Bar Moments

Yeah, I haven’t written in a while. I would feel bad about it, if I wasn’t just completely pre-occupied with, surprise surprise, the bar exam. Lately I’ve been having the first of what I am just going to call “bar moments.” I’m sure there will be many many more in the future. Bar moments are those small bits of time when the following realization kicks in: “OMG I have ___ more days till the bar exam. I know NOTHING about _______(enter subject here)! I am going to fail!!!!!” Now, before I get any angry responses from the studying folks, please understand that most bar moments last for only short periods of time, and then my rational mind kicks in and realizes that not getting some obscure rule of contracts correct is not going to cause me to fail my bar exam.

However, what is starting to worry me is the mild dread I get when I realize that I am having many more bar moments lately, and this has a lot to do with the fact that I have been doing more practice questions. And getting them wrong. Lots of them. On stupid stuff. I know what a fee simple determinable is. I know about the statute of frauds. I know how murder is different from manslaughter (I even know how those differ from the NY standards!!) But give me a multiple choice question and my brain goes screaming for the hills. I guess I just need to study a LOT more, and maybe my brain will stop freaking out.

Stupid brain.