The Bakersfield Effect

Oak Brook (my school) students who have made Bakersfield their Bar Prep home are now a perfect 7 for 7 on the California Bar Exam. Tim Swanson, Jeremy Swanson, Jesse Whitten, Clayton Campbell, Isaac St. Lawrence, Seth O'Dell and yours truly are the successful bar candidates.

Many ignorant people have attributed Bakersfield Bar success to a perceived lack of entertainment. Less distraction = higher bar passage rate is their rationale. Many others have attributed it to a desire to leave (and that a law license is their ticket out of town). But informed individuals take a different view.

"The character and commitment of the Bakersfield 7 (not a cinema complex. Only single cinemas are allowed in town) is of the highest caliber," stated a local recruiter for the Marine Corp, "I've never heard of the California Bar, but they will be a credit to any bar they enter."

Other leading citizens point to the fine bar prep precedents that the bachelor digs affectionately called "The Legal Pad"
established.

"It's all about getting the maximum out of your brain with proper exertion and relaxation," said Broken Chickens frontman Chickie Van Halen, "with the appropriate junk food eating techniques, the right movies watched, and proper hazing of each other, you to can pass the bar or be part of a successful band."

Self-help guru Timmy Robbins chimed in, "It's about being able to walk over the red hot Bakersfield earth barefooted without being burned," he said, alluding to the lack of an area shoe store, "with the confidence to do that, the Bakersfield 7 absolutely had to pass the bar. Failure wasn't a possibility."