It'll Take a Lifetime of Therapy to Get Over This

I won’t re-hash the entire experience – it’s just too painful – but here are few bullet points:

*Approximately 6,000 candidates took the Bar exam at my location (the most of any location in the country).

*Each of the candidates is a graduate of an accredited law school. The vast majority of them are very bright and work extremely hard. Yet over 40% of the candidates at my location will fail.

*Janitorial staff were on hand at the bathrooms to clean up the "messes" (and I saw many people vomiting due to the stress).

*Wife waited in line with me before each day of the exam. The sights she saw shocked her: several “pukers,” a couple nervous breakdowns, a bunch of hysterical criers, and hundreds of drug bottles.

* Over the last several days, a surprising number of people found this blog by googling, "Flunked the New York Bar Exam." Does Google know something I don't?

I doubt I will discuss the exam again until the results are announced in about four months. If I comment on it, I passed. If I make no reference to the bar, just expect to learn I’m retaking it again in February.