ls, it’s their first finals period.
Good luck to all.
I had a very strict, almost superstitious, regimen to get myself in the mood to take a series of eight hour exams for 100% of my grade. Before finals period, I would watch the fight at the end of the first Rocky. Because the point of finals period isn’t necessarily to win, it’s to go the distance.
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My motto was always, “you can learn a lot in eight hours.” My school generally had eight hour take-home exams for 100% of your grade.
The students at Rutgers Law about to encounter their first finals period have a different sort of motto. It’s a very good one….
On the day of any exam, I would get my ass to McDonald’s for two bacon, egg & cheese biscuits and two hash browns. I’d happily stroll into the exam pick-up room with my food, sipping coffee, giving off this vibe of “this is going to be easy.” Everybody has a mind game to play when you’re graded on a curve.
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Then I’d go home and play a Rocky playlist while I read the questions and organized my notes and thoughts for at least a half hour before I started writing.
Ah, good times. I was so good at school. It’s the real world that is so very crappy.
This video was made by some Rutgers Law students. It’s a younger generation. These kids, it’s like they don’t know that finals are a damn show; they think finals are a damn fight.
A fight, for survival:
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I don’t hear no fat lady!
Good luck Rutgers and all law students. Make it happen.