One Bar Down

The Bar exam is behind me. Thank you to everyone who sent cards, emails, calls, etc. or a congratulatory message. Having the Bar behind me is quite a relief. The Bar is something that it seems like a law school graduate should pass – after three grueling years of law school plus all of the hundreds of agonizing hours preparing for the test, it would be nice to walk into the exam feeling confident. However, there are always people who fail. Some people fail because they didn’t study hard enough. Some people fail the bar because they just aren’t smart enough. Others fail the test because of bad luck. I really was afraid I could be in that last category, along with many extremely intelligent people who studied as hard as they could but still ended up with a failing score. The Bar exam covers an absolutely enormous body of knowledge (especially in the state where I took it). There is not a person in the world that could comprehend and memorize every potential issue, law, and exception that the Board of Law Examiners could put on the exam. I am very relieved that the arcane laws and exceptions to the laws that were on the exam were the same ones I had time to commit to memory.