Don’t Die with Your Debt (Ep. 360)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Law school can leave you with a lifetime of debt if you aren’t careful. On today’s episode, Nathan and Ben discuss a cautionary tale of a recent law school graduate who is $347k in student debt and can’t find a job. He thought that attending law school would set him up for a comfortable future. Instead, he’ll likely be in debt for the rest of his life. The guys implore listeners not to make the same mistake. Don’t pay for law school. They also answer a full mailbag of listener questions about how to structure your study schedule, whether testing accommodations are fair, and how high-scoring students achieve a deeper understanding of the LSAT.
As always, if you like the show and want to get more from the Thinking LSAT community, check out the links below. You can connect with other folks studying for the LSAT and get more useful resources from Nathan and Ben.
4:16 - Pearls vs. Turds
9:23 - Ideal Implementation Granularity
13:00 - Advice for High-Scoring Students
21:11 - Are Accommodations Fair?
28:06 - Balancing a Study Schedule
37:58 - Tautology
40:00 - Advice for Non-Native English Speakers
46:26 - Value Zero
56:47 - From 157 to 180
58:11 - Stuck in the 150s
1:05:24 - Can I Improve by 40+ points?
1:13:16 - Don’t Expect Law School to Be Interesting
1:19:28 - Unemployed and $347k in Debt
1:24:40 - Some Friendly Bad Advice
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to episode 360 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. I'm Nathan Fox that's been Olson. |
| 0:12.0 | Together we're the founders of Elsat Podcast. I'm Nathan Fox that's been Olson together. We're the founders of |
| 0:13.7 | Elsat demon.com and Elsat demon daily podcast. You can always be |
| 0:19.8 | Elsat famous you can email help at thinking Elsat.com to get on an upcoming show. |
| 0:26.3 | This one's gonna air on Monday, July 25th. |
| 0:29.9 | That means you have one day to decide whether you want to register for the September |
| 0:35.3 | September 2022 L-SAT. I still don't know why these registration deadlines are so |
| 0:39.2 | damn far away from the test. That makes not a lot of sense to me. But anyway, you've got to decide tomorrow |
| 0:47.0 | whether you want to register. Basically, are you happy with your practice test scores? |
| 0:50.8 | If you are, register. If you're not happy with your practice test scores, if you are registered. If you're not happy with your practice test scores, probably don't register. |
| 0:57.0 | You know, if you're within five points or something like that, then maybe register on the theory that you're going to improve that five |
| 1:06.1 | points by the time you get there. |
| 1:08.1 | But if you're 15 points away, you shouldn't be hoping for miracles. |
| 1:12.0 | You really should just wait to register until you've done the work. |
| 1:15.0 | You can go to L-Sat.link. |
| 1:17.0 | forward slash dates if you would like to see all of the upcoming deadlines. |
| 1:22.0 | Come to my free classes. |
| 1:25.0 | On Thursday, July 28th, I'm doing a class called |
| 1:29.6 | Do Law School rankings matter. |
| 1:32.9 | You can go to Elsat. link forward slash Nathan |
| 1:36.0 | to register for that class. |
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