I can't quite believe that it's over. All of the year... my endless studying, the hours of cases, all boiled down to five, two to three hour exams. It's a weird feeling. So much done... and yet over so fast. I'm still reeling. I'm still thinking about all the stupid mistakes I made... damn that future interests problem!

I haven't got my grades yet, so perhaps this is the best time to give me real opinions. First year law school is hard work. It's hard on the personal relationships in your life, it eats up every moment of your time, it's intensely challenging and yet oddly unstimulating in some ways. And by that I mean, sometimes there just isn't even time to THINK about everything that you're learning. It can be kind of ego-crushing too. I'll admit it, I'm used to doing okay in school even when I didn't work that hard. But this year I have worked as hard as I possibly could, and I haven't always done as well as I hoped.

But it's been a great year. A happy, challenging year. I've been elated and proud at times, and dismayed at times. But despite the roller coaster, this has been one of the greatest years of my life, in (VERY LARGE) part because of my wonderful boyfriend fiancé . He has put up with my hectic schedule, grinned through my terrible law jokes, and today when I came home, he had bleached the entire bathroom. He knows me well and he knows that truly made me happy (I swear... on the way home I was thinking how wonderful it would be if someone had just vacuumed...). I love cleanliness and the past two weeks of insanity have allows me to let this places fester into a cat-hair covered mess. It's all gone now thanks to you-know-who.

Law school is hard on relationships - it takes up all your time and destroys your (normal) sense of humour replacing it with a series of bad puns about "invitations to treat." But I survived, and we survived, and we thrived despite it all!

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