My friend just took the Oregon bar exam yesterday. It wasn’t made any easier by the fact that she was having another MS episode (from the stress) and lost most of her vision, but she took the damned thing anyway and from her description, I’m pretty sure she passed.
It’s a funny thing about adult students. They’re always in a panic, insisting that they did terribly and will flunk out. And you know, I don’t know even one who did.
But anyway, it’s been a long haul. She spent a good 18 months obsessing over the LSATs (ah yes, I remember it well!), explained to me why she’d never, ever get into an Ivy League law school (she just graduated from Cornell) and then when she got in, she kept telling me she thought she flunked her exams.
So let’s hear it for the middle-aged students! Yay!
Hurray-Hurrah for her! I know how she must have felt. At 45 years old I pursued a Masters Degree, graduated from Clark Atlanta U. with honors. Always felt that I had to do well at that age, ya know, time was running short!