And then after a sleepless night...

...you log on to the NYbarexam.org website to find out whether all the hard work paid off when you took the exam. You nervously enter your BOLE id number and your birthdate and wait for a screen to pop up with the results. There are a lot of words and you scan it looking for the winner... and then you finally read the first line, "The State Board of Law Examiners congratulates you on passing the New York State bar examination held on July 24-25, 2007." And then you read the next sentence, which is straight out of law school, cya 101, "Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this lookup screen, each applicant must rely on the official notification (via U.S. Mail) as to whether he or she has passed the examination."

HA.

Well, I'm going to have faith that they were accurate with my name and go celebrate that I passed the NY bar exam. And also, start studying for the Nevada bar exam since they, unfortunately, don't have any reciprocity. Such is life.