I wonder what it means that the Oregon Bar Exam results were announced at the very minute that Reed's Thesis Parade was going on? Congratulations to all who made it through.

Sitting inside all day looking for jobs is not good for me. For one thing, there aren't many.

I did apply for something at a local energy-related nonprofit. Playing the old nuclear reactor license up for all it's worth. We'll see how much that is...

I posted to the kansascity community asking about the prospect of attorney jobs there, and the responses ( Read more... )

I went down to Salem today, and was sworn in as an attorney licensed to practice in Oregon.

I could tell you about the ceremonial initiation rites, but then I'd have to kill you it was fairly boring. Except for the part when the head of the Board of Bar Examiners compared the practice of law to the One Ring from The Lord of the Rings or the Dark ( Read more... )

February 2008 Oregon Bar Exam results

To: cschulz@osbar.org ( Read more... )

"But I've always thought - tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune." [1](Of course, this same character later "imagined some cool future scholar looking through a time-telescope at her, and gave him a ( Read more... )

Last night I had my first Bar Exam nightmare. I dreamed that the exam was tomorrow, and I wasn't nearly ready, and woke up on my back, sweating. (I almost always awake on my back from dreams, which suggests that I only dream, or remember my dreams, when sleeping that way. I don't like sleeping on my back at all, and can't fall asleep that way - it ( Read more... )

It's been nearly impossible for me to focus the past few days. I've been exhausted all the time - staying up far too late, because bed is cold and uninviting, and then having trouble getting up, because the outside world is cold and uninviting too. It's utterly freezing here - clear and beautiful, but mercilessly cold, and the house is always ( Read more... )

I failed the Bar exam.

The good: I finished the questions on the MPRE with an hour to spare.

The bad: This left me with enough time to estimate my score. I went back and grouped all the questions into one of three categories: those that I was reasonably confident of; those where I had narrowed the answer down to one of two choices, where the choice was split between a ( Read more... )