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Bar Review Diaries: In Defense of Drinking or Playing Outside Instead of Studying

Just because you're studying for the bar doesn't mean you can't have a little bit of fun this summer.

onJune 12, 2012 at 3:22 PMJune 20, 2012 at 2:50 AM

Let ‘er rip, Andrew:

Dear Diary,

Another week of studying is in the books… er, saved to my Themis account online. This past week was the first time I’ve really dug into subjects specific to the Ohio Bar Exam. (Or, as I like to call them: employment opportunities for Ohio law professors who otherwise would have never been asked to conduct a video review.) A few thoughts:

1. It’s not about what you know but who you know. The bar exam is held out as some test of general knowledge about the law. But I’m pretty sure anyone who has taken a bar review course will agree: that’s a load of bullpucky. The bar exam is a psychic exercise in guessing what… cue ominous dun dun dun sound… “The Bar Examiners” are looking for.

2. As I learned from my required one-hour course in substance abuse issues, lawyers (and those training to be lawyers) are really good drinkers. Well, do I have a drinking game for them!

Step one: Cue up a bar review video. Step two: Take a swig every time the professor onscreen reminds you that “this is what ‘The Bar Examiners’ are looking for.” Step three: It doesn’t matter because after three or four videos, you’ll be sloshed.

3. Seriously, wouldn’t “The Bar Examiners” be a great horror movie title? I’m thinking of that movie that starred Steven Tyler’s daughter a few years ago.

I’ve actually seen that movie. It’s scary, and it’s called The Strangers. Here is the trailer. But anyway, let’s see Andrew’s bar studies adaptation:

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An eager bar studier is hard at work in her apartment. She’s on pace to hit all of her Themis benchmarks. Then . . . a knock at the door. She answers, but no one is there. She sits back down. Another knock. Again, no one is there. As the scene cuts away, you see a glimpse of a man in a mask in the doorway. The scene fades to black, and a caption appears.

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Do I smell a summer blockbuster? I mean, it couldn’t be worse than Prometheus.

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