TDot: 1, ConLaw: 0
Despite going to bed early, I never made it to the 8am ConLaw review 
My BlackBerry doubles as my alarm clock, and I’ve got this habit of taking it after it goes off and then resetting the alarm for 10-15 minutes later.1 The problem Wednesday morning was that I apparently grabbed the phone, opened the app, started to change the time…
… and fell asleep with the phone in my hand before I actually finished setting the alarm 
I rolled over and noticed the time at 7:45am, faced with the dilemma of either (i) jumping out of bed, skipping breakfast and a shower, throwing on sweats and racing to a review session I would sit through while half-asleep, or (ii) getting up at my leisure, enjoying a hot shower followed by a hot breakfast, dressing like something other than a ragamuffin, and just make up the missed review by studying my butt off for the ensuing 24ish hours.
So I picked Option #2 
The tradeoff for frenetically studying yesterday and today is that my already-late research memo for Legal Letters will be getting turned in even further after deadline, giving me a -0- on that assignment and all but ensuring the best I can do in that class is now a C+. But given how thoroughly I (hopefully) dominated this midterm, I figure doing well in 4-credit ConLaw is slightly more important than 2-credit Legal Letters.
The 80-minute exam was comprised of 40 multiple choice questions, basically covering the first 3 chapters of Chemerinsky’s Constitutional Law textbook. Questions ranged from gimmes2 to real puzzlers,3 along with a few esoteric ones that folks either studied or didn’t.4
After the extensive study marathon, I blazed through the exam in about 30 minutes — earning a raised eyebrow from Madame Prosecutor and at least one 1L-worthy glare from another. But I knew what I knew and knew what I didn’t, so there wasn’t much point in overanalyzing
We’ll see how it shakes out, and hope I can keep it up through finals 
Hoping for: A
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From the grade-related archives:
- Post-1L Class Ranks (Detailed): Revisiting class rank
- Post-1L Class Ranks: Learning what I already knew
- Spring ’10 Finals: Spring ’10 Final Grades (or, “A 2L. For srs.”)
- Spring ’10 Finals Expectations: The wait continues…
- Spring ’10 Midterms: Spring ’10 Midterm Grades (or, “@#$% Ks”)
- Spring ’10 Midterm Expectations: A Temporary Reprieve
- Fall ’09 Finals: Fall ’09 Grades: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugh-ly
- Fall ’09 Midterms: Midterm postmortem
- Since if I just press the snooze button, I’m inclined to do so repeatedly for over an hour [↩]
- “How many amendments were in effect when the Constitution was enacted?” (Zero) [↩]
- Four similar hypothetical lawsuits and figuring out which one wasn’t deficient with respect to SCOTUS standing requirements. [↩]
- “What was Justice Black’s opinion on the Executive’s inherent authority in the [7-opinion] Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer decision?” (There is none.) [↩]
