Ep. 211: What’s the Deal with Law School Prep Courses?
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2019
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
The September ’19 LSAT is finally behind y’all, but the Thinking LSAT crew never rests. LSAT questions continue to come in, and the guys settle in for a well-rounded episode of news, updates, and listener questions.
Nathan and Ben answer questions about reading comp and whether you should attend a law school prep course. They also take a look at an email from Maine Law and a listener-submitted personal statement. Plus, the guys talk about why Ben is perpetually tired, hear from a long-time fan now 2L, and they correct an error from a previous episode. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 211 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast in Napa, California. I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia. Ben Olson, |
| 0:16.2 | what's happening, Ben? I'm a little tired today. What's up with that? You're |
| 0:20.4 | telling me you're tired every time now you're supposed to be like the superior |
| 0:23.8 | human who takes perfect care of himself and is never tired. |
| 0:29.2 | Yeah did I mention that before? |
| 0:31.1 | Geez that's not good. |
| 0:32.1 | I was not even |
| 0:33.0 | even aware of that no it's part of our routine now pretty much every |
| 0:36.7 | morning that we recorded the podcast you tell me you're tired |
| 0:40.1 | that's not good I'll work on it. I'll dig in. I'll try to become more |
| 0:47.1 | self-aware of my own perpetual tiredness apparently. Geez. Yeah I've been sleeping I've been sleeping like 11 hours a night. |
| 0:56.5 | What? I don't know what's going on I just go to bed and just never get up. I've been going to bed early |
| 1:01.9 | and I just like sleep and sleep and sleep and |
| 1:04.4 | sleep and I never ever get up. I got up all of 15 minutes before our |
| 1:08.0 | podcast today. I can grab myself. You slept that whole time? Mm-hmm. |
| 1:13.0 | Yep, I just like, yeah, I just, I don't know. |
| 1:16.4 | I don't know what it is. |
| 1:17.3 | Maybe it's the change in the weather or something, starting to feel like fall here in Napa just feels time to be like cozy I don't know I don't |
| 1:26.0 | know what's going on okay cool man that's great yeah I'll send you some of my kids |
| 1:30.6 | how does that sound no I don't need those I got a I got a nice little |
| 1:36.8 | you don't need those things I do not need any of those I'm out I'm not signed up for that program. I did just hang out with my |
| 1:45.9 | buddy's kids. Here I came to visit my friends here in Napa. They have two boys and a dog. So I had a very domesticated time. Yesterday I took the dog for a walk and just hung out at dinner with the boys played video games with the boys yeah so you got a |
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