Bar Exam Videos

As part of my bar exam coverage, I present YouTube videos that deal with the bar exam:

This one is called, "People Who Failed." It gives me some hope that if I failed I might not become instantly homeless and unemployable. Can you believe that guy who took it 41 times?



Here, a young woman is apparently overcome by the hours she has spent studying and sings, "It Seems Like A Mighty Long Time" to her review books.



This video might only be funny to people who have listened or gone to a bar review lecture. It is pretty classic, though.

The Bar Exam

As I try to sort out my feelings in the aftermath of the bar exam, I am pleased to have a glimpse into similar struggles endured by perfect strangers on the internet. Here is what a few of them said:

In an expression of perfect anti-climax that most nearly expresses what I feel, one poster writes, "I don't feel any sense of relief that the bar exam is over; more a creeping dread of what October, and the published results, will bring." I couldn't agree more. I kept thinking to myself, "I just have to get to July 24th, and then I won't ever have to open my bar books again. Won't that be great." It's not that great. In fact, I'm kind of cranky. Also, I'm avoiding telling anyone when to expect the results so I won't have to tell too many people that I'm a failure if I didn't pass.

A professor whose memories of the bar seem to have gotten rosier with the years writes, "I remember thinking as I walked out — 'I may not have to take another test ever again. Unless they make me take a driver’s test again when I’m 70.' Strangely, it did not occur to me that had I failed this would not be true, even though I had no strong sense of how well or badly I had done, other than I had felt prepared for the questions." I'm sure that professor actually left the exam room, went straight to the bathroom and threw up on his shoes because he was sure that he had failed. Forty years later, all he can remember is that he thought, "I'll never have to take another test again." Don't believe it.

This blogger's observation is more typical. "I felt like I had been through some sort of disaster. Part of me wanted to go home, crawl under my covers and just cry. The other part wanted to be around people in order to share our collective grief. Fortunately, I am great multi-tasker and managed to do both at the same time!"

My final blog quote comes from a very zen website that has the scary ability to put the funk that I felt after the exam into words. "The Bar Exam is no monster that thrives on corpses of failed students. It's no mirror reflecting your worst fears back on you. It's there, and it's not. It's you. Only you. You give it meaning. You make it the monster. You turn it into the mirror."

At this point, all I can think is, "So, now what?" The answer is, "You have to wait 2-3 months in agony to see if you passed the biggest test of your life." Of course, if I failed I'm fired. So that is a comforting thought for the next few months. Check back with me in October.