Tuesday, May 22, 2012

An Introduction

I have spent the last few weeks celebrating my graduation from University of Missouri--Kansas City School of Law, resting, celebrating my brother's graduation from McKendree University, resting, reading and gearing up to study for two months straight.

The Missouri Bar Exam will be conducted in Jefferson City on July 24th and 25th. Yes, the Bar is a two-day standardized test and is composed of multiple choice questions and various types of essays. I. Can't. Wait.

The first day consists of the Missouri Performance Test. the multiple choice portion, and the Missouri Essay Exam. The second day is the Multistate Bar Exam which includes Multistate Performance Test and the Multistate Essay Exam.

The two major Bar prep. options are private companies, barbri and Kaplan. These companies compete each year to fill classes with prospective attorneys. They recruit students, who are rewarded with free prep. classes, as early as the 1L year to hastle and hustle their fellow classmates. They encouraged us to sign up early by consistently raising the price every semester. "Buy now or it'll cost you more later." I recommend playing the two off of each other in order to get a price reduction.

Class begins tomorrow and continues daily 9-12:30 including some Saturdays, a few of which go all day. I procrastinated in signing up. I procrastinated in getting my bar loan. I procrastinated paying the full amount in order to be fully registered, and now I don't have my books to be ready for the first day. Even now I sit here writing this post when I have online review questions to do in order to be ahead for next week. Maybe you see my problem.

This blog will be a diary or journal of my experiences preparing for the Missouri Bar through the barbri class. I'll probably be complaining in abundance about the general act of studying and how as my friend Josh Wiseman put it, "Memorization is the lowest form of education."

In addition to complaining, I'll be talking about the laws we study in order to help myself understand them so if I get anything wrong, please, enlighten me. I'll also try to discuss policy considerations that I find in our study materials but this too will likely be primarily complaints, with an attempt at philosophical examination. Debate, argument and corrections are welcome and encouraged.

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