September 2, 2006
Bar exam results coming soon ::
legal — tagged bar exam, bar study, legal, personal and rant
9:01 am
With September here and the Vermont Bar Exam results most likely being released in just a few weeks, I’ve been thinking more lately about that test (and of course more specifically, whether I passed it). With that, I thought this WSJ essay, written back in July and linked at the 2006 Bar Exam Blog is becoming relevant—and to certain degree kind of funny—once again:
Even putting aside the hours of enjoyment you can have packing your test-day clear plastic storage bag, preparing for the bar exam isn’t a heck of a lot of fun. Most people say the worst part is doing hundreds and hundreds of practice multiple choice questions, but I think the worst part is how doing those multiple choice questions makes you feel about the world. Nothing good ever happens to the people in practice bar exam questions. Everyone who crosses the street gets hit by a car, every doctor botches the surgery, parachutes never open, contracts never get fulfilled, anyone who uses a lawnmower ends up in the hospital, as soon as you write a will your whole family dies, employee benefit plans never pay out their benefits, computers all get viruses, your friends are always intoxicated, stealing your farm equipment, and driving it into the barn, police search you all the time for no good reason, you can never find a good place to hide your weapons, banks never recognize a signature as a forgery, and the forger always flees the country.
