Take a breath, look around, swallow your pride, for now...

This morning I finished my last final for the first semester of law school Now I have a little bit of a break, before the new term starts January 5. And all I find myself doing is worrying about what I'll do if I fail out of law school. Finals were hard, and scary. I don't think I went into the same kind of depth as a lot of people did. I couldn't write to time on all but one of my four finals. And I tanked the Open Memo assignment for Legal Writing. It's pass/fail, so I think I probably passed, but I got 35 out of a possible 52. I earned 44 points for substance, then lost five because I put either one extra space or missed one space in every jump cite (I haven't figured out which it was yet, but he did indeed mark the same mistake ten times.) I lost another five for typos, less than half of which I understand. I think he didn't like something with my formatting, but I'm not sure. In any case, it sucked. In retrospect, I should've spent a lot less time actually researching and thinking about the memo, and a lot more time looking at my Bluebook and trying to figure out what the hottest styles in punctuation are this fall from Harvard Law.

In any case, since I did all my assignments and participated in class, I like to think I'll pass Legal Writing. But if I don't do a lot better on my substantive law finals, I'm screwed. I will be happy with Bs. I don't need As. But anything less, and I just don't think I'm cut out for the whole legal profession. Just because you like something doesn't mean you're any good at it. Hell, I love to sing, so, yeah. Anyway, I've been trying to think what I'll do if I fail out of law school. I mean, I'm 23, still got lots of life ahead of me, it's not too late to turn it all around if this doesn't work. What do you guys think?

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If anyone has any better ideas, I'm wide open. I'm just looking for some options, y'know, for the worst case scenario. It can't hurt, right?