re: Calling MD's/Med Students

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I've taken pretty much every exam from 2008-February 16. I have submitted tests to my professors from school and they said I will do fine. I guess you will never feel 100% prepared but I'm so tired of studying I just want to get it over with.

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That's a good place to be. You don't want to be nervous - you want to be annoyed.

Remember, you only need to be smarter than the failure rate. I didn't take the LA bar so no clue on that one. The bar I took had a 75% passage rate. The girl that took the chair next to me had a ball of animal crackers wrapped in fricking aluminum foil that she would periodically (and noisily) unwrap and loudly munch on during the entire first day. At first I was extremely pissed but then realized she's definitely filling that 25% quota (who tha' frick wraps animal crackers in aluminum foil - repeatedly).

FWIW, my wife (who is also a professional) and I have been in a very high income stratosphere and then back down to less than usual college liberal arts undergrads then back up again (all since passing the bar) but our happiness has not had the same curve. We have struggled financially and been happy and had excess and been miserable. I'm not saying money doesn't matter - it sure of a hell does (and makes a lot of things easier) but it's the icing not the cake (unless you can't afford basic necessities, then it's all that matters).