09 August 2006
congrats
sunny chen was passing through hong kong this week with her mom, working on some sunrider business. we were able to meet up for a nice dinner (delicious vietnamese food!) and to catch up on her wedding plans, busy summer etc.
we also heard about sunny's experience taking the california bar exam in pasadena a couple of weeks ago. other friends including chris rollins and dave lee also finished taking bar exams during the same time. it brought back a lot of memories of the jumble of feelings associated with last summer's intense studying, bar-taking and job-starting.
dave wrote in an email that the bar was an experience (from studying to the actual exam) that he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. i remember thinking the exact same thing just after finishing, although i would have to add waiting for the exam results to that list. i guess some view it as a rite of passage, but in my reality it is a brutal roller coaster of energy, emotion and stress which does not necessarily make one any more qualified to practice law.
whether or not any of you passed, congratulations are definitely in order just for going through the experience, for being willing to face the odds, for giving up several months of your lives to memorize things like whether some obscure rule applies in california, or federally, or only in the make believe world of the MBE. you should feel good that you have made it this far, and forget about the exam until october/november/december rolls around and results come in.
veni vidi vici.
we also heard about sunny's experience taking the california bar exam in pasadena a couple of weeks ago. other friends including chris rollins and dave lee also finished taking bar exams during the same time. it brought back a lot of memories of the jumble of feelings associated with last summer's intense studying, bar-taking and job-starting.
dave wrote in an email that the bar was an experience (from studying to the actual exam) that he wouldn't wish on his worst enemy. i remember thinking the exact same thing just after finishing, although i would have to add waiting for the exam results to that list. i guess some view it as a rite of passage, but in my reality it is a brutal roller coaster of energy, emotion and stress which does not necessarily make one any more qualified to practice law.
whether or not any of you passed, congratulations are definitely in order just for going through the experience, for being willing to face the odds, for giving up several months of your lives to memorize things like whether some obscure rule applies in california, or federally, or only in the make believe world of the MBE. you should feel good that you have made it this far, and forget about the exam until october/november/december rolls around and results come in.
veni vidi vici.
