Sixty-Five-Year-Old Man Takes Bar Exam

Yesterday I received my first written communication from the North Carolina Board of Law Examiners. The investigator assigned to my file stated that I had a nondisclosure issue. I had omitted to report on my application that I once attended classes at Florida Institute of Technology. It’s true; I had simply forgotten that I took two classes there some 33 years ago. I took another look at my Florida State University transcript, and there were those two FIT classes, for which I was awarded general graduate credit on my way to my MSLIS. Furthermore, this jogged my memory even more and I recalled that I had been an adjunct instructor at FIT and had earlier been an adjunct instructor at Daytona Beach Community College, which is now Daytona State College.

Fortunately, both of these were merely lapses in memory. I am duty bound to correct my application by filing an amendment, and I am required to state the reasoning for my omission in a notarized statement. Both will be in the mail next week.

This morning I, along with thousands of others of attorney-hopefuls, sat for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Examination, the MPRE for short. As I wrote earlier, the exam is required by most states. It’s the first time that I’ve taken such a standardized test since I took the GRE in 1987. I completed answering all sixty questions, made sure that I didn’t skip any questions on the answer sheet, reviewed every question a second time, and ultimately changed two of my original answers. We’ll soon learn how I did. Tomorrow I begin my bar review course.