The last three days were easily the worst of my life. When they say the bar exam is a marathon, it's no joke. 17 hours of testing over three days. Two of those days are essay exams, meaning three-hour blocks of continuous writing on subjects so off the wall there's no way you could have studied for them ( Read more... )

Three years of law school, 2 months of studying, a broken elbow and a couple of anxiety attacks later, it all comes down to the next three days. I find myself relatively calm about it. I think I've got the method to taking this test down, and that's at least half the battle right there. I've always been a good test taker. Just follow the ( Read more... )

I am a law school graduate.

First in my family to go to law school, first to earn a doctoral degree.

It's been a lot of hard work, but it's really been worth it and I now have my degree in hand. :)

I am done with law school!!!

I've finished my last day of law school classes.

I've got a lot left to do, so it's not a terribly climactic event, but hey, it's still a pretty big deal. :D

Part 1 of the bar exam: passed. It would appear I am, in fact, ethical enough to be a lawyer.

Of course, it's parts 2 and 3 that are actually difficult.

Got the first part of the bar exam out of the way today. Had to get up at wtf o' clock for it, but at least it was only a 90-minute exam and I only had to put in about a day of studying for it. In 4-5 weeks I find out if I'm ethical enough to be a lawyer. You may submit well-worn drolleries on that point at your leisure.

A slightly more tumultuous but still successful semester. I maintain my solid B. :) Between that and my resume, there's got to be someone out there that will hire me. :D

Tomorrow I get to hang out with a bunch of real lawyers and hopefully make some good connections. But why does it have to start at 7 AM? >_

Another round of finals complete! Hard to believe I only have one more semester of this left. 3 years sure go by quickly.

Anyway, off to celebrate. :D

Today I picked up my first real clients for my immigration internship. All my other work during summers has been research and paper shuffling, so I'm very excited about this. I'll get other clients as the semester goes on, but I'm off to a good start. The first client is pretty simple, just making sure an application he made is getting through ( Read more... )