I started to get my materials ready for a job fair recently. Most of the law firms requested undergrad transcripts. As a result, I pulled mine up to see what I could do to get it into workable shape. With all grades in for this semester (I still have a 0-unit incomplete and 1 unit of credit/no credit credit yet to arrive) I noticed an interesting contrast. Two semesters away from graduating from undergrad, I hit rock bottom and had my worst semester. Two semesters away from graduating from law school, I had my best semester.

From the fall of 1993 (I took the spring of 1994 -- my originally planned graduating semester -- off to reassess):

Yes, it is true. I failed Management Information Systems. How ironic.

Meanwhile, in the spring of 2007, things were decidedly better.

I've often written that grades aren't all-important to me, though they've obviously been meaningful enough that I have my tracking spreadsheet and stuff. However, I can't deny feeling a certain amount of redemption when I have a good semester. I've had one or two others I considered particularly good in law school. And to be fair, after my time off, I did a little better in my last year of undergrad:

Straight-As this semester sure would have been nice. I haven't had straight-As on a report card since high school. As Maxwell Smart would say: "Missed by that much."