Category: Law

College Tips

It’s important to keep school preparation in perspective. Thank you ninja for providing the enlightenment I’ve been searching for!

Fairly balanced

Ever wonder if you’re left brained or right brained? Take a quiz here to find out.

Left brain dominant individuals are more orderly, literal, articulate, and to the point. They are good at understanding directions and anything that is explicit and logical. They can have trouble comprehending emotions and abstract concepts, they can feel lost when things are not clear, doubting anything that is not stated and proven.

Right brain dominant individuals are more visual and intuitive. They are better at summarizing multiple points, picking up on what’s not said, visualizing things, and making things up. They can lack attention to detail, directness, organization, and the ability to explain their ideas verbally, leaving them unable to communicate effectively.

My results, shown above: “Overall you appear to have fairly equal hemispheres.” Hmm. Apparently I also have 102% brain power, which bodes well for law school.

Giving your all

I’ve been reading up on success strategies for law school in my spare time. The following from Wentworth Miller may not be helpful in a class where your entire grade is based on your performance in ONE anonymous exam, but it is certainly relevant in the rest of the world:

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? Here’s a little math that might prove helpful:

If “A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z” is reprented as “1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26”

Then:

HARD WORK (8+1+18_4_23_15_18+11) = 98%
KNOWLEDGE (11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5) = 96%
BULLSHIT (2+21+12+12+19+8+9+2-) = 103% ... which, of course, is literally impossible, as the bullshit artist always fails to deliver.

Further:

ASS KISSING (1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7) = 118%

Now it’s official

It’s not really official until you send in your tuition deposit. This nice postcard arrived in the mail today, declaring that I am officially part of the 2010 class of Seattle University’s School of Law. Wow! Can you believe it? I’m sure the reality of this decision will become crystal clear on June 18th when classes start.

Back from vacation with big news

As my dad pointed recently, my blog has been seriously neglected over the last three weeks. A trip to England and Italy will do that, I suppose!

In the mean time, happy events were transpiring at home that will lead to big life changes for me in the very near future. All things in their time, however. I have a few things to wrap up before I feel comfortable announcing anything here. For those in the know, I will leave you with a hint about my current state of mind:

“There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.”
- Washington Irving