Law Students Facing Final Exams Share Common Anxiety Dream with Others, Including Long-Ago Grads
For law students and others who may think that graduation will release them from a common form of anxiety, the Oregonian has bad news: Dream on.
Nightmares about failing an exam because you forgot about the test, didn’t study for it or forgot to attend the class are a common format for addressing worries of all kinds. And they often persist long past the time when an individual successfully completes all of his or her studies.
“I left law school more than 40 years ago, and I still have that dream and not infrequently, as recently as the last couple of months,” Paul Kelly tells the newspaper. He is president of the State Board of Higher Education.
In Kelly’s version of the dream, he says, “I realize the week before the exam that I’ve never gone to class. I have no idea what has been covered. I have to read the whole textbook.”
