I was nursing a hangover today and was what I thought was, "not fully prepared," for a Civil Procedure class, when I was "randomly" called on first. What being called on first means is that the professor has chosen you as the candidate that he will attempt to slowly, intellectually rape for the next 75 minutes. This particular course is taught by one of the notoriously cruelest professors at my school, in by far my weakest subject. Despite all of this, I must have channeled AP or something because I fucking killed it. I had maybe two total missteps (not disasters, just not exactly the answer he was looking for) with the hypotheticals, of which there were roughly 5; each of which having 2-3 questions. That percentage might not sound incredible enough to be bragging about but I assure you that it is. I aced all of the straight forward material (issue, rule, analysis, etc.). The hypos are complicated as shit and more often than not, have no real correct answer. You have around 10-15 seconds to attempt to formulate an argument to an issue that the Supreme Court has been unable to answer for over a hundred years. While attempting this, you also have 65 people staring at you who just can't fucking wait for your demise. If you can accomplish this while not looking like a retard during the process, you basically win. If you wreck it like a boss like I did, you're a god. (I might be exaggerating about the god stuff. I'm just a little excited about the near-guarantee that I won't have to go through this ordeal in this class again this semester).
Since AP is the only person still reading this thread, more details:
Shaffer v. Heitner (applying International Shoe to quasi in rem jurisdiction cases using intangible property as attachment).
tl;dr: Ironic Mustache got singled out in class all day and wrecked shit despite being hungover, slightly unprepared, and hating the class/professor with a passion.
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