I had a law school nightmare last night. Yes, four months after graduation.
In the dream, in my 3L spring, I a signed up to take a two credit class, but I had apparently taken the same class in 2L spring, and neither I nor the registration program noticed. A few weeks into the semester, I apparently realized I had take the class before and tried to add/drop but couldn't because it was too late, and of course without the two credits I could not graduate. I spent the rest of the dream chasing the dean around increasingly silly and complicated mazes trying to get him to sign a waiver or something.
It was really bizarre.
I'm sorry to say that my dad, who has been out of law school for twenty years, says that every now and then he still has a law school nightmare. . .
ReplyDeleteI had nightmares about this after undergrad for a good year after graduation, but none from law school (I think it was because I used credits from 4 different schools to get my undergrad degree and kept thinking they would change their mind about giving me credit). I told a law school friend of mine about this and it turns out she really didn't graduate from undergrad - she found out in the law school application process and had to go back and finish some paperwork!
ReplyDeleteI had a really bizarre dream last night with a similar theme -- not being able to graduate law school. The really weird thing about it was it didn't involve law school classes. Apparently somewhere along the way it was discovered that due to a clerical error, I was a credit short of graduating high school, so I had to go back and take this choir class so that I would get my high school diploma and then all my other degrees would be validated. And I was late for class, and afraid they would count me absent and I wouldn't get credit for the class. Really frickin' weird!
ReplyDeleteWeird! Like the whole ordeal wasn't awful enough now you have PTSD nightmares of lawschool! I haven't had crazy lawschool dreams so far (knock on wood) I guess you are having enough for the both of us!
ReplyDeleteI used to have this nightmare that I would graduate from law school without a job and spend the whole summer looking for one....
ReplyDeleteOh wait, that actually happened!
Hilarious. Sounds like some deep-seated anxiety.
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