Spring break. That magical time in the semester where the students are freed from their academic binds, and let loose on the world. Some go home, and are pampered by the affection of the parental units. Some go on vacations to warm southern climates, where they run around in bathing suits and get drunk a lot. And some of us spend the majority of our breaks studying for an ethics exam and writing briefs for the court. Would anyone like to hazard a guess as to what I did? Yes, I took my MPRE (Ethics exam) today. I only hope that I passed with the requesit score so I do not have to take it again. I rather hope I did. Not because I am worried that I am somehow not ethical. Quite the contrary, I am worried I was too ethical, which is penalized on the exam. Yes, they want us to make sure we know just how low we can stoop as lawyers. Although, after studying for this exam, I now realize why people think lawyers are unethical. We are, by normal people standards, in certain areas. And in others, we are not. But if you always toed the ethical lines drawn by the ABA rules of Professional Responsibility, you prolly would not look like a very ethical person. And so the cycle of people disliking lawyers goes on....