The bar exam is only offered twice a year: July and February. Once you take the exam in New York it takes a ridiculously long time to find out your score. Once you find out your score you still have to wait about two months to be formally admitted. Not passing the bar the first time would mean another 9 months of not being able to really practice as a lawyer.
Andrew started law school in the fall of 2008. Anyone that knows Andrew well knows that he hates the game of school. Incredibly intelligent, the fastest reader I have ever met, a quick thinker, and fantastic arguer, law is the perfect career for my amazing husband. He just had a few little hurdles he had to jump through in order to get there and law school was the first.
While he suffered through endless lectures, exams that were four and five hours long, piles of reading and several papers, he managed to have a good attitude, work hard, earn good grades and graduate.
"Yeah you graduated! Have fun studying!"
Law school however, is just a ticket to taking the bar exam.
When Andrew's parents arrived for graduation they brought with them a stack of books for his law school prep course. It filled an entire shelf on our bookshelf and looked something like this:
For two months Andrew studied between six and eight hours a day. For the first month he had to take care of the cutest baby ever while I was finishing up my school year. We also had to move to New York--a life change not recommended by the bar review course. As Andrew struggled to stay awake as he listened to countless lectures (by some very boring and unattractive people) the day of the exam crept closer and closer.
Studying with Ben
Now it is November 2nd and this morning he received a wonderful email that said, "Congratulations, you passed!" After months of waiting and bad dreams we finally found out the awesome news.
So today I am thankful that Andrew passed the bar exam!
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