On Friday, June 4 after 9:00 p.m.  for the first time the possibility of not passing the bar exam presented to myself as a real possibility.  The vast amount of material that we need to have a handle on plus all the multistate versus state specific distinctions can be infuriating. 

I was feeling really anxious and stressed out.  I immediately grabbed my phone and called my bar mentor’s one by one at 9:30 p.m. on Friday.  Unfortunately, I couldn’t get in touch with any of them.  I finally dialed my friend who is studying for the Cali bar having taken almost none of the bar exam subjects in law school and I reached her as she was getting ready to go out with her friends.   It was calming to talk to her because she didn’t even know what the heck an MPT is and doesn’t really care that she doesn’t know what it is right now.  

Sure, the Cali bar is hard.  Sure, my friend hasn’t taken 90% of the subjects that they test on.  Sure, she is going out on a Friday night instead of studying.  And sure, she doesn’t really know what the heck the MPT which is 10% of the bar exam is.  Right now, if I have to pick which one of us will pass I would pick her.