Working Hard To Be Average*

My grades for spring '05 are in the comment section of this post. Now the law school custom is that one should never tell their fellow students what their grades are. One law school prep book puts it this way,

Never, never, never discuss your grades in public. Not even if people ask you about them.

Why?

Again, because nothing good can come of it. If you have better grades than the person asking, that person is going to be made to feel badly. If she has better grades than you do, you might be made to feel badly. And of course, all of this depends on whether you're both telling the truth.

Well I don't believe my grades are going to make many feel badly about their own - to those few who do, I'm sorry. And I don't need to hear about anyone else's grades to feel badly about my own. Of course if you have a problem with knowing what my grades are, no one is making you look in the comment section.

But why make my grades public? It's certainly not to gloat about my grades. I'm not looking for sympathy either. It's more I guess to be better understood than anything else. I don't know how much grades can reveal about a person but those who recruit new lawyers seem to think they're important.

Thanks to those who congratulated me on getting off of AP though I feel a bit dopey for accepting them for the grades I earned but thanks is still in order. So thank you all.

*Alternative title: Still In Search Of "It"