waiting for grades

I am still waiting for grades.  I have started the Spring semester without all of my grades.  The two grades that were posted, had me where I thought I would be - but in all honesty I was hoping for slightly higher grades.  I found out my grades while I was on vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands - I decided before I saw my grades that if I had failed out of law school I would be crashing on my friends couch while I looked for a job down there.  I am back here in North Carolina sitting in class talking about the Federal Rules of Evidence and unfair prejudice.  BUT, I am still waiting for one grade to come in.  I am hoping I stay in law school, because let's be honest who want to flunk out of law school?  Not I.  Yet, a the same time I am wishing I was back on a sunny warm beach, with a happy disposition.  While I wait for my last grade to get posted I am sitting in class, enjoying that I am here but missing being on the beach.  I am enjoying law school but not the stress it brings into my life.
I am no longer regretting starting law school - I have not found my balance, but I am hoping I am getting closer to it.  I think more trips to the beach are in my future - and a reunion with the USVIs immediately after I take the NC bar exam if not sooner.

Still here

Two of my classes for last semester posted the grades.  I am still in law school, which is good.  I checked my grades while on vacation in St. Thomas and realized I had to come back from paradise because I am still in law school.  That is a good thing, but it was sad to leave St. Thomas.  I missed the first night of classes due to this much needed vacation.  Now I am mentally preparing myself to get back into the swing of things both with working and then going to class.  I am hoping that this semester goes as well if not better than last semester so that I can stay in law school.  Maybe when I am done I will see about starting a practice in the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Still waiting for my third class posts grades - I figure if all else fails I am going to find a job in St. Thomas and spend my life in sunshine, salty air, and paradise.

life estate

You can have a life estate based on a person that doesn't know about it and that is not involved in the deal.  My professor then explained that she wouldn't pick a certain celebrity who has been arrested repeatedly for drugs and alcohol related events.  She claimed not to want bad luck on the person, but that she is doing a pretty good job of bad luck on her own.  Then my professor said if you don't wan the person to have a long life estate you might actually want to do a life estate based on this actress.
Only in law school would this bring a round of laughter.

Advice on Finals

from my professors:
At 9pm there are bars all over (enter your location here) that are waiting to accommodate you.  You should finish your final and go visit them.

There are 10 questions because it is easy to count them.

Just don't drive after you have imbibed.

Some career advice from one of my professors

*Don't put yourself in a position where you will need bail.

*If you want have an impact on the court system become a prosecutor.

*Don't let people know where you live.

who says that?

My Property professor loves to say "maybe he likes the cut of her jib?"  who says that anymore?
She has been saying that since we started life-estates.  Property law has made me realize I don't want to practice law in Massachusetts, Delaware, Maine, and Rhode Island because of their wacky property laws.  I have decided California law is just too weird for me to want to practice there.  Out of the 50 states I might be able to practice in I have now ruled out 10% of them.  I should just stick to where I am learning law, but being realistic I think with double majoring it might be a real possibility to end up practicing in another state.  This is clearly something I need to keep in mind, however I will do everything in my power to not practice in the five states listed above
Any advice out there?

Putting it in perspective

My Criminal Procedure's Professor on the Panthers loosing a football game.
Just think about it this way they made as much for playing last night than many of you make all year.

One of my classmates:
They made way more than that last night.

There is the perspective for why to stick it out in law school.  I'll never make as much as the NFL players but maybe my yearly salary will at least be equal to one of their game paychecks.