Be afraid. Very Afraid.

Found this on Red and Blue. That pretty much sums everything up.

You're right to be scared.
Grades count. Big-time. Every first-year professor will tell you they don't matter. Just by being admitted here, you've won the game.
Bullshit. No one believes that. If grades didn't matter, why bother grading us? If grades don't matter, why do firms, judges, and future in-laws ask to see your law scshool transcript? Because grade count. Big time.If you'd gotten into Yale, then you would have won the game. They don't have grades. They don't need grades. Everyone already knows how smart they are. You got rejected from Yale. For us, the game continues. You need good grades. And I'm not gonna lie to you, I don't think you can pull it off. I don't think you have what it takes. Did you join a study group the first week in September? Did you brief every case, including the squibs? Did you start outlining by mid-term? Have you taken every available prior exam, including the unpublished ones? Did you go to office hours? Did you write out the answer to every example and/or explanation in Glannon?
Open-computer, open-book, open-notes? Don't mean jack shit. You've got three hours to answer three issue-spotters with between 8 and 12 issues per question. You've got three hours to write between 15 and 20 pages. You have no time to look back at your notes. Everyting must be memorized. Case-names. Dates. Venues. Dissenting judges. Procedural postures. And Jesus if you don't know the FRCP downfuckingcold by now, you can call back those 200 mail-merged resumes you just sent out and start applying directly to taxidermy school.
You don't belong here. Your classmates are all smarter than you. And better looking, too. I've seen you. You're fugly, and you'll probably never be loved.
There's only one hope. You've got to put your game face on. Show me your war cry. Make it happen. Always Be Closing. And don't leave home without your A Game. Grades count. Big time. And anyone who tells you diferently is trying to get an edge on you.