The Madness Begins

The lack of relaxing this past July 4th weekend is a glaring indication that my fun time is over...at least for the next four months.

LSAT prep began on Saturday with our first practice test, and it was an intense four hours, to say the least.  (It had also been a super long morning because I had a waxing appointment at 7 am.  Nothing like a bikini wax early in the morning to get you going for the rest of your day.)

Logic games were a killer, like everyone says they are.  Reading comprehension I think saved me.  I didn't score my test til Monday, but I found out I did alright...better than I'd originally thought.  If I can improve my score 20 points by October, I'm in the gold.  But 20 points!!  It's really time to hit the books.

Sunday, the magical day of fireworks...was chill during the day, only I had to go to taiko at night.  As brand new trainees all we did was sit and watch...and I didn't get to watch fireworks, but I'm not complaining too much.  It's always good to watch and learn...or try and learn, and I think just being there helps earn credibility.  You know, that whole put in the time and effort thing.  Plus, I got to see a few fireworks going on around the city when I went to see my mom at her office later that night.  Good to know there are still fireworks going on at 11 pm.

Then Monday!  Woke up super early to drive to the airport and do a drop off...then came back home and slept in for a bit.  Then 6-10 pm, LSAT class.  Our first formal class.  All in all, the class was just okay.  I think Blueprint prides itself a little too much on the novelty of what I'm going to call...modern humor.  Like, college humor I guess.  Our teacher is cool and all, but he tries a little too hard to be funny I think...and he's not even really the greatest teacher or anything.  Not even close.  Although he has a great success story of his own (180 on the LSAT, Harvard Law, now in LA trying to be a writer), I'm not sure he's going to give me any great moments of enlightenment or anything over the course of this class.  Plus it made me think of all the things Aya talks about with the way these prep courses teach standardized testing methods.

Anyway, it's a bearable thing overall and I think if I really apply myself I can learn a lot.  No doubt.  Plus if they keep hammering us with homework like this, I think I may get used to this logic games stuff.  I'm serio gonna need the work!

I would've liked to lounge around and do nothing all weekend...but I think I've done enough of that now.  It's back to work today for the week...plus more class and even more homework.

This is def going to take some getting used to.

I have though, in the bigger picture, decided to take ONE MORE year off.  Yes, so law school is postponed another year, for a total of 3 years between undergrad and LS.  Initially the idea was hard to deal with, but I think I'm beginning to see that it might be the best choice for me.

The reason is, taiko.  Big surprise, right?

I've been wanting to play with TP for so long that I think it would be an injustice to bar myself from really getting the full experience of playing with the group...and although the group isn't quite the same anymore, I still think there's so much that I can learn from my time with them.  Just one more year so that I can play with them for two...then it's off to law school for sure.

FOR SURE!

All the time I put into the LSAT this summer will make sure of that.  No doubts.  My mind is set and it will be done!