Gl everyone

That's brutal about getting sick. I've been fearing that morbid possibility even though I rarely get sick. Good luck.

yea. "you could get sick before a big court date!" preemptive die to whoever says that

im really fortunate my parents are able to help me out, otherwise i might not even be able to give this a shot. like burning several vacation days on this. i owe them big time.

you'll still pass.

plenty of other mouth-breathers out there. that's what i kept telling myself.

Just try to take care of yourself as best you can. Listen to your body and choose rest over trying to cram your outlines or squeezing in a few more questions. I took the PA bar essay portion with a migraine, ate the blandest lunch I could get (white rice and crackers) and vomitted it into my to go bag in the lobby of the convention center in front of a few dozen people, and I still passed.

yea i know i just... im not feeling well at all right now. im questioning whether or not ill be able to sit for it tomorrow, although i assume i will as of right now.

the problem is the complete lack of sleep + everything else is making it difficult to recall anything by memory and/or concentrate on fact patterns, which is obv the concern.

tomorrow may be a test of how well i can make up law and be right if that's the case, but heck, that's actually not as hard as it sounds i think

big issue is VA has like a 65-75% pass rate depending on the year (feb exam was like 64-65% or something) and it requires a massive amount of material... like 22 state subjects + MBE. and VA civ pro is a 150 page outline full of little detail nitty stuff they randomly test. it truly is ridiculous.

Confirmed glad I'm taking the bar in an easier state than Virginia.

Admittedly passing the bar isn't essential for my job, at least not right away. The idea of deferring to Feb to so i could start work quicker was something I seriously considered. If it doesn't go well because of the circumstances I can just stay up on the material without hardcore studying and retake in Feb. As long as I'm physically able to sit and take it tomorrow I will. It's a free roll at this point I guess.

Aftermath edit to add this post was made from my toilet

I feel your pain karak. I haven't been sick in years and the last couple days got what I thought was a cold. Felt terrible today, took my temp, 102.2. This needs to go away now. I feel like crap.

im just gonna go ahead and blame penn state or something

gl man. hope you feel better .

Get well soon Karak.

Got badge today. 3rd to last in line. 2nd to last was a lad from UC Davis who passed the CA bar last year. But he got hired in AZ so he decided to sit for it here. And his job was a nonprofit borderline charity group.

add that to the fact that the line was full of people that didn't look much like recent grads. Yeah this a royal 6 digit mess I've got myself in.

Just take it man. You'll be fine. Even if you fail, you'll be fine.

Lkj felt so bad about me being sick that he gave me ichiro

Not planning on sleep tonight but I'll try.

Yeah gl, to all the bar takers.

Will be feeling the pain this time next year.

Love Ichiro, but perfectly fine with us trading him off. Hard to imagine the M's being good until at least 2014, and he's already clearly lost several steps...he was never going to be any good by the time we're ready to make another playoff run.

(A little surprised that Mariners and Yankees management were consummating a deal so soon again though.)

Cramming all I can for lots of subjects right before day one. Gonna have to run lucky on what subjects get tested on the essays, since there are so damn many of them and some that I had learned reasonably well I haven't touched in a couple of weeks and probably haven't retained that much.

Left one subject completely for dead (estate and gift tax) after two attempts to learn it. It just wasn't clicking quickly enough and I decided that especially with that area of law in an unpredictable state of flux it was unlikely to get tested this time, especially getting a full question devoted to it.

If I simply end the day feeling mediocre/okay about how it went, then good enough. Banking far more on day two.

I didn't get a wink all night (I did try) and essentially haven't slept in two days. This is gonna be great.

LOL Yankees doing what they do best and buying aging talent that isn't as good as it used to be.

Good luck guys you will all do just fine. I am rooting for you all. Karak, keep your head up, and feel better. Go get em guys.

Congratulations! Look for topics that challenge the group think. In a civil rights view, look at America's move toward security and watch for it's effect on freedom.

Some ideas: How the "Effective Death Penalty Act" has destroyed 1983 and placed inmates in jeopardy.

Look at Scalia's decisions in 4th Amendment cases and then look at his opinions in 1983 cases and ask "Is 1983 a real solution to 4th amendment violations?"

"9/11 and the Security exceptions to the 4th Amendment"

Is Killing an American abroad by drone, a violation of 1983?"

"If life liberty and the pursuit of happiness are self-evident, how does that square with recent rulings against undocumented aliens in cases that hold our Bill of Rights does not apply to them.

A remedy for exhaustion of state remedies for inmates (look at the Summary Judgment decision in Mastroanni v. Nassau County (Judge Spatt ENDY)
(Keeping prisoners from ever exhausting their remedies to bar them from a federal courtroom)

If you want to talk more about it PM me and we can speak in person.

Also you might want to consider trying to get the school to sponsor a national symposium on Civil Rights Advocacy and do a call for papers. It might be too late to pull it off this year but assuming next year you are an editor, you want to set the stage now.

Good luck.
ACShark425

Some guy had a full blown seizure in the morning essay session.

Yikes.

Talked to my gf about an hour ago and she said she was at a table with a girl who has failed both the AR and TN bars so far, and didn't get to the second MPT essay until 25 minutes left in the first morning session.

Did they tell him to quit being such a pussy and finish the exam? seems like a good time to repost this:



http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03...hasnt-let.html

I can't think of something more pathetic than imposing unattainable time restraints on someone with severe cerebral palsy.

essays crushed me