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i climbed a mountain and i turned around
Never underestimate the power of distraction. LSAT studying is an especially good tool for that. I am determined to do well to make up for my mediocre GPA, so determined in fact that I went out and bought another review book today, the Kaplan 180. I'm already feeling the mental burn after a few hours with logical reasoning, but in that good way. But then I decided to try a few logic games, seeing as they're usually my strongest area, and quickly regretted it; if the logic games on the real LSAT were all as hard as those in the Kaplan 180 I'd bomb.
At least with logical reasoning, the Kaplan 180 does a better job than Barron's of helping me see what kinds of mistakes I'm making. It's typically the formal logic questions that do me in. With the rest of them, I've gotten much better at spotting the trigger words and the typical forms of faulty reasoning and so I've gotten stronger for the most part. But formal logic kills me. Does this mean I'll be a crappy lawyer? I really don't care if it does.
I spent awhile tonight requesting information and applications from the law schools I'm applying to. It's very early still but I'd rather get started this summer than wait until I'm in Eureka with a full time job and adult-type responsibilities and an ironing board. And a coat rack. I probably won't have a bed in my apartment but I will have a coat rack, damn it.
It's so strange how different it is to apply to law school than college. The technical process is much the same but my reasons for applying to schools are completely different. With college it was all how liberal is it and what does it FEEL like and how pretty is the campus and other very superficial things that I think were nonetheless important considerations for me, personally. With law school though it's all about location - cities I can stand - and whether they offer decent criminal law programs and externship opportunities and the big one, can I get in with my aforementioned mediocre GPA.
But I've narrowed it down to about 8. I may drop one and add another extra-safety. But so far there're three in Chicago, two in San Francisco, one in Portland, Oregon, one in Baltimore, and one in Philadelphia. I'm going to do a trip to Baltimore and Philadelphia this summer because they're close and I can do it in a weekend. San Francisco I will obviously be visiting when I go see L and E when I'm living in Eureka. I was going to fly out to Chicago for a day or two, too, but the rates when I just checked, which were about $150 a couple of months ago, are now $250, and the extra hundred I cannot justify. So. Will possibly go to school in Chicago without ever having been there before, not counting the airport, and a skyline-sighting when L and I drove cross country last year.
I don't know, even, why I'm so fixated on Chicago anyway, except that I've heard it's a great city and it's got the kind of grit I like. It's not claustrophobically populated like San Francisco or Manhattan either. I could conceivably affort to live there.
But it's cold. And it's hot. I don't know, I think a year in northern California is wise; I'll know once and for all if I'm destined for perpetually moderate temperatures, or if I'm bound to live out my life with climactic extremes.
At least with logical reasoning, the Kaplan 180 does a better job than Barron's of helping me see what kinds of mistakes I'm making. It's typically the formal logic questions that do me in. With the rest of them, I've gotten much better at spotting the trigger words and the typical forms of faulty reasoning and so I've gotten stronger for the most part. But formal logic kills me. Does this mean I'll be a crappy lawyer? I really don't care if it does.
I spent awhile tonight requesting information and applications from the law schools I'm applying to. It's very early still but I'd rather get started this summer than wait until I'm in Eureka with a full time job and adult-type responsibilities and an ironing board. And a coat rack. I probably won't have a bed in my apartment but I will have a coat rack, damn it.
It's so strange how different it is to apply to law school than college. The technical process is much the same but my reasons for applying to schools are completely different. With college it was all how liberal is it and what does it FEEL like and how pretty is the campus and other very superficial things that I think were nonetheless important considerations for me, personally. With law school though it's all about location - cities I can stand - and whether they offer decent criminal law programs and externship opportunities and the big one, can I get in with my aforementioned mediocre GPA.
But I've narrowed it down to about 8. I may drop one and add another extra-safety. But so far there're three in Chicago, two in San Francisco, one in Portland, Oregon, one in Baltimore, and one in Philadelphia. I'm going to do a trip to Baltimore and Philadelphia this summer because they're close and I can do it in a weekend. San Francisco I will obviously be visiting when I go see L and E when I'm living in Eureka. I was going to fly out to Chicago for a day or two, too, but the rates when I just checked, which were about $150 a couple of months ago, are now $250, and the extra hundred I cannot justify. So. Will possibly go to school in Chicago without ever having been there before, not counting the airport, and a skyline-sighting when L and I drove cross country last year.
I don't know, even, why I'm so fixated on Chicago anyway, except that I've heard it's a great city and it's got the kind of grit I like. It's not claustrophobically populated like San Francisco or Manhattan either. I could conceivably affort to live there.
But it's cold. And it's hot. I don't know, I think a year in northern California is wise; I'll know once and for all if I'm destined for perpetually moderate temperatures, or if I'm bound to live out my life with climactic extremes.
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