in a daze i flipped through my copy of One L , desperately seeking for some corroboration with the horror and nerve-wracking stress i have been experiencing lately. i found near the middle of the book a passage that i had underlined about two years ago when i first read it:

Correlations between exam success and worthwhile achievements in the practice of law are speculative at best. Until that connection is better established, the narrow and arbitrary nature of exams will continue to dictate a narrow and arbitrary means of selection for training for the bar. And that is a particular state of affairs for a profession and an education which claim to concern themselves with rationality and fairness.

Word.