I have to take the MPRE (Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination) today. It’s a required test that purportedly tests your ethics for the practice of law, but in reality it poses to you a series of questions, the vast majority which would never, ever happen or have any effect on anyone outside the finite boundaries of law school question-writers, and you have to select the “best” or “most correct” answer from four choices. Which means, of those four choices, there may well be multiple correct answers, or no correct answers, but you are responsible for finding the “Best” or “most correct” of those and selecting it.
And to top it off? I’m sick. It’s nothing serious or nauseating, luckily, but my ears hurt terribly, and my glands on either side of my neck are fiercely puffy and sore (which, I think, is what is making my ears hurt). I have a persistent raspy cough, no doubt brought on my lovely post-nasal drip experiences. Ugh.
Item number umpteenth that I won’t miss about school: one-shot-determines-it-all tests (that I have to pay to take) written specifically to trip you up, stress you out, and somehow “make you a better lawyer/person/advocate.” Insert eye-roll here.
–M
Labels: bar exam, law school
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I’m Marissa, can-do-ologist, perpetual Curious George, and daily adventurer. 
