Secure Your Oxygen Mask First (Ep. 359)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
If you want to help others, you need to take care of yourself first. On today’s episode, Ben and Nathan advise a listener to focus on helping herself before becoming a non-profit family law attorney. Doing so will ultimately put her in a better position to help others. The guys give another listener tips on how to ease test-day anxiety. They discuss the benefits of taking a gap year—or several—before law school. Plus, they talk about part-time lawyering and the ups and downs of entrepreneurship. Finally, they share a thoughtful note from LSAT Demon tutor and rising 3L Matt, who will be graduating from law school without a penny of debt.
As always, if you like the show and want to get more from the Thinking LSAT community, check out the links below. You can connect with other folks studying for the LSAT and get more useful resources from Nathan and Ben.
5:15 - Test Day Anxiety
17:32 - Summer Associate Season
20:23 - When Should I Apply?
28:13 - GPA and Admissions Questions
49:26 - Part-Time Lawyer
1:00:13 - Graduating from Law School Debt Free
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 359 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast., on Ben Olson, that's Nathan Fox. |
| 0:13.2 | Together we're the co-founder of El-Sat Demon.com and the El-Sat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:19.1 | This is going to air on Monday, July 16th, 2022. |
| 0:23.5 | If you want to get on an upcoming episode, |
| 0:25.9 | email us today at help at thinkingelset.com. |
| 0:29.8 | We will get that is |
| 0:35.0 | is on Tuesday, July 17th. |
| 0:36.7 | So get on the show, tell us what you think. |
| 0:39.7 | We did a mail bag of questions today. |
| 0:42.3 | What do you think the main takeaway was, if you know the one that I the one that sticks out to me the most is that email from Yasenia. Okay. Yeah. Yesenia is somebody who went to college a little bit later in life. She only managed a 2.6 GPA while she was |
| 0:58.8 | wrangling her three kids and working at the same time. |
| 1:04.6 | She's a survivor of abuse. |
| 1:07.7 | She wants to go to law school to help people. |
| 1:11.0 | And she's getting bad advice from the school that she already went to. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | Telling her that she can get an MBA to get her GPA up for law school admissions, |
| 1:22.0 | which is fictional. |
| 1:24.1 | 100% false, okay? |
| 1:27.4 | And she's looking to get a job |
| 1:29.9 | as one of these nonprofit attorneys |
| 1:32.0 | who helped her get out of her abusive relationship and |
| 1:36.1 | file for divorce and everything. And you know she has like the best of intentions but the bulk of the middle of the |
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