Ep. 167: The Impersonal Statement
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Even if you’ve got writing chops, it can be tough to write effectively about yourself. When the guys review a personal statement, that’s one of the first things they notice. […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 167 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast in Vienna, Virginia. This is Ben Olson. With me in |
| 0:16.3 | Smoky Los Angeles? Oh no, it's beautiful blue sky. San Francisco over the weekend was awful. |
| 0:25.4 | San Francisco was surrounded by smoke on all sides. |
| 0:29.0 | Okay. |
| 0:30.0 | It was actually really weird. |
| 0:33.2 | It was like burning your eyes and lungs and stuff. |
| 0:36.6 | Like I stayed inside for the weekend in San Francisco, |
| 0:39.2 | which I never do. |
| 0:40.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:41.5 | But now, back in LA, it's beautiful blue sky for some reason I thought the fires were in Southern California |
| 0:47.2 | All of the state of California is on fire basically but I live you know I live in a very urban place here and there's not fires close enough to the city of LA or the wind has just not, you know, shifted the wrong way. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. I remember last summer when all those big fires were in Santa Barbara I guess the wind was blowing south and we had like ash covering |
| 1:09.7 | with cars and stuff outside and it's really weird but no so far we have not gotten any |
| 1:16.0 | fires real close to here. Huh otherwise life is good. Life is beautiful I love I don't to talk about the weather, but I love wintertime in Los Angeles is the best time |
| 1:29.3 | of year in Los Angeles. |
| 1:30.8 | Like I went for a hike yesterday. |
| 1:32.4 | I had to wait, I had to like wait |
| 1:33.8 | during the day for it to cool down a little bit so that I could go. You know it was like |
| 1:37.8 | 76. I was like, eh, I'm wait for it to get a little cooler. I waited for it to get to like 71 before I went for my little |
| 1:45.3 | walk up the mountain. |
| 1:46.7 | Okay, yeah. Yeah, it's lovely. And then I had friends over for Dungeons and Dragons last night, |
| 1:51.0 | which is all Wizards delight. |
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