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What band do you work with (or are you speaking of your own personal band)? Did you get into law to relate it to working in the music business? If so...what do you wish to end up doing in the music business? I saw that you are working for the public defender so these questions might be way off base for what you are planning on doing with your life. The reason I'm asking is because I'm looking at law school with the purpose of working in the music business and I was wondering if that was your plan as well.

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I work only with my own band. I initially got into law to relate it to working in the music biz. I'm still doing that, but also considering other options, e.g. criminal defense, as a "day job" while I pursue music and if the time comes when I no longer wish to work in music.

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  • 2 months later...

Wednesday and Thursday, July 26 and 27, I go sit in a room with some 1,500 other people and fill in 200 circles (Wednesday) and write a bunch (Thursday). Finally. I was pretty stressed until very recently, but my roommate, with whom I spoke recently and who is taking a bar exam elsewhere, summed up my newly acquired feelings quite nicely: "I'm at peace with it."

That's right on. I know about everything I'm going to know for this thing. Tomorrow, I'll pick a couple areas (I'm thinking third party contract problems, free speech, and free exercise/establishment clause issues) and try to learn a few more things to maybe pick up that extra point or two. But that's pretty much it. No sense being worried or pissed off. I know what I know, they'll ask what they ask, I'll get right what I get right, and I'll pass or I won't. The only thing in my hands right now is staying focused and doing the best I can. (And getting up at 5:30 a.m. for the next couple days. Vern, where's that puke emoticon?)

"I'm at peace with it." I like that. Bring on Wednesday. Then bring on Thursday. Then bring on a companion of some sort (hopefully she's cute :o ) and a celebratory amaretto sour.

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...a celebratory amaretto sour.

Just the one? <grin> I'd say "good luck," except that there's no such thing, and even if there were, you wouldn't need it.

-Q

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Sadly, I did not get 200 questions on common law burglary. :pimp: I feel as though it went okay. Not great, just okay. But one thing I've learned from law school exams is that when you're in a pressure cooker test, it's extremely tough to tell how well you actually did. I've gone out of law school tests feeling horrible and ending up with excellent grades, and vice versa. So I'm adopting a "Who the hell knows?" approach with this one. As I said earlier, it's out of my hands (and out of my head until November).

Day two, the essay day, is tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to handwriting for two blocks of three hours.

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Sadly, I did not get 200 questions on common law burglary. :pimp: I feel as though it went okay. Not great, just okay. But one thing I've learned from law school exams is that when you're in a pressure cooker test, it's extremely tough to tell how well you actually did. I've gone out of law school tests feeling horrible and ending up with excellent grades, and vice versa. So I'm adopting a "Who the hell knows?" approach with this one. As I said earlier, it's out of my hands (and out of my head until November).

Day two, the essay day, is tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to handwriting for two blocks of three hours.

Did you take the laptop version? Or was it offered?

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Results are generally released in November. No laptop version was offered. The index finger on my right hand still hurts. My handwriting is messy at it is, so by about the sixth question half the struggle was just writing something remotely legible. Thanks for the good wishes. I'll let you all know in November. Hopefully the news will be good.

Interestingly, the MA bar people let us keep the questions for the essay part of the test. So if you really want to know what was on there, feel free to ask. :lol: If you are just curious what the questions look like in general, this page has all the questions from the past several years.

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I'm sure you will do more than okay on this test.

This is going to sound weird, but I've always HATED it when people gave me this particular bit of meaningless pep-talk. If I don't know how I'm going to do, how the heck does anyone else?! I know, I know, it means that they hold your abilities in high regard. I've just always preferred being reminded that it's not the end of the world if I do screw up, 'cause I always figure I will. :) Plus, it makes it seem like no big deal when you DO pass, and that's no fun at all. I'd prefer people to be surprised when I succeed; I always am.

I had similar jitters when I took the AATB CTBS exam (Amercan Association of Tissue Banks Certified Tissue Banking Specialist) because I missed 3 of the 4 exam-prep classes (I had too much work to finish to attend) and it was probably the first time in my life I've had to take an exam on something that I knew nothing about before I started studying. I mean, NOTHING. And it wasn't like one of those exams where, if you don't know the answer, you can guess. No, either you know it, or you don't. Oy.

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The index finger on my right hand still hurts.
Insert (in)appropriate finger comment here.

Anyhow, best of luck on it. Not that luck is really what's needed. Best of skill. So did you know the answers to the questions on the previous exams? Like, Sam's kid in February 06. That's a really hard question (especially if you haven't been to law school).

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