After learning of the news of passing the bar and with a couple weeks for it to settle in, I'm starting to hear new cliches that I was not privileged to be previewed until now.

After graduation, I heard what sounded like mocking birds giving bar advice saying to forget everything you learned in law school and re-learn BAR law. Before then, you had to forget all the movies you watched as a kid about being in law school or being an attorney (see Top 10 Movies to Watch While in Law School). Now, those same mocking birds are telling me to forget what I learned in law school, forget what you learned while studying for the bar, and basicaly humble up, becuase "you don't know anything about the law." Ouch.

On June 5, 2008, I'll be officially sworn in to be authorized to practice law, yet it is like starting from scratch all over again. I guess that is life; that is, starting and ending different phases of life while entering something new. It may be that one's young ambition to enter the "real world" as soon as possible is not necessarily about getting all the "cash money" but being able to be an expert and professional in one area of life that sets yourself apart from all of the Jacks of all trade. This new stage after passing the bar is no doubt different than studying for the bar, different than law school, and different than my undergrad, but at the end, same old, same old. Have I entered the real world? Not yet. We will see two, three years from now when I should be able to say: "I'm an expert and a professional."