Like this!!! Mike Doughty's new album arrived yesterday. Very happy.
The State Department ended language testing for candidates pre-OA passage. Not sure what to think about it. Some people on the A-100 boards are running around thinking the dire-est. That this is the clearest sign that hiring is about to drop precipitously. They're probably right. Or it could just be budget-cutting.
Also, ran across this. The comments on this seem way overblown. I can't imagine any job that doesn't have its stretches of boredom/non-challenging moments. You should see me when it's time to grade the 1L's legal memo's.
Anyhow, hopefully we'll see some results soon. Whatever they may be.
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From the mouth of someone with an insider's perspective on this... the rationale behind the no-more-language-testing had more to do with how the pre-OA tests were skewing the types of people invited to OA and therefore to A-100. The last few years of classes were not as diverse as the service wants itself to be, everyone in POL and PD were getting in based on Chinese language points (for example). Also, giving pre-OA language bonuses in the exams process was inspiring a lot of "gaming" the hiring system, and that was showing in some of the personalities of candidates who were invited to OA.
That's good to know. Thanks so much for your insight.
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