Everyone loves a good bar exam horror story.
The experience, usually only a mildly miserable one, is one that is shared by all attorneys, and we love to hear stories of when things go terribly awry for others. Yes, perhaps there is a good dose of schadenfreude that makes the ritualistic telling of bar exam horror stories so enjoyable, but it also helps people deal with the trauma of their own experience.
Yesterday the gods of Twitter, and user @MacTheSpork, brought us an old school story of bar exam horror. This is the story of what happens when your body betrays you during the most important exam of your life — and no, it’s not the story of someone going into labor during the bar exam. Think more poop.
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It’s good to know the proctors respected this poor woman had to drop the kids off at the pool, but the ending is just brutal.
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