I graduated law school last May. I took the bar and passed. I assumed hell was behind me but you know what they say about assuming.
The other night I had a vivid dream which is also a brand new recurring dream. I dreamt that I was in my last semester of law school. Unfortunately, I was having a bit of difficulty. You see, I forgot to go to classes for a couple of weeks. Yep, just forgot or blew them off altogether. Whichever it was, I was aware in my dream that my non-attendance was purely my fault and I had a sense of overwhelming guilt combined with embarrassment. It was unclear whether the professors would even allow me back in class. If allowed back in, I wasn’t sure if I could even pass the classes. I was faced with an outcome too horrible to contemplate…I wasn’t going to graduate law school.
I’m having this dream about once a week. I used to have the usual dreams of forgetting to write papers or missing exams. Those nightmares went away a few months back to be replaced by this Nightmare of Never Getting Out Of Law School.
To those who may arrive at this post by Googling the title of this post (and you are out there, I know it), I apologize for the grim forecast of life after law school. But I can assure you that law school does end…one way or another.
