As I write this, it is only nine short hours before I start my first class with BarBri.

This is uncharted water for me. To this point, I’ve made it through my academic pursuits with live instruction, pseudo-Socratic method, and nothing more on the line than a letter grade. BarBri provides one of that as lectures are presented on videotape, no one is there to call on you, and at the end of the run is an exam to determine if you are able to do the profession you’ve spent three years of your life preparing for. No pressure, though.

I’m already off to a rocky start. I signed up back in February so that I could get the free MPRE course, but through some sort of paperwork error, BarBri never had my application on file. Because of that, I just registered on May 8. This probably wouldn’t be too bad except that meant my books (all 24 pounds of them) weren’t shipped until May 14. Needless to say, they haven’t arrived yet. Not only that, the location of my class hasn’t been announced yet as far as I can tell.

Nevertheless, I’ll be at Nunn Hall tomorrow morning at 9am, looking for the room and hoping I don’t need a book until Tuesday.

Another unfortunate thing I learned about tonight is that there was a multi-state primer available online for free to jump start my bar review. There are two hour videos for the multi-state topics that you can watch in advance. I didn’t discover this until tonight. I wish I had watched them this past week, but I hope to catch up in the evenings after class this week.

I’m nervous, but excited. It’s a new phase. Most of my law school friends are taking the Ohio bar exam and so their class is in Cincinnati. And the only person I know that I’ve found so far is taking the classes in the morning session. I signed up for the evenings because I think that will leave less chance that I’ll put off some evening studying to go out with friends or family.

May 17, 2009
72 Days until the Bar Exam