Today was the LAST final! Yay!
This last round was tough. Very intense, mentally. The Constitutional Law final was an 8-hour take home that used nearly every minute (on my birthday too, no less - what fun.) Property wasn't too bad (although maybe because I didn't realize what I didn't know?) but Civil Procedure on Tuesday required non-stop writing for three hours and the Contracts exam today for 3.5. There were no extra moments for contemplation. Knowledge needed to be queued up for easy dumping into properly analytic sentences, which may or may not have occurred.
Meanwhile my brain has been so seized up with studying and stress that now that it's over it almost doesn't know how to function in this vacuum where cases don't need to be read and notes need not be crammed and legal analysis doesn't need to be generated every second.
After today's test some friends and I went out for lunch and ice cream as an early celebration. Later there might be some celebration via inebriation... Actually, I don't really care to drink (and I have a feeling that after one I might be on the floor, since I feel like I might be on the floor so easily without one as well) but I think I'll go anyway since it's sort of the Last Day of School and I might not see a lot of people again for a long time. I used to like the last day of school when I was younger - it usually involved cupcakes and soda and extra recess. Not mental torture.
And actually I'm not completely done. After the exam we picked up our packets for the writing competition whose outcome will determine for which journal we can work for next year. I have about a week to get that done, and then I get on with my summer.