I’ve had a variation on pretty much this exact dream regularly since graduating almost two years ago:Â The same horror on the Couch Hall porch at realizing I’d totally forgotten to attend a class I’d signed up for, PANIC DAMN DAMN HOW’D I DO THAT I’m GONNA FAIL, sinking sense that I was actually done with school, CONFUSION…. waking up glad I’m done with school.
I wonder if I’ll have nightmares about missing Saturday Staff Meetings if I ever make it to law school.
via xkcd.
holy shit! i’ve been having this dream lately, too, but only just in the last month or so. weird! i bet it has a lot to do with the weather being so nice and not being in class. i know that ever since i was able to (tenth grade or so?), i skipped a lot more often in the spring – maybe the guilt/worry has become ingrained with our natural biorhythms or some shit.
also, relevant onion article:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/year_of_law_school_now
Hmm, I had a similar dream about a month ago, but in mine I had chosen to re-enter high school and was doing a terrible job, both socially and academically. Everyone out there — don’t try going back to high school, no matter how tempting it sounds! It’s nothing like “Billy Madison”.
i have these dreams too sometimes, but not lately.
@Barry: Damn, I’m behind schedule. How discouraging.
@Benji, I think I smell a SCREENPLAAAAY!
@Alex, you don’t be because you are currently in school. For comic artist, you sure missed that point of this strip. And a really great school too. I bet you’ll have commensurately terrible nightmares about it later.
Apparently they don’t make them talk as much at Duke; I’m not sure about the pressure, but I find myself developing a tick in my left eye. I guess they figure that if you can get in, they’re probably studying hard enough to begin with.
I have dreams like this still, where I’ve procrastinated to such an extent that it’s nearing hopelessness to study– and then I make it come true (not even meaning to). The great thing is that you practically have to try to fail to fail out of law school. However, you do have to work very hard to make exceptional grades– I think it’s a nice balance.
yeah, i got the point. and it’s true, that nightmare has become a reality for me. there is a class this semester that i haven’t been to in weeks and weeks. however, i did the same thing with one last semester and did way better in it than in the others. so maybe i won’t have nightmares about this after all.
jake, they do to stress us out here. and sometimes we have to talk.
also, related to both of these things, right now i am writing this instead of preparing for an oral argument that i have in twenty minutes. i’ve barely done any real prep at all, but i have done pretend prep which is fine because its in front of pretend judges who will be asking pretend questions.
Man, you two are seriously buttressing my thinking about waiting another year for law school. I don’t feel like I’m hungry, and you make it sound like quite a dish.
It probably would’ve been too late anyway, unless you’ve already taken the LSAT and registered with LSDAS.
Yep, done both!
Have you applied or did you decide to wait?