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At the time it was petrifying. Now, I look back and it is pretty funny. After she threw them on the ground she went on to tell us every single one of us needed to make an appointment to meet with her. I of course thought I was going to fail out of school, then at the meeting she just basically said, "oh I'm not worried about you. You're doing fine." I'm guessing she threw exams every year as a tactic to fire us up again. The ones she tossed were second semester midterms. We pretty much realized that 10% of our final grade was not really worth studying for. I think that she did this routine to make sure we stayed on track for the final. However, since the first day of class where she wrote our names on an index card and then shuffled them each time she called on someone I pretty much lived in a perpetual state of fear. This helped my grade tremendously. It was quite the dramatic class, but I guess a show called How to Get Away With Bending the FRCP in Your Favor is not quite as sexy.

Oh man I find arrogance is just common in general when it comes to a lot of attorneys. Starting in law school this became comically apparent. When my civ pro professor dramatically through our exams on the floor and went on a spiel about how awful they were, one student raised his hand and asked, "are even the good ones bad?" As if he was so sure he had one of the top grades. In practice I continue to be shocked by people who are just unaware that they might just be wrong on some point of law.