Taking the bar exam is not fun. Taking it twice is really not fun. As I’ve already posted, I’m taking the bar exam again and hope to admitted in Minnesota.
In the effort to start a law firm, I have to actually move to the area and take the July, 2011 bar exam. Yay! So, in preparation, I am signing up for BarBri review again. Double yay!
My justification for using BarBri again is that I took it once before and passed the Indiana bar exam. Some might ask: Since you passed 1 bar exam, can’t your just study your self and pass another? The answer: Maybe? As an attorney, I am very risk adverse and the way to control risk is to do what you know works. So, the answer is BarBri – I signed up today.
Which gets me to the point of this post. I spent $2,615.00 at the special alumni rate to take the full course, plus the mobile upgrade. I get a significant discount on the tuition as an alumni, but I am in Indiana so I need to sign up for the mobile option because I don’t want to move to Minneapolis for two months.
And there is a catch – the BarBri mobile has a $295.00 upgrade fee and a $200.00 refundable deposit fee for a IPod Touch. There goes my alumni break. I get to watch the lectures and get materials on the IPod Touch they are going to ship to me. So, being an alumni is starting to look less good.
I would be ok with the obvious Apple-in-bed-with-BarBri deal, but I’ve already got a Google smart phone. Why can’t they send me the software to the phone I already have and like? Well, because Apple wants to make money silly. I would even be ok with that, but now I am wondering how fun it will be to watch BarBri lectures on a 3.5 inch screen! This could be seriously bad. If any of you have taken the BarBri courses before, you know how awful those lectures are.
That pretty much ends my rant. Check out this funny video on how wonderful BarBri is.