Man, when I went to university the first time, I never looked up what my grades were. I found out by happenstance the next semester when I was looking up which classrooms I needed to go to when. I showed up to class, did some of the homework, took the test, and just did relatively well. 'Course that bit me in the butt later in life when I needed to be versed in electrical engineering theory and had to re-teach myself circuits and physics II to do my job. Final grades from the law school professors are due tonight and I know one test I really screwed up, because it was my first open book test and I didn't manage time well enough. That's the class that's about a third of my overall GPA. I am NERVOUS. 🥶 In law school you have ONE grade. The entire semester. For each class. And it's the final--a four hour test. So if you screw that up, say sayonara to your scholarship.

Today is a "God is good" kind of a day. Completely by chance, I rode down the elevator at work with the manager of a guy that I know is in his last semester of law school, at the same school. I know that guy is in law school, not because I've ever met him, but because I talk to the guy who sits in the cubicle next to him about his garlic and pepper garden. I chatted up the manager about it, and just so happened to find out my employer has an exemption in their office work policy for students being able to work virtually. I was going to have to quit my engineering job to finish law school, but now I know there's a policy exemption I can look up and use to keep my job. Because the law school was terrible and wouldn't let me switch a class to allow me to continue working. (I dropped to 20 hours and did most of them in office Thursday/Friday because my schedule allowed it.)

I was really surprised, I did not remember a MONTH gap between the semesters in university. Between when the finals ended and when school started again. My last semester gap like this was ten years ago though, so maybe I just forgot. But it was good because I was able to go back to working full time, get some documents released, get in-person time with my team, get some projects wound down and started, and pay off the holiday season with the extra money. I do think it's pretty funny that the professors really preach hard on doing things in a timely, well organized fashion, and half of them haven't published grades yet at 8PM the night it's due.