Bring your pen to the bar exam -- leave the laptop at home

Don't argue with your Advanced Writing Professor when she INSISTS that her students write the final exam using a blue ink pen and INSISTS that the students write neatly on every other line in the blue book.

And don't argue to her that technology has changed, so we should take our bar exam on a laptop. Your arguments will fall on deaf ears.

When your Professor stomps her foot down, remember she has your best interest at heart. At least this AW Professor has her students' best interests at heart.

Some students balked at taking her final by writing -- legibly, please -- in the old-fashioned bluebook.

"That's so nineties," she heard you argue. But she kept that foot planted firmly on the floor.

And now we read that some laptop New York exams were "lost" when the laptop software malfunctioned. What a scare. The story sent chills down my spine, while creating a smug smile across my face.

No one wants to face the prospect of sitting for that exam TWICE, not knowing if the FIRST score was a passing or failing grade.

The good news: not everything was lost.