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Past Blast
Looking at Bar applications means looking at your past. It's something I don't do that often, really, and wow, what a crazy trip. I've apparently lived at 19 different addresses during my life, but only 16 of those have been since I turned 18. Why does the Bar care about all my addresses since I was 18? Does anyone know?
It's a bit of a challenge to try to track down addresses like this. For example, when I spent a school year on student exchange in Tampere, Finland, I just lived in what to me was a dorm. I know I had an address, but I have no idea what it was. A little research reveals that it must have been Pellervonkatu 9 (“katu” means “street” in Finnish, but the rest I have no idea) because that's the address for Uusi Domus (new dorm). Just seeing that picture sort of makes me heartsick and it's not even a very good picture. (I have wished a thousand times that I had been doing my photo-a-day project while I was in Finland. Now that would have been cool.)
My time in Finland was more than 10 years ago now and even though that's a long time, the distance between then and now seems more like a million years and miles. If you had told me then, in 1994, that in 2006 I would be graduating from a law school in Washington, D.C. I probably would have hurt myself I would have laughed so hard. Or maybe I would have punched you for insulting the future me like that. I don't know. I certainly wouldn't have believed it. I'm not sure I do now even though that very event is supposedly just months away.
Life truly is stranger than fiction. Truly.
Posted January 23, 2006 07:43 PM | 3L
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Remember last year that I told you that you could get in a lot of living in a few years if you really put your mind to it? It sounds to me like you've done your share!
Good luck with the bar application (it's something *I'm* not looking forward to, I'll tell you. Talk about someone who doesn't really want to look backward too much...)
Posted by: Denise at January 23, 2006 08:32 PM
It sounds like you have to go WAY back. The Illinois bar requires the last 10 years OR back to when you were 18.
My big problem with addresses isn't the street names or, in most cases, the street numbers, but apartment numbers. I've lived in at least one each of a #101, 102, 103 and 104. But I don't remember which ones were which.
Posted by: kristine at January 23, 2006 08:42 PM
