My vacation ended rather abruptly. After my detour to the desert I grabbed the redeye back to Boston, landing in time to head over to the law school for the MPRE, the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam. What a horrible and seemingly pointless test. I'm not even sure I passed it, and I did take the course and I did study (although on retrospect I think I should have taken more pretests). There were a few things that I just couldn't remember from the BarBri course that would have been helpful to remember for the test, but basically I was struck by how little bearing the BarBri course and book had on the actual questions. BarBri had actually made some sense, organizing the material in a way that you could see how the rules could work together to guide the profession. The test on the other hand was just a morass of ethically indeterminable behavior that didn't distill to any clarity at all.
But really, it was all bad timing. I'd had my spring break trip all planned by the time I realized it was coming up, and I had to juggle my plane ticket around in order to make it back to sit for the test. A friend of mine suggested I get a note from a rabbi that I was Sabbath-observant, and therefore needed to take the test on a Sunday. But I decided not to pursue that plan: I'm NOT Sabbath-observant, and lying to a *rabbi* in order to get out of an ethics test just seemed amazingly unclear on the concept...
Edited 3/15.