The Hello and welcome to the Thinking Elsat Podcast, this is Ben Olson in Washington DC and with me here today is Nathan Fox in

San Francisco how you doing Nathan I'm great this is episode five already can't believe how quickly we're

racking them up yeah no this is fun so I guess just jumping right in you found an interesting our kind of funny article today right

You want to tell us a little bit about it? I did yeah well we're going to talk about two things

We're going to talk about this article that I found online because I think it really

applies to one else at concept that is important I think we can talk about and then after

that we're going to talk about my student Lisell who has

applied this cycle to eight or nine ten schools and she's waiting she's really kind of trying to decide what to do.

So I have all the schools where she got in and how much scholarships she got and

a bunch of questions from her about where she should go.

So we'll dive into that, I guess, after we talk about this article.

So the article, I'll post it to the show site but it basically just was an analysis of the

word natural as it's applied to food products and I found it to be really

interesting the the conclusion of the article was that the word natural means absolutely nothing when you see it on a package.

And I just thought that that was really applicable to the L-SAT because kind of contrary to something we talked

about in the last episode. In episode 4 we had Larkin on and Larkin was a great

guest but one thing that he said that I think you and I have been we had Larkin on and Larkin was a great guest.

But one thing that he said that I think you and I have been both

disagreed about a little bit is he was emphasizing

how a great education is almost necessary in order to do well on the test.

And I expressed a bit of skepticism about that because I don't consider myself to have a really terrific education

and I've done quite fine. I think it's that skepticism is exactly what has made me do well.

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