Terror comes with a 39 cent stamp

Yikes! Talk about your frightening surprises. I just retrieved my mail and included with my Netflix selections for today was a little envelope from the Utah State Bar. It contained the month-to-go-before-the-exam instructions. It lists where to go and what to do for the test and gave a brief overview of the testing procedures. Admittedly it didn’t contain much I didn’t already know, but it was still a frightening reality check. The worst test of my life is just a month away! Is it too late to call the whole thing off and become a doctor?

There was one bright spot to the whole letter though that made it worth reading:

"Although the building is air conditioned, 100-degree weather, the large numbers of applicants, and the heat generated by laptop computers results in the test rooms becoming unavoidably warm as the day progresses... You will find the test room cool in the morning, but increasingly warm as the day progresses. Please dress accordingly."

Now correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this test only administered to people who have finished at least four years of college and three years of law school? Shouldn't you expect that such people would be intelligent enough to reason out that it's hot in Salt Lake City at the end of July? Maybe I should take comfort in the fact that the bar examiners think we're dumb enough not to understand basic concepts like weather and so will test us with similarly low expectations on our comprehension of legal concepts? I can always hope...