maarmie's musings

Thursday, September 28, 2006

I'm still alive

The LSAT is in a few days. I'm taking Friday off for some last last minute reviewing and relaxation. These days, I've been doing nothing but taking full-length sample tests. Consistently, I have been scoring in the upper 150s - which is just the better side of AVERAGE.

AVERAGE? Who wants to be AVERAGE? AVERAGE won't get me into UM Ann Arbor. AVERAGE won't get me a scholarship. AVERAGE won't have anyone clamoring to accept me. WTF? I really expected better out of myself and will likely vomit every morning until the day of the test just like I did this morning. No food. Just burning liquid from the stomach. Yum. My favorite.

I hate feeling like the last month has been a waste, but I wonder how I would be doing on the practice tests had I not studied so much. I had a minor breakthrough with a certain type of question last week that is allowing me to answer more of that type of question correctly and am hoping I have a similar breakthrough somewhere else in the next couple of days. I tried out the June 2006 LSAT and found that the reading comprehension portion was harder than I had previously encountered. I also found that logical reasoning questions on the actual tests are easier than any I had encountered while studying.

Wish me luck.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

GOOD LUCK! Or conversely, BREAK A LEG! I am rooting for you!

Anonymous said...

Luck!

Anonymous said...

Oh, and thanks for the link! ;)

Annie said...

You do put pressure on yourself, don't you?!?!

From reading your blog posts and learning how smart and clever you are, I have a lot of confidence in your ability to get into law school.

I wonder if I have more confidence in your ability than you do?

Diana said...

Knock 'em dead!

ceci n'est pas mon nom said...

"Et merde pour ton test!" as they say (rather oddly, I grant you)here in France.

maarmie said...

And shit for your test? Am I translating it correctly?

Why....um, thank you?

ceci n'est pas mon nom said...

Yep, that's it! I never understood it either, really, to be honest, but there you have it: to say "merde" to someone ahead of an important "épreuve" is far more boosting a form of encouragement than a simple, constipated, "bonne chance". (I'm talking of popular registers here: can't imagine Jacques saying it to Bernadette. Although ...) And compared with other, more quantitatively- and qualitatively-explicit expressions, a single "merde" can even count as being relatively restrained ...