Working While in Law School (Ep. 431)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Law school is famously time-consuming. Many students consider quitting their jobs and relying on student loans for living expenses. In this week’s episode, Ben and Nathan discuss the feasibility of working while attending law school. The guys also help listeners decide when to register for the LSAT, and they shed light on the surprising similarities among differently ranked law schools.
1:10 - Word of the Week - Mistrust law schools’ machinations.
6:33 - Split Strategy - Nathan and Ben support listener Jackson’s “split strategy” to target official test dates in both the current and next cycle. The guys are confident that Jackson can shore up his performance in Logic Games by the February LSAT.
10:10 - Abandon LG? - LSAT Demon student Alexis has a weakness in Logic Games. Should she abandon LG and focus on preparing for the August 2024 LSAT? In any case, the guys counsel Alexis not to rush into the 2024 application cycle.
15:45 - Working While in Law School - Roughly 85% of part-time students and 40% of full-time students work while attending law school, according to the Law School Survey for Student Engagement. Nathan and Ben believe that law students should have no problem balancing work and school if they set priorities and practice good time management.
48:44 - Don’t Rush Your Retakes - Listener Angela has already taken the LSAT three times, scoring 141 each time. Ben and Nathan urge Angela not to retake until she’s happy with her practice test scores.
53:36 - Legal Research - The guys advise listener Natalie not to put much stock in the “research interests” of law school faculties. They also press Natalie to reconsider whether her career goals demand a JD.
57:45 - Undergrad Prestige - Undergrad prestige is a soft factor in law school admissions. It may matter a little on the margins, but it’s nowhere near as impactful as an applicant’s LSAT score and GPA.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 431 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. I'm Nathan Fox. With me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:13.2 | We are the co-founder of El-Sat Demon. |
| 0:15.0 | And the El-Sat Demon Daily Podcast. |
| 0:18.6 | You can be El-Sat Famous, share news and ask questions |
| 0:20.8 | on our website, thinking El-S.com or find us on social everywhere at |
| 0:24.8 | thinking Elsat. Monday December 11th 1 p.m. Eastern 10 a.m. Pacific Ben you're |
| 0:31.2 | teaching a free class that's going to be a all levels, logical reasoning class with beginning intermediate and advanced content in it? |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, but it's going to be primarily focused on intermediate students, so not beginner. |
| 0:45.0 | But yeah, it's free for everyone, so all you need is a demon free account. |
| 0:49.0 | Cool, go to L-Sat. |
| 0:51.0 | Link forward slash free if you would like to register for Ben's class, again, that's Monday, December 7th, |
| 0:57.0 | sorry, Monday, December 11th, 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 PM Eastern, |
| 1:00.6 | it's a totally free, is that a 90 minute class |
| 1:04.0 | uh... El sat class with Ben Olson |
| 1:06.7 | focusing on logical reasoning |
| 1:09.2 | yeah Ben you put this thing at the top of the show you want to read the quote and talk about why it |
| 1:14.3 | arrived on our agenda sure yeah so what I heard was the machinations surrounding |
| 1:20.6 | Sam Altman's recent ouster and subsequent reinstatement at Open AI |
| 1:27.2 | have sparked widespread debate in the tech industry. |
| 1:31.7 | Macinations to me has a negative connotation or a negative vibe with it, but I had to look it up. |
| 1:37.4 | I was like, what exactly are machinations? |
| 1:40.2 | Do you know? |
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