Unless you’re in Louisiana, your bar exam is over or will be over by tomorrow evening. Three years of law school, two months of frantic studying, and two or three days of intense effort have paid off.1 You might be taking a vacation, starting work, or getting ready to look for a job. But you have a big problem now: what fills the space left by the bar exam.
If you’re on your second or third attempt at the bar or you were already working, it can be even worse. The bar has taken up your social life and hobbies, so it’s tied in more closely to your identity than new graduates approaching the bar as a short term job or even just one last hurdle. When people are constantly asking you about your bar progress, it can be even worse.
You need to find something to fill that void. Return to a hobby. Start a new hobby. Exercise. Start blogging. Whatever, it doesn’t matter. You’re going to find yourself with more free time than you might have had in years. Because if you don’t fill that time, something else will fill it: worrying about the bar exam. And I speak from personal experience when I say that is not a productive or healthy hobby.
- Yes, paid off. Not paid off hopefully. You got through the bar exam, which is something to be proud of. ↩
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