Personal Statement Blitz (Ep. 311)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
By popular demand, the guys spend yet another episode shredding listener personal statements. It’s that time of year. This week, six brave participants will each have their personal statement read and critiqued for 10 minutes—on the clock. Nathan and Ben remind our listeners that, often, the first step to construction is demolition. Learn what to do and what not to do on your statement by listening to their feedback. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | If you're offended by the words on this podcast, you'll be mortified by the words in the legal profession. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 311 of the Thinking Else that Podcast. |
| 0:16.2 | Today on the show, we did another personal statement, |
| 0:19.9 | extravaganza, personal statement, Palusa, |
| 0:22.6 | we need another name, personal statement, jamboree. |
| 0:27.1 | I don't know. |
| 0:27.7 | We did six personal statements. |
| 0:29.8 | I had a timer going, and we did 10 minutes apiece. What was that? A personal statement, Blitz. a |
| 0:33.7 | personal statement blits kind of personal statement blitz kind of personal statement blitz yeah yeah |
| 0:37.5 | that's what we did today ten personal statements they all had many problems. |
| 0:44.0 | Hopefully you can learn what not to do by these examples that we went through today. |
| 0:50.3 | Thank you by the way, everybody who submitted, thank you for being brave enough to subject yourself to this process. |
| 0:58.0 | We, it's tough love. |
| 1:02.0 | The first step of construction is frequently demolition. |
| 1:05.8 | And these all needed some demolition done to them. |
| 1:09.8 | So hopefully, hopefully all six of our contributors learned something that can help them as they move forward |
| 1:18.2 | into a new draft. |
| 1:21.8 | Anything else you want to say about that? |
| 1:23.0 | That's it. |
| 1:24.0 | Okay. |
| 1:25.0 | This show is going to air on Monday, August 16th. |
| 1:28.0 | That means that we're right in the middle now of the August L-SAT. |
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