type A (www……..) Tweak Out!
We are not sadists, per se, but every year around this time we enjoy the somewhat perverse pleasure of watching soon-to-be (possibly) lawyers try and break the internet as they await the results from their State Bar exams. Now, before you deride us for being insensitive or judgmental or snarky, etc, just relax…this site was shown to us by a few friends who are lawyers and suffered through the same grueling process as the kids today. If you know any law students, you know that a large majority of them are extreme type-A personalities, and many of their hopes and dreams are tied to whether they pass this test or not.
But here’s the fun: go to the website where kids await their scores and look at the bottom right of the page. You will see a counter that tracks the number of page views on the site. Click refresh. Do it every second. Do it every 10 seconds, whatever kind of test you like. What you will find is that the people going to this site are absolutely FREAKING OUT, about six visits per second. And the scores aren’t even released yet. One can just imagine the mess of nervously twisted Hammacher-Schlemmer catalogues strewn about midtown lofts across Texas as heavily-leveraged BMW’s sit in driveways, owners hoping they will have the scores to validate the jobs that will pay them to be only mildly in debt for the next 10 years. So, if you see a well put-together young lad or lass who looks like they have scoliosis from banging away at their refresh button for 9 hours like a caged monkey and their nails have been chewed to the quick, be supportive...offer them a (double) cappuccino or something. Oh, man, good times. OK, we gotta get back to our underachieving.
