u/MidwesternMarsupial

I used cannabis at the recommendation of a doctor for nearly 7 years. During that time, I was an extremely motivated bodybuilder, I graduated in the top of my undergraduate class, got a full ride to law school, then graduated in the top of my class again and landed a position in biglaw. I did this vaping minor amounts of dry herb cannabis at night. I could control major depressive disorder that crippled me since I was a kid. It made me feel better even when I was sober the next morning. I’ve seen many psychiatrists and taken prescribed medication, which all made me feel worse. Since I stopped smoking at graduation around five months back, my childhood depression has come back full force. I have little to no motivation, major brain fog, over 20 pounds of weight gain, and am overall miserable. I still make it to the gym regularly, but I am barely holding it together in my new position. I just wanted to see that I could be successful completely sober, but it seems like that is not the case. My family and people close to me are concerned about me because this is unlike me. Could it be that this is PAWS 5 months out. If so, when will this end? I soon will not be able to take this anymore.

I find myself laughing at the withdrawal symptoms. I trick my brain into feeling pleasure when the fishhooks in my brain get torn out from quitting. I guess that makes me a masochist? The last time I tried this strategy, I quit for 1,000 days and then got back into it by idiotically celebrating by smoking a cigar. So I’m trying this strategy again to see if it holds weight like before.

I relived the whole exam in a prolonged nightmare, except it was much much worse this time. Typed only 200 words for an MEE. Every question took me painfully longer. I didn’t finish a single essay. I rewatched the MPT I fucked up in detail. Even though I completed the MBEs, in my dream, I didn’t fill out 7 of the last bubbles when time was called and had an ethical dilemma of whether I would fill them in quickly. I didn’t and then saw myself opening up the results on my laptop. FAILED. Woke up in sweats. Never will be staying in that hotel again lmfao.

Signed, a disgruntled bar examiner who never took the classes and thought I could get by with just a bar prep course. Take the classes. I warned you.

At 85%. To hell with this course and these gaslighting question sets. Switching to Adaptibar full time

I am completely missing the issues with the MEEs. I still manage to write enough that I can scrape by with 3s or 4s on most subjects. But just about every single MEE I’ve done over the past ten, I completely miss an issue. I’m trying to think, hone in on what the question is asking? Really try to reverse engineer the facts to see what rules apply to it?? I don’t know how lenient the bar graders are in comparison to this rubric because a lot of times, I’ll state the rules in other issues where they are not applicable. Even topics I know super well, I know the law, but I’m evidently not applying it to the facts correctly.

I’m shit out of luck if a corporations question comes up, and I know it probably will. Should have taken BA in law school.

I am diaspora born and raised in the states. I’ve done a bit of background research, but would like to see if anyone has any input on my specific questions.

My father was born and raised in the Wollo region in the mountains east of lake Hayk. He was born Muslim, but after his father died, his mother for reasons unknown to me was forced to leave him. He grew up under his grandmother, his dads mom, who was generally very abusive. She had him working in the fields of his own land from a young age. Like literally a 5 year old child working in the fields. His aunt who was Christian took him in and fed him Christian meat (I have heard there’s a difference?). He learned to read the bible and I believe may have begun to convert to Christianity. Later on, he took a job with the government when the derg came into power. He managed to defect after they threatened him and left the country, but has never been a religious man.

I know that orthodox Christianity was introduced to the region thousands of years ago. Does being from a Muslim family in Wollo suggest any likely historical connection to Yemen or Arabia, or is Wollo Islam generally local/indigenous Ethiopian in origin? I did 23andme and am almost entirely Ethiopian but with a small percentage Somali. My dad also said we were Amhara.

Do people generally convert regularly between Christianity and Islam? How much of an impact did the Derg have on religion? He says that when they took over, he dropped any religious beliefs whatsoever and has stayed that way. But many Ethiopians I know today are very religious (my dad seems to be an outlier), and I wonder how that that regime affected people’s right to worship in the area considering it mandated atheism. I don’t mean to stir any discontent or act with ignorance. I am genuinely curious.

BARBRI Simulated MBE. Only like 400 Adaptibar questions done so far. Was planning to outline each of the course companion lectures because I keep blanking on the rules and the MEEs are scaring me big time. I was also thinking flashcards but don’t know if I have enough time for everything including staying up to date with BARBRI. Any advice????

I’m noticing that the course companion is omitting pretty serious elements to the rules that are later tested in the short quizzes after the lectures. For example, one question asks whether a tenant can assign their interest in a tenancy at will. The answer is no because that is one of the exceptions that immediately terminate the tenancy at will. However, that rule is neither stated in the lecture or in the course companion. And it is causing me stress when I get the question wrong over stuff they haven’t just taught us.

I understand that this rule is stated in full in the outline, but then why not have it also in the course companion? I assume it is to just give us examples and save the outline for the actual rules, but regardless I am frustrated because the course companion on its own is not telling me everything I need to know to state and apply the rules correctly for MBE and MEEs, and the plan has us spending substantial time reviewing it. Perhaps I am alone in this frustration but wanted to see if anyone else shared it.

It could just be me but I’m having a terrible time following him in comparison to other lecturers. I feel like he’s all over the place and I wish they had a speaker that used the course companion instead.

Put em here. 42%

How do you guys intend to memorize everything? Flashcards? Making outlines? Just doing MBE questions?

I’m doing BARBRI. I was thinking I might create an outline of their outline. Honestly uncertain how I’m going to do that for all topics. Any tips???

I am only roughly 35% done with the BARBRI course and I am struggling to wake up every morning. It takes me the full day to do everything on the schedule and while I know the law, I simply do not have enough energy to read the questions carefully. That resulted in me bombing the torts capstone in the bottom 10% solely because I am so tired. I tried to add on adaptibar questions but have only gotten to 150 with 55% right. I feel like I’m going to fail and I’m having some of the most severe depression of my life. If I’m only a third done with the course I don’t know how I’m going to finish let alone do the 2000 questions people say they’re already done with. It’s already noon and I can’t even find the energy to start up again with the day. I take a day off each week but that’s not enough.

I believe others have posted questions similar to this subject, so I apologize in advance if this is redundant.

I am 10.4% done with the BARBRI course, yet am at this point supposed to be at 15%. I fell terribly ill with the flu after graduation and had to take a week off, but I understand one does not need to complete 100% of the course to pass.

My question lies in my concern that the foundations videos are not fully preparing me for the exam. I have been watching them at 2x speed, yet they seem to keep coming. Relative to my peers, they are already doing practice MBE questions through UWorld and the deep dives. While the course has me doing MPTs and MEEs with rule statements provided, I am wondering if it might be a good idea to purchase UWorld and do 25 extra practice questions a day alongside my regular BARBRI schedule while getting caught up. On the other hand, I know they’ve invested hundreds of thousands in this course, I wonder if I should simply stick to it and avoid shelling out the extra cash. Thank you all for your advice!