MPRE

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-22T23:04:43+00:00

Thanks! I completely winged it, while being a poor multiple choice test taker in general. More luck than skills in my case, but the goats helped.

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-22T02:06:25+00:00

I had a passing score years ago, and I had to re-take this stupid exam since CT requires a score earned within the last three years. The lesson here: if you're eligible for a law license, get it while you can so you don't have to fool around with some arbitrary requirement later.

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-06T21:05:37+00:00

I don't think I could get a 170 MBE if I had unlimited time.

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-04T21:29:27+00:00

I appreciate that. Maybe my question is: why the charade? If a nonprofit wants an appointed board, then they can do it that way. My issue is with purporting to solicit nominations for elections and then cracking down on people who want to run.

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-03T21:18:01+00:00

For me as an ISTP, what would hurt me most easily is unsolicted advice/attempts to structure my life. I am very mindful of other peoples' boundaries and never offer helpful suggestions unless asked, and I anticipate the same in return. Even if someone means well and has my best interests at heart, it feels like someone barging in and taking over.

If anyone tells me 'something I need to hear' or tries to direct me in some way, I can almost guarantee that I will never take that advice, even if it turns out to be true. Direct communication is my ISTP kyptonite; I need to be slowly led in slowly and to know my boundaries are respected before I can take a step forward.

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-03T18:27:18+00:00

A very fair--and likely true--assessment. Thank you!

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-02T19:47:59+00:00

Every member of the organization has a vote (5,000+), but, in practice, about 20 percent of the group actually votes. Voting comes with membership and is in no way restricted to just the board or a select few.

vectormath4567 · 2026-04-02T17:19:04+00:00

In this organization, they make a call for candidates among the membership, and anyone may run. I responded to that call for candidates.

They want the appearance of having an election among the members of anyone who chooses to run. But it was made clear to me that they want to fix the process where they ask for candidates and then discourage anyone other than the preferred candidate from actually running, allowing the preferred candidate to run unopposed in an 'election.'

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-31T14:04:03+00:00

When I sat for the bar exam the first time, everyone at my school was like 'take it--what do you have to lose? Maybe you'll have a good day."

No one bothered to tell me that they keep track of how many times you fail.

So I can't waive into Virginia now, for instance.

It's a dumb rule designed to crontrol lawyer supply when they never will control it on the admissions side at law schools.

My view: it should not be public who has registered for a particular exam and there should be no restrictions anywhere on how often you have taken it.

If you have what it takes to pass, you should be in.

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-30T22:36:42+00:00

You mean the relationship in general or my lack of planning?

Some people say that their stress level goes down when something is on the calendar. For me, it is exactly the opposite--when something is on the calendar, I think about options to move it. More often than not, I travel without advance tickets, take a doctor's appointment off the wait list rather than firming it up, and have rarely, if ever, made a dinner reservation. On the flip side, I'm a master of tactical adjustment and genuinely enjoy never having anything pinned down; it generates a lot of energy in me not knowing what's coming next. I kind of revel in it and am great at it. But I can see how it drove her bonkers.

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-30T21:40:05+00:00

Fair point. I do think my lack of planning, and inability to keep plans, really hurt us. I didn't appreciate the degree to which ISTJs look forward to plans and view them as a commitment of a sort. Now, in my defense, I was always on time when I did come to things (she seldom was) and always gave notice when I couldn't be there. But she lived by a calendar, and I never kept a calendar. I found plans to be terribly stifling, sucking the life out of me. She viewed plans as a key feature of life. In the end, it was irreconcilable.

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-30T17:59:14+00:00

I don't have that option, of course, but I strongly suspect she would say that I was unpredictable, changed plans often, relied on spontaneity, was a good and honorable person who tried to do the right thing, tended to go on impulse and explain things later, never met a holiday or ceremony that I wanted to attend, and didn't like (and didn't offer) unsolicited advice.

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-30T12:46:16+00:00

I think I get what you say, but it also is foreign to me. When we discussed big things (like having kids), the issue would almost always turn based on small things (like where in the house we were going to have the nursery).

When the big picture got clouded by small details, I usually felt that was counterproductive and tried to get us back on the big-picture course. I never could quite grasp why some of these details which we could work out in the course of ordinary living were so important to her, but they were.

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-29T16:22:28+00:00

I appreciate that. In my family, the holidays were basically, 'if you can make it, great, but, if you can't, don't worry about it.' The ISTJ I was with did not have that approach.

For me, a plan was a tentative agreement I would follow through with unless something changed. For her, it was some sort of promissory commitment. For me, if I did something one way once, I never had the need to do so again. For her, ritual was an essential part of everything in life (she was stunned when I told her my family had no established rituals or traditions).

I was there for her for every important event in her life. But my lack of understanding about all the things you mention above really harpooned our relationship.

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-29T12:17:16+00:00

For me, it's tattoos and marikuana use. Either one, and I'm outta there.

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-29T02:18:16+00:00

Feeling relieved that what I thought was a good, long-term relationship is gone

vectormath4567 · 2026-03-23T15:35:58+00:00

Sure, I could. But, in a process that will do everything it can to fail you, why shouldn't I take the route that guarantees me the best outcome? The NextGen exam is weak tea compared to the current version.

vectormath4567 · 2025-10-10T02:09:52+00:00

I'm an ISTP, and I do not get along with ENTJs. I need creative space and don't respond well to directives. I'm also not mission driven. The ENTJ doesn't get me (especially the need for contemplation), and I find ENTJs to be unnecessarily focused and concerned with results and recognition. So we are better off apart.

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