After reading the postings of a great blogger, I decided to give it a try myself. Everyone else has to hear my rantings, so I figured I would give the rest of the world a chance to tell me I am crazy or a loose cannon.
One of the postings on Confessions of an Exhausted Mind's site discussed the graduation process for IUI grads. Though I am not a student, I am the wife of one. I agree that when we graduated from IUB, there were very few hoops to jump through to receive our diplomas. This time around, however, I have helped file more paperwork than I had to to become an EMT. I have dealt with Notories, BMV, fingerprints, and post offices to the point of insanity. Most of these hoops to me are just the Bar Association way of testing stress tolerance from the already stressed students. They want all this information a few weeks before finals. Therefore, students are not only trying to prepare for finals and deal with exit interviews (yet another ridiculous hoop), they must also fill out Bar Apps, take the MPRE, ride professors for recommendation letters, as well as find employement because thier financial aid is about to run out. Yes, it is a stressful time for students. Try being their spouse. We deal with those same stresses with them PLUS the stress of them being stressed. I think spouses and parents of law students deserve diplomas too. We have helped study, driven to moot court, been jurors, helped carry $700.00 worth of books home from the bookstore every semester, and tried our best to encourage when hope feels lost. So, my request to you, if you are a student, go home, hug your spouse, give him or her a backrub, say thanks, and promise they can retire from thier crappy jobs once you become the ADA for Marion County.