Ep. 241: Before You Take the LSAT with Doreen Benyamin

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The guys sit down with Columbia 3L and podcast host, Doreen Benyamin, to talk about what law school is actually like. Benyamin dishes the dirt on what matters in your 1L year, and let’s all y’all know what she wishes she knew before going to law school. Plus, Nathan and Ben help a listener think about how to incorporate their sports career into a personal statement, they consider some advice about how to recreate testing conditions at home, they read a letter from UC Hastings Dean Faigman, and they weigh in on a hypothetical decision between two law schools. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 241 of the Thinking Elsea Podcast in Los Angeles. I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia.
0:14.8	It is Ben Olson.
0:16.1	Ben, what's the latest?
0:18.0	Uh, got a trampoline.
0:19.8	Oh my God.
0:21.0	Okay, great.
0:22.0	So you got 911 on speed dial and you're ready for the any
0:26.9	any injuries yet minor injuries?
0:29.4	No not yet. Okay, knock on wood.
0:34.0	I mean, kids are injured at this moment in time, but not because of the
0:38.0	What did they do?
0:39.0	Uh, I actually, oh, I know.
0:42.0	So the youngest was playing football and caught it not quite the right way and
0:46.9	Pushed his thumb back, you know he had his like little sprain thing on for a day and then he took it off and I was like
0:53.8	whoa buddy where's that thing that's keeping you from like using your thumb he's like oh it's
0:58.0	fine look I can push it this far just yesterday I could only push it this far, kids are good at this kind of stuff.
1:05.0	They're good at this kind of stuff.
1:07.0	They push the limits of their injuries, which I think leads to faster recovery.
1:11.0	Okay.
1:12.0	Great. That sounds. Okay, great.
1:13.0	No, I'm serious.
1:15.0	That's true, right?
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