# My Bar Exam results are in aaaand... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 6, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557 "2002-11-06T14:57:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/1 "2002-11-06T14:57:26Z")
I passed! First try! Woo hoo! I kept a thread journal during the last seven days before the bar and during the three days of the exam, link: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=127238](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=127238) Hope I didn’t screw that up. Anyway, thanks to the Dopers who chimed in and cheered me on in that thread: **Max Carnage islandgirl Mystery dog JoeBlank BottleBlondJeanie Tiburon Bearflag70 Dinsdale Jodi blanx Medea’s Child** You guys rule. IAAL!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/2 "2002-11-06T15:15:02Z")
Congratulations, pravnik. Our MaxTorque also passed the bar exam. Congrats to our new Esquires! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/3 "2002-11-06T15:21:22Z")
Woo Hoo!! :Does my own happy dance around the room, which is a bit more free-wheeling than the Republican Happy Dance: **Woo Hoo!!!** Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/4 "2002-11-06T15:26:44Z")
I cheered you on? Damn. Must have been an off day. Welcome to the club. Hope you’re looking forward to working with all those folks you couldn’t stand in law school. Just remember - everyone is lying. What types of jobs do our crop of fresh young lawyerdopers plan on doing? Is the current legal job market really full of hot young babes like I see on TV? What do you think is an appropriate over and under before **prav** starts his first Pit thread about his new career, and what will be the topic? I predict 54 days, and billing. Go forth and litigate. ---
**Author:** ![Mystery\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mystery\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mystery_Dog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/5 "2002-11-06T15:30:57Z")
Congratulations, **pravnik**! I knew you would make it. Welcome to the wonderful world of law! ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/6 "2002-11-06T18:18:19Z")
I don’t suppose you want to take on a pro bono case to fight one of the amendment passed in FL, do you? ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/7 "2002-11-07T00:16:29Z")
Cool! I even got a happy dance! Sorry, **Ivylass** , can’t do no pro bono in Florida… I’ll only be licensed in Texas. My Pit thread probably won’t be billing, **Dinsdale** -I’m a law clerk for a federal judge for the time being. Maybe once my term is up. Thanks again, everybody, and cross-congrats to **Max Torque**! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/8 "2002-11-07T00:46:52Z")
Yup, I just passed too. Ain’t it a bitch that Texas made us wait this long? Ah well. It’s a relief to finally know. Congrats, fellow examinee! ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/9 "2002-11-07T01:27:45Z")
Law clerk to a federal judge? Wowsers. 🙂 Well done you. And well done MAX. Now let’s see how long it takes until you can say “I’m a lawyer” with a straight face – it took me about a couple of years. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/10 "2002-11-07T01:58:30Z")
Congratulations. Wishing you joy and happiness in your new position. ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/11 "2002-11-07T12:53:14Z")
doing a happy little dance for ya! 1, 2, 3 cha cha cha, 1, 2, 3 prav’s a lawyer! congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/12 "2002-11-07T14:37:24Z")
Are you in Texas? Just curious, since my practice is entirely in the fed cts. Not in Tejas, tho. Maybe you’ll get to draft some nice insulting opinions in cases **minty** is handling. Bonus points for the first time you describe an attorney’s pleading as “execrable.” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/13 "2002-11-07T14:44:20Z")
Yes, I’m down in Houston, though. _minty’s_ a Dallasite, don’t know if he makes it down here much. “Execrable”… perfect! Hee hee! ---
**Author:** ![Tiburon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/14 "2002-11-07T15:03:13Z")
WONDERFUL NEWS, Pravnik!!! You totally kick ass. Tibs. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/15 "2002-11-07T15:12:48Z")
Just trying to be helpful - here’s some language you can simply cut and paste in a significant number of cases you’ll be seeing: **The Commissioner’s final decision was supported by substantial evidence.** ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/16 "2002-11-08T00:17:23Z")
Congratulations! Which state’s exam are you taking next? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bar-exam-results-are-in-aaaand/135557/17 "2002-11-08T00:52:34Z")
CONGRATS! …and now, you will learn, Grasshopper, that after all you have done to get where you are… three years of law school hell, two months of diligent and gut-wrenching study for the Bar Exam, two or three days of torture taking the exam, and the pain of waiting for the results… …all of this teaches you virtually NOTHING about the actual practice of law. The learning curve over the next 1-to-5 years is steep, my friend… be patient and diligent. Congrats again!