Law school ended, not with a bang, but with an eight hour take-home exam finished yesterday around 3PM. I spent my final minutes officially in "law school" writing about due process, which I suppose is fitting. At some points during the exam it was difficult to keep going- not because the subject was difficult or because I didn't want to end my law school experience- but because I was taking the class pass/fail and and I kept thinking "well I've certainly PASSED by now."
So that's that. That was a fast three years. I'm sure it will seem like an equally long amount of time between now and my bar exam. My bar exam prep company helpfully emailed me just minutes after I had finished my final exam to let me know that "directed self-study mode" was now active. Super.
This week is all a wind-down. Lots of potlucks and dinners and receptions and exit-counseling and such. Next Friday I will be commissioning as a Navy JAG (though I won't actually go to officer school until November because of how the bar result release schedule works). I'm really looking forward to that, because I still don't feel like that whole thing is real and perhaps actually commissioning will help. I didn't know that this would be an option, but apparently active officer OR any officer in any branch of service who has retired with more than 20 years of service is able to commission me, and so I'm very excited that Papa Buck has agreed to give me the oath.
I imagine that at some point, perhaps after I finish the bar, which most certainly qualifies as being part of the buzz saw, I will start a new blog and consider this one completed.
All in all, law school- not that hard in retrospect and without any prospect of having to do it again.
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