I think the bar exam is over for everyone (my condolences if you still have another day to go)! Now we’re just left to wait.
At this point in our careers, we should have become expert “waiters.” We took the LSAT, and then waited for our scores. We sent out all of our law school applications, and then waited for acceptances. We went through the stress of 1L year, and then waited for our grades. We spent a week busting tail for the write-on competition, and then waited for journal acceptances. As aspiring lawyers, we have to do a lot of waiting. And once again, we will wait and hope that our hard work will pay off. And for some people it will and for some people it won’t, but either way we will all be okay. I promise; we will.
But if it makes you feel any better, you should know that if you feel nervous or bad about how the bar exam went, you are not alone! I have actual scientific proof. WordPress allows you to see what search terms have brought people to your site and I have included some of those searches below:
- how to feel after the bar exam
- anxiety bar exam
- feeling bad after second day of bar exam
- “stupid people” pass the bar
- “bar exam” what if power outage
- the bar exam will be okay
- breakdown of friendship while studying for the bar exam
- bar exam suicidal feeling (this one makes me sad, I hope the searcher is okay)
- feel terrible after bar exam
- bar exam study no shower sleep stress
- people who don’t pass bar exam stupid
- are you stupid if fail bar exam?
- feel like shit after bar exam
- things to say bar exam
- mbe bar exam afternoon
- today’s mbe exam
- how should i feel after bar exam
- how i felt after the bar exam
- i feel sick after bar exam what does that mean
- feel bad after bar exam
- things to say when people finish the bar exam
- do you feel like shit after the bar exam?
- bad feeling after bar exam
- feel after bar exam
- july 2012 bar exam mbe was so hard
So see, you are not alone. A lot of people feel bad about the bar exam. But it will be okay!!
Congratulations on finishing the exam! I know it is easier said than done (says the girl who was crying yesterday!!), but try not to let the anxiety you are feeling now overshadow this accomplishment.
Now get back to googling pictures of cats!!
Fact: Googling MBE questions will make you feel bad. Googling pictures of cute cats will make you feel happy.
Funny Someday 
#1 by mercadee on November 9, 2012 - 12:39 pm
There has been a lot of research and writing done on the emotional effects of preparing for the bar exam, the exam itself, the waiting period to get the results, and the effects of failing the exam. If you are interested in those studies, do a search on Westlaw, in the JLR database. Many people who have taken and passed the bar exam, including myself, periodically have dreams (or nightmares) about having to retake the exam, or dreams in which they have to take the exam for the first time. Those dreams go away after a while.