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Day Forty-Six (the big question).
It is the Friday before the final weekend before the bar exam. Facebook and Twitter and my text message inbox are buzzing with one question: ”Do I study this weekend?” I don’t know. My only advice...
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Day Forty-Seven (bathroom break).
In his comment to my post about the things I wish someone had told me about the first day of the bar exam, Matt Zagaja mentioned one of his exam day fears — the bar’s rigmarole around restroom visits....
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The Night Before the Bar Exam (invincible summer).
Albert Camus said, “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Look, it’s the bar exam. We are not actually suffering here, we are privileged. This...
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The Day Of (a love letter).
Kristen is virtuosic with beverages. You can keep your Maddow, I have my Marcroft. She will whip egg whites for a pisco sour on any given Tuesday. Her gimlet features pre-prohibition gin, Rose’s, fresh...
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Bar Exam Day One (a little levity).
I saw Kristen at her lunch break today. I brought hot dogs. I also brought soda, which we never drink. I went Stewart’s Cream, full-on sugar. She was well. We ate and then sat in the sun for a bit...
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Bar Exam Day Two, Morning Edition (true blood).
I struggle with scary and/or bloody television. Inspired by our recent trip to England, we are currently re-watching The Tudors. Last night, right before bed, we saw the episode where several...
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Day After the Bar Exam (the fat lady has sung).
I don’t know how you feel today. Miserable? Relieved? Resigned? I felt awful right after. About a week post-bar I got to a place where I at least felt like I couldn’t do anything about it even if I...
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Guest Post (Jennifer Warner Cooper).
Note from Meghan: I asked Jennifer Warner Cooper, who just graduated with Kristen, to write a guest post for this blog in the aftermath of the bar exam. She is, as you will see below, hilarious. Dear...
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A Month After (idle hands are the devil’s playground).
It is a month after the bar exam. The day after the test Kristen and I hightailed it to the beach. We spend a couple of days just the two of us in Provincetown and then a week higher on the Cape with...
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The Night Before the Exam Results
This is what I would say to you, you, the person I get to sleep next to every night, the person who is (blessedly) now tonight breathing the measured in out in out in out of sleep. I would say, I say,...
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Before the Bar
Kristen passed the bar exam on the first shot. Today she was admitted to practice in Connecticut. In the words of the she-better-be-immortal Chion Wolf, “the life that Kristen Marcroft led to get to...
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