There is a really fucked up relationship between the amount of effort you put into school and the grades you get. The less I try, the less I care and the more distracted I am, the better my grades are.
Even though I took 17 units and was pregnant, last fall was my best semester grades-wise thus far. Fall of 2007 I got married and did OCI (which completely took away any motivation to do well) and I got good grades then too.
It's not that I always do well, because I don't. Last spring I had nothing else to do besides school and I think I did a lot of work (compared to my other semesters), but my grades were kind of terrible.
I'm hoping this rule applies with equal force this semester since I really couldn't care less about school and haven't been reading or paying attention in class. I've been telling myself it doesn't matter how I do now because I have a job lined up, but with the economy in the shitter I should probably at least acknowledge the possibility that a job offer could be rescinded. Maybe next week, I'm too tired to deal with that kind of depressing prospect now.
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Something else might be causing the paradox that you've noticed.
Specifically, in the second and third years, the rigor in grading evaporates.
That's the annoying part about law school (mine at least)... we're graded on a strict curve. The forced median does go up by a little bit after first year, but that doesn't account for moving up in class rank since everyone else's median went up as well. I do think you're right in that once you learn how to "do" law school, it requires a lot less effort to maintain status quo.
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