Ep. 298: I am. I did. I do.

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

It’s the start of personal statement season for students who are applying to law school this fall. If you’re struggling to organize your story or don’t know where to begin, Nathan and Ben offer up an easy-to-follow strategy. Break it down into three basic parts: I am. I did. I do. The guys also answer another Logical Reasoning question from PrepTest 73, take a look at an article about law school debt, answer questions from the listener mailbag, and discuss the perils of mixing alcohol with LSAT prep. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains bad language.
0:03.0	Not bad at language, like Trump's lawyers.
0:07.0	Bad language, like naughty words.
0:09.0	Cover your ears, I guess. Yes. So 298 of the Thinking Elsat podcast. Today on the show we talked about,
0:24.9	what did we talk about at the very beginning?
0:26.1	I already forgot.
0:26.7	Oh, your personal statement advice.
0:28.5	My lesson of the week, which you can get, by the way,
0:31.1	at thinking Elsat.com slash slash demon you can sign up for our so
0:36.2	far I think I'm like 14 in a row Thursdays this email lesson has been coming
0:41.9	out and Ben really liked this one about it's just one way to write a personal statement
0:48.7	not the only way but if you're stuck it's kind of personal statement time a year in May right now.
0:55.1	People looking to get their applications in in September.
0:59.7	It's not necessary that you start your statement now, but if you want to get a head start on it when you're on a break from L-Sat studying
1:06.6	this newsletter that I wrote might help you just get unstuck on how to write a personal statement.
1:14.6	Yeah, yeah, sign up for that. Then we talked about law school debt and we also talked about someone who was debating taking on that debt versus not taking on that debt and it seems so obvious that they should not.
1:32.0	Thank you, Sarah for writing in with your choice
1:35.3	between University of Wisconsin, Madison, and UT,
1:38.7	Austin.
1:40.3	You're, Sarah is like, super on the fence fence and Ben and I have a hundred percent agreement
1:46.8	Exactly what she should do which is basically don't pay for law school, but we got a long discussion on all those issues.
1:55.0	Yeah, and we talked about your commitment to sobriety coming to an end soon.
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