Two of my grades came in very early in the process, Contracts and Legal Writing. I *knew* that I bombed it, though none of my fellow students I spoke to really seemed to want to believe me. Now I've got the proof, with a grade I plan never to see again during my law school career.

Fortunately, Legal Writing came through for me, much to my surprise. I had some printing issues at the last minute, which is to say, I forgot a key format requirement on the paper, my professor's name, an omission that occurred to me en route to turn the paper in.

Now, papers could only be turned in during a 1-hour window, and I've often not bothered to be there early in the window. In fact, had I remembered the omission after turning it in, well, that would have just been too bad. However, I've not yet bested the print servers at the law school's library; that is, I've not yet figured out how to print from my Mac. So, I emailed the Word for Mac document to my school account and opened it in Word for Windows and printed. And guess what? The lines no longer matched the line numbers on the pleading paper we're required to use. I spent the next 20 minutes or so going through each line of the paper, seeing if they were aligned, and if not, tweaking the line spacing by as little as a fixed point. With about 10 minutes left, I printed again, did a quick once-over, stapled it, and ran off to turn it in. I've been fearing ever since that I must've had tons of format violations, which are the largest deductions there are. Fortunately, I must not have.

Civ Pro came in today, too. I was concerned; there were two multiple choice questions about the "Romero exception", and during the exam, I could not figure out how to apply the exception to the facts at-hand. Instead, my understanding of the point of the question would come the next day. I felt I probably did a good job on the primary part of the exam, which was a purposeful availment analysis, as a subset of a full minimum contacts and/or personal jurisdiction analysis. Effectively, we were saved from an "arising out of" analysis and a test against the traditional methods of establishing personal jurisdiction. In the end, I apparently did do well on the rest of it. Perhaps I even guessed well at the "Romero" multiple choice questions that were nagging me.

One more grade, Torts, to go, and I'll find out how much my hideously embarassing Contracts grade will pull me down.