Red Tape Win
So, having mailed off my moral character determination application on Friday after spending the morning running around getting fingerprinted and going to the post office and whatnot, I fired up the application to sit for the bar exam today, full of dread of what horrors might come.
It took 15 minutes. Most of that was waiting for the webpages to load. OK, more than 15, but only because I skimmed the bar admission rules before checking the tickybox that said "I certify I have read and understand the rules blah blah blah."
I'm another $648 poorer (plus residual moral character app expenses: $14 for the fingerprints, $4.75 for mailing a massive wad of papers certified mail, and a couple bucks for buying a manila envelope, a Sharpie, and Wite-Out for some typos in the print-outs). But I think I'm all paid up now. Now I just wait to find out where I'm taking the exam - San Mateo, Oakland, or Sacramento. Oh, and I have to get stupid ExamSoft running on my Mac one of these days (no WAY am I writing the bar exam by hand)...
SO GLAD I did this stuff early instead of waiting 'til the last minute and then discovering what a time-sucking nightmare the moral character app was. Also, why am I like the only law student I know who had a good-paying job 2L summer who actually thought ahead and saved some money to pay for the bar? I'm not hatin' on people (present readers included) who had mediocre-paying jobs - public interest and academia ain't a goldmine - but even other people from my law firm are like "Ooh boy time to max out my credit card" and "Phew, I got that private loan! I'm saved!" Really? We got paid $36,000 for 12 weeks of "work" and you didn't see this coming? You're single, you don't have kids or a mortgage, what the hell were you spending it on? I am TERRIBLE with money. I stupidly blew through most of my summer earnings in the fall doing things like having lavish birthday parties and ordering in delivery (with delivery fee and tip) from the Thai restaurant 2 blocks from my apartment. Yet I managed to stick five grand away so I wouldn't be running around going "OH NOES" now. Long-term planning and financial responsibility, dudes, they're kind of expected of lawyers.
OK, enough patting myself on the back. Homework time.
It took 15 minutes. Most of that was waiting for the webpages to load. OK, more than 15, but only because I skimmed the bar admission rules before checking the tickybox that said "I certify I have read and understand the rules blah blah blah."
I'm another $648 poorer (plus residual moral character app expenses: $14 for the fingerprints, $4.75 for mailing a massive wad of papers certified mail, and a couple bucks for buying a manila envelope, a Sharpie, and Wite-Out for some typos in the print-outs). But I think I'm all paid up now. Now I just wait to find out where I'm taking the exam - San Mateo, Oakland, or Sacramento. Oh, and I have to get stupid ExamSoft running on my Mac one of these days (no WAY am I writing the bar exam by hand)...
SO GLAD I did this stuff early instead of waiting 'til the last minute and then discovering what a time-sucking nightmare the moral character app was. Also, why am I like the only law student I know who had a good-paying job 2L summer who actually thought ahead and saved some money to pay for the bar? I'm not hatin' on people (present readers included) who had mediocre-paying jobs - public interest and academia ain't a goldmine - but even other people from my law firm are like "Ooh boy time to max out my credit card" and "Phew, I got that private loan! I'm saved!" Really? We got paid $36,000 for 12 weeks of "work" and you didn't see this coming? You're single, you don't have kids or a mortgage, what the hell were you spending it on? I am TERRIBLE with money. I stupidly blew through most of my summer earnings in the fall doing things like having lavish birthday parties and ordering in delivery (with delivery fee and tip) from the Thai restaurant 2 blocks from my apartment. Yet I managed to stick five grand away so I wouldn't be running around going "OH NOES" now. Long-term planning and financial responsibility, dudes, they're kind of expected of lawyers.
OK, enough patting myself on the back. Homework time.