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Had one about the Bar Exam where they put Linear Algebra on it and I was the only one who didn't know about it ahead of time.

Even though i have not been in high school or college for years, every once in awhile I dream I am suddenly back in school. the frustrating part is I am confused about it. I cannot understand why I am there yet i am being told to get to class and oh there's a test. "a test? what test? i am not supposed to be here!"I do not know where my class is and i am wandering around trying to figure out what to do.

I've taken more than my share of these and I never dreamed about any of them. . .I approached them with a military attitude of 'win the battle before it's ever fought' and over-prepared. . .

I remember this like it was yesterday. It was my second year of Law School, which is intense. It is the year that they pile a crapload of work upon you. In Law School you are commonly tested once - a 3 or 4 hour exam at the end of the semester. You're feeling ill or having a bad day? Too bad. Skate or die. Normally, the exam period works in the fashion that a student has an exam, an off day, and then another exam. My schedule was such that I had 3 back to back and then an off day before the last one. The course I was (most) worried about was Products Liability. It was the last of the the 3 consecutive exams. It's not that I didn't have a reasonable understanding of the subject. It was that I knew that the other students did and that competition for the limited number of A's and B's would be intense. I was also aware that the other students would get more last minute studying done because the large majority of them would have at least one empty day before the test. Well, I took the exam and then went back to my apartment to begin studying for the next test. When I went to sleep that night I had a dream which was the following: I took the Products Liability exam over in my head, question by question. Except this time, I gave different answers to the questions I had felt uncomfortable with. I recall specifically when I woke up, too. It was just after I finished the eighth page of the test.

When I was in second year University I broke my leg and had difficulty getting from class to class, especially a Math course that was on the far side of campus. As a result I missed a lot of those classes and fell far behind. I told myself I would get the notes, study the text and keep up, but it didn't happen. I knew I was going to bomb the exam. I eventually dropped the course, on the Voluntary Withdrawl deadline date. But to this day, when I am falling behind at work, or when life is getting hectic and things are piling up I have my "Business Math B" dream and wake up in a cold sweat thinking I need to get up and hit the books. The course was in 1981, and I had the dream a couple of weeks ago.