the answer
not at all today.
the worst part is that sometimes the page lags to load and then you're sure it's up. but you're wrong.
when it wasn't up by 2pm, we all concluded that it seemed like VA board of bar examiners style to wait until the last second before they left the office to put the results up. that way they wouldn't have to deal with any calls. i can't quite figure out whose immediate reaction upon learning that they had either passed or failed the bar would be to immediately call up the board of bar examiners, but it seemed like the sort of thing the VBBE would do.
alas, it was not. they have strung us along with this rumor of "it's always the second friday in october" and we will continue to be strung along. thru monday. which would fit with the other rumor. "it's always two weeks before the swearing in ceremony."
oh, and i forgot the worst part. turns out the assigning partner has been getting questions about when we'll be sworn in and able to go to court. i happened to be in his office this morning and he asked me. well i had to tell him, "the rumor is today." which meant (1) then he knew and was waiting to see the results too and there will be no lag time b/t learning you failed the bar and the whole firm knowing you failed the bar, and (2) i had to listen to the entire story about (both) times he passed the bar and how it's all going to be ok. not that i mind him telling me the story. but this "it's all going to be ok, of course you passed" is everyone's reaction to your nerves. but i don't like it. b/c not everyone does pass. some people fail. and you really have NO idea if you are one of those people. if i am one of those people, i'd really rather that everyone hadn't told me that of course i would be ok and pass.
but i digress. i have places to go and boyfriends to pick up from the train station!
the worst part is that sometimes the page lags to load and then you're sure it's up. but you're wrong.
when it wasn't up by 2pm, we all concluded that it seemed like VA board of bar examiners style to wait until the last second before they left the office to put the results up. that way they wouldn't have to deal with any calls. i can't quite figure out whose immediate reaction upon learning that they had either passed or failed the bar would be to immediately call up the board of bar examiners, but it seemed like the sort of thing the VBBE would do.
alas, it was not. they have strung us along with this rumor of "it's always the second friday in october" and we will continue to be strung along. thru monday. which would fit with the other rumor. "it's always two weeks before the swearing in ceremony."
oh, and i forgot the worst part. turns out the assigning partner has been getting questions about when we'll be sworn in and able to go to court. i happened to be in his office this morning and he asked me. well i had to tell him, "the rumor is today." which meant (1) then he knew and was waiting to see the results too and there will be no lag time b/t learning you failed the bar and the whole firm knowing you failed the bar, and (2) i had to listen to the entire story about (both) times he passed the bar and how it's all going to be ok. not that i mind him telling me the story. but this "it's all going to be ok, of course you passed" is everyone's reaction to your nerves. but i don't like it. b/c not everyone does pass. some people fail. and you really have NO idea if you are one of those people. if i am one of those people, i'd really rather that everyone hadn't told me that of course i would be ok and pass.
but i digress. i have places to go and boyfriends to pick up from the train station!
posted by laura at 8:36 PM
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Yes, I also hate the "of course you'll pass, everyone does" because there are 20% of people who don't, and they aren't always dumb people, just people. And the bar is one of those tests that you never know how you did at all, and it is perfectly plausibe to have failed, and I don't want to hear "of course I'll pass" if I might not!
Argh.
The night before the exam, I found another blogsite with a slew of "Ways to Tell You're Taking the Bar," the best of which was "Every conversation you get into with people who aren't begins to sound like an intervention- 'you're going to be okay,' 'it'll be fine, you'll see,' 'you can do it,' 'we love you, why do you hurt us so much?,' 'daddy, please don't drink.'"
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