7 posts tagged “study panic”

A couple minutes ago I got my MPRE test scores.  For those of you who don't know, the MPRE is the Multistate Professional Responsibilities Exam.  It's a test for aspiring lawyers to demonstrate their knowledge of basic ethical rules of conduct.  Texas requires a minimum scaled score of 85 to practice in this state. 

I got a 111. I didn't realize until I got the results back how much I was worrying about it.  But it's nice to have a victory for once.  Thank goodness!
And right now there's a band in my head playing The Happy Happy Joy Joy Song.  Let's all join in, shall we?

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Wanna hear something interesting?  The first day of the Bar I started coming down with something.  Sore throat.  Achy.  The suck.  And there's nothing I could do - I HAD to get to the Bar.  So I started praying - hard.  Not that I wasn't already.  I mean, it's the Bar, right? 

And I was fine.  For all three days. 

And today, it's hit with full force.  Sore throat, drainage, and I sound like Wolfman Jack all of a sudden.  Prayer?  Or the effects of quaffing copious amounts of orange juice the first day of the Bar?  You be the judge!

Well, it's done.  All done.  Results are expected on May 4th.  In the meantime, I need to sign up for the MPRE, and study for that.  But not tonight.

I don't know that I mentioned it anywhere else, but I thought I'd take a minute and relate an interesting thing that happened to me last year. 

It was the middle of the second day of the test, and I was sitting off to the side, eating my lunch when a man came up and started talking to me.  I didn't know this guy from Adam, and he starts talking about issues and questions and all these things that happened in the Multistate that day.  And I nodded and listened, and offered some commiseration.  And I don't know how we got on the subject, but all of a sudden he started bad mouthing conservative judges in Texas, and conservative lawyers, and conservatives in general.  Somehow, Alberto Gonzalez came up, and... well... I kept on nodding and listening.  And he's joking with me about how he'll nod and agree with conservative bosses, keeping his true politics close to the vest. 

And, well, the other day I started thinking about it.  Now, I'm an Idaho farm boy.  Growing up on a potato farm in Idaho around some very, VERY conservative people has left its mark.  I'm pretty conservative.  And a believer that America is a pretty special place.  But for some reason, this guy was very comfortable spouting off a left-wing rant at me.  So, do I give off some kind of crazy, liberal vibe?  Or am I just a good listener?

Hmmm... I was even wearing my "Peace through Superior Firepower" shirt.  Although to be fair, I was sitting with my back to a concrete pillar, so he probably didn't see it.

Went through a bunch of Evidence questions today.  And I did pretty well.  Some FRE review, and I'll  feel better.  Tonight, though, I return to BlackAcre with a review of Real Property.

I'm a little discouraged after doing some basic contracts review. How much will it cost to re-take the bar?  (Hopefully not necessary)  I comfort myself with the thought that this is exactly what this review is intended to do - show me where I may screw up on the test. 

But I do wish it was a little more... um... encouraging.

Just got through (undisclosed number) of days of Texas Civ Pro review.  At this point I'd like to file a motion to have someone whack me over the head with a mallet. A really big one.

Okay.  I haven't been posting at all in the last couple months.  LOR has slid on to the back burner (which happens fairly regularly, I see).  GSG will probably go out on time this weekend, but we won't see a new episode after that until August.

The Texas Bar is in two weeks.  And I feel woefully unprepared.  So if you don't see or hear from me until August, that's why.