FOR ALL SPM STUDENT 2013 PLEASE COME
HERE..
It’s over. It’s behind you. You’ve
taken the bar exam.
If you’re lucky, you’ve got some
time off before you start working. If you’re unlucky (or let’s face it, luck-neutral),
you’re still waiting on an actual job offer before you start working. Either
way, you now have to find a way to fill all the hours in the day you used to
spend studying. It’s freeing, but it can also be daunting: not so much skipping
through a meadow of free time as it is staring into the soul-shaking abyss of
an empty schedule. Here’s how to deal:
VERY
IMPORTANT : Save your personal relationships
Your friends outside the legal world might need to be
reminded that you are alive. Your romantic partner might need to be reminded
why they are with you.
Catch
up on pop culture. At best, you were able to make time for Arrested
Development season 4, back in the optimistic early days of bar exam study
season. But you almost certainly missed Orange is the New Black, which is just
as good as everyone says it is, lends itself to binge-watching, AND features
some hot girl-on-girl action. Pacific Rim is an entire movie about giant
robots punching giant monsters in the face. Jay-Z dropped a new album. All this
and more. Catch up now or you’ll forever have a black hole in your cultural
fitness.
Pick
up a new hobby. I taught myself to (badly) play
harmonica after the bar exam, and started on a giant cross-stitch pattern
(which I am still intermittently working on). My brother-in-law planted a
vegetable garden. Maybe take a page from George W. Bush and take up oil
painting. Point is: your brain is still in learning overdrive. Take advantage
of this window of opportunity. Whatever activity you pick is almost definitely
more interesting than property law.
Go
outside. Don’t miss all of summer.
Sure, it’s August now, which depending on where you live might mean outside is
a muggy hell-hole, but get some warm weather fun in while you still can: run
through a sprinkler, drink mojitos outside (in a way that complies with your
local liquor ordinances, naturally), wear a sundress and/or ogle girls in
sundresses.
Or
do nothing at all. Stay
horizontal all day, staring at the ceiling. Only eat take-out. Better yet,
delivery. Go days without charging your phone. Basically, act like a majorly
depressed person. NO JUDGMENT. You’ve earned it.
Congrats on making it through bar
exam season. May it be your last.
