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Bar Review Diaries: Where Is My Motivation?

Our Bar Review Diarists are getting into the thick of studying. And things are still pretty dull. So what do they do to shake up the dust?

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Lay it on me, Andrew:

Dear Diary,

So I was trolling Wikipedia the other day looking for something interesting to write about this week. (My thought process: there must be something I can write about that will be funnier than the continuing saga of BikeDude.)

Jesus, man! Are you trying to get us all killed? Don’t feed the trolls, for the love of Pete! NEVER FEED THE TROLLS.

Oh well…

Lo and behold, I started reading about impending doom. According to Wikipedia, the “Kubler-Ross model” holds that someone who is facing impending doom often suffers five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Wikipedia says many scholars have disputed this model, but those scholars obviously have never studied for the bar exam.

For me, Stage 1 was relatively quick. It’s hard to deny that you’ll be taking the bar exam… since… you know… I signed up for the bar exam. And I signed up for a bar prep course. And I’m journaling my experience. And I just paid $110 to the Ohio Board of Bar Examiners in order to use my own computer for the test.

That leaves me at Stage 2. I’ve been here a while, and I don’t think the anger is going away anytime soon.

The greatest source of my current anger? The MBE. Why, oh why, on God’s green earth, do we have to take the MBE? (And don’t tell me it’s because of the radical environmentalists, Mr. Santorum.) That’s right, I’m calling out the Ohio Bar Examiners on this one. I don’t think one single Ohio Bar Examiner could rationally justify the significance of the MBE.

As I understand it, in order to practice law in Ohio, I have to pass the Ohio bar exam. This ensures I know Ohio law, I can answer my client’s questions, yada yada yada. So in order to make sure I know Ohio law, I take a test based on non-Ohio specific law. Makes sense, right? Even better, it’s multiple choice. You know, because when a client walks in with a problem, they usually ask you a question and then provide four, increasingly muddled, confusing answers, which are intended to trip you up on some little-known, minutiae of law. Solid.

Second, I recently paid the Ohio Bar Examiners $110 to use MY OWN COMPUTER. Double solid.

(Note to the few people who are still reading this post: unless you are currently studying for the bar using Themis, I would skip ahead to BikeDude in the comments because what follows is an inside joke.) That being said, I’m looking forward to the next stage, bargaining, or as I like to think of it, time to get my caterpillar on.

I have honestly no idea what he means there. But as they say, studiers gotta study. That’s it for now; we will check in again next week with our Diarists as they continue to get their study wheels turning.

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