I'm in a bar in the S.F. Bay area, so of course my game isn't the one playing on the speakers. But I am enjoying all these 1st downs!
Whoo-hoo! Let's go!
Looking forward to taking part in this free seminar series! If you are thinking about applying to law school and want some helpful tips, come join us.
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Nice view of the Carquinez Bridge on my hike this morning. Enjoying the peace and quiet.
LSAT Tip: Practice tests are overrated. The real learning happens between those tests, in what you read, and how you review, and what you listen to. It's in your willingness to try something different.
Don't just practice. Study, change, and learn.
Be like Lulu. Take time to enjoy the sunshine.
#LSAT Tip: When an argument uses conditional premises (if/then statements), but then draws a causal conclusion (one thing leads to/produces/promotes/etc. another), use causal reasoning tools to pick apart the argument. The argument is causal, not conditional.
Artichoke hearts are delicious. They are reward at the end of all the hard work. Dipped in melted butter with a little salt and pepper, they are pure comfort food.
But I have a memory of eating them cold as a kid, with thousand island dressing. Anyone else try them that way? I think I liked it.
#LSAT Tip: Don't take the test before you're ready to get a score that will get you into a school you want to attend. If you're not ready for that, postpone. Don't use up one attempt for practice. Don't use the excuse that you already paid for it and don't want to waste the money.
January #LSAT scores are out today. Congratulations to everyone who met or exceeded their hopes or expectations! To those who did not, take a breather and then reset. This isn't the end of the journey, just one step along the way.
#LSAT Tip: Get yourself a study partner who looks at you like this.
#LSAT Tip: Assumption questions are about flaws in the argument. The author assumes the argument isn't flawed.
They overlooked an alternate cause? They assumed there wasn't an alternate cause.
They failed to consider that this could be an exception? They assumed it's not an exception.
Etc.
But that doesn't mean you should just reject it out of hand! Sometimes, albeit rarely, it's exactly what the argument did. Just be careful about that answer choice. Be skeptical when you read it, especially when it isn't what you predicted. And rethink that prediction if that's what you think it is.
Too many students leap at the overgeneralization answer on reflex, as if every argument is bad because the conclusion is too general. Don't make that mistake. There's usually something else wrong with the argument, and it isn't actually generalizing at all.
This is frequently confused for a part-to-whole flaw, where the evidence is about all the parts and the conclusion is about the group as a whole. All the members of a group are good, so it must be a good group, etc. That's not an overgeneralization.
#LSAT Tip: There are a number of common flaws that are used as wrong answers much more often than they are the right answer. High on that list is the overgeneralization, where the evidence is about only a few instances of a thing, and the conclusion is that all the cases are like those few.
I hang out in just one subreddit, and literally nobody is talking about Bluesky or X. They just all hate LSAC and want an inexpensive tutor.
Very snobby institution. No President has ever spoken at their commencement. No Supreme Court Justice has been invited to speak to the student body. They don't even allow visitors to sit in on their classes!
This #LSAT Tip is for the non-traditional students out there, the ones who've been out of school a while and maybe looking for a career change:
Do it.
You're not too old. One way or another, if all goes well, some day you'll be 85. You can be 85 and a lawyer, or 85 and not a lawyer. Your choice.
Very exclusive, extremely hard to get into. I've had dozens of students admitted to Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, etc., none of whom even got a response from Princeton.
Let's go Tigers! Very proud of the history of this great institution.
Can't believe it took me this long to figure out that the way to ensure that my doctor's office will return my call promptly is to get in the shower!
The January #LSAT is underway, and testing will continue through Saturday. Good luck to everyone around the world taking this test! Remain calm, breathe, and do what you practiced. If you do that, you win.
January #LSAT is this week. If you know someone taking it, be supportive.
Test-takers: pace yourself. Accuracy > Speed. Remember to breathe. Don't second-guess, don't overthink, keep it simple, and be confident.
Easier said than done, I know, but you have to try.
Interesting! That's the opposite of what someone once told me. The only Bubba I've ever known personally was the second child in his family, so I figured that matched my understanding and had to be correct.
My brother-in-law, Chip, whose actual name is a II instead of a junior, would endorse this.
Since you seem to know fun stuff like this, do you know if it's true that "Bubba" is generally a nickname for a male second child, aka Baby Brother? That's what I've always heard.
When you're stuck between two answers, it's not because they are both good. It's because there's something terribly wrong about one of them that you are missing. Find what makes one of the answers wrong, rather than trying to see what makes one of them better than the other.
#LSAT Tip of the Day.
#LSAT Tip of the Day:
Read.
Read the news. Read about science. Read about law. Read about humanities.
Read novels, and essays, and poetry.
Read everything.
First #LSAT Tip of the New Year:
Don't grind practice tests. In fact, most students don't need to take more than about 10 to 12 total PTs before taking the real thing, if that. It's what you do BETWEEN those tests, and how you learn from them, that really makes a difference.
You know you're getting old when the most exciting development of the new year is that your new prescription meds have arrived!
