Ep. 281: LSAT Excuse of the Week

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Whether you’re prepping for the LSAT, or sitting for the LSAT, or getting ready to apply for law school, there are countless obstacles that can stand in your way. And as many obstacles there are—there are that many excuses for why things didn’t turn out as you’d hoped. On the flip side, if you’re prepared and cool as a cucumber, you can still perform under pressure and not pay for law school. Today the guys hear from a high-scorer who had an unfortunate Proctor U mishap, they weigh some advice about being a big fish in a small pond (will it be a pearl or a turd?!), they take a look at a claim that COVID may be causing some law schools to lose their accreditation, and they read “the excuse of the week” from their LSAT Demon classes. Plus, Nathan gives a brain teaser to Ben and the guys tackle another LR question from Prep Test 65.

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0:00.0	The following podcast uses language that would be ill-advised in a legal brief.
0:05.0	Hello and welcome to episode 281 of the Thinking Else that Podcast in
0:16.0	State Line Nevada. I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia, is Ben
0:20.5	Olson. Ben we have a new president of the United States.
0:24.8	I know it's crazy. It's a good feeling I have to say. It is a good feeling and it's weird because I
0:30.7	didn't particularly like Biden.
0:33.0	I wouldn't have voted for Biden if I had my druthers.
0:37.1	But the fact that he's appointing people to do various jobs and kind of going through the motions that I would
0:48.0	expect a president to go through is surprisingly more reassuring than I thought.
0:55.0	Absolutely.
0:57.0	I'm like, oh, someone's just like doing the job.
1:00.0	Like, we have enough problems as it is without trying to like foment problems right if I'm right
1:08.2	right use of that word but it's like okay let's just get people who, you know, you may disagree with their policy.
1:15.8	I don't know.
1:16.8	I don't even know a lot of these people's policies, but the fact that they seem competent and just trying to do the job is it supposed to be done is reassuring.
1:28.6	I couldn't agree more. The fact that it seems like he's just working and doing the job that he
1:37.2	Want you know campaign they campaign so hard for these jobs do everything they can to keep these jobs. It is nice to see that he's actually
1:45.4	doing the job. I mean, we, one day, we went to bed while, you know, the president of the United States is literally the biggest
1:55.1	dick in the world. Like he's just the biggest asshole in the world and then the next day,
2:01.6	that's not true anymore.
2:02.5	Now, oh, we have a just regular like seemingly nice human being.
2:10.9	Yeah, as opposed to the dude who was just like trying to burn everything down.
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