Blind Prophecy

A couple of pieces of news today. Let’s keep it short and sweet with the awesome bulleted list format:

• So, remember that time when I tried to do 100 push-ups and ended up puking on the streets of San Francisco’s financial district in the middle of the day? It was like, a month ago or something. Anyway, I did it today. 100 push-ups in an hour, no vomit, plus several sets of planks and several minutes of aerobic jumping.
• My LSAT score is in. I walked away with a 169. I wanted to break 170 (and did on most of my practice tests leading up to the real test), so I’m a little disappointed, but not overly so. I’m not getting into Harvard, Stanford or Yale, but I’ve got an honest shot at anything else. Maybe a long shot in some cases, but I’m not out of the running yet.
  • I got a perfect score on logic games, though, which was my biggest struggle when I first started. 4 questions I missed because I’d narrowed it down to two choices and guessed the wrong one, so luck wasn’t on my side. I missed another question because I’m pretty sure I had the right answer, but marked the wrong bubble on the scantron.
  • Ironically, reading comprehension was my weak area, accounting for half of the 10 questions I missed – 3 coming from a single passage. This is ironic because I once got a perfect score on the reading portions of the ACT, and I was therefore correspondingly cocky about it. I spent the least time prepping for reading comp because I thought I had it in the bag.
• I was relating to Jen the story of the stupid volunteer buttons I redesigned at work 4 times to get an okay from the “design by committee/micromanaging” team from hell just before my LSAT scores came in. I was starting to beat myself up about not doing as well as I could have on the LSAT and Jen relied, “Remember the buttons. Are you changing the world making buttons? Or are you impacting peoples’ lives being their lawyer?” I’ve made a cute little sign for my cubicle wall that says “Remember the Buttons” with all 4 design incarnations lined up next to each other. What a pointless waste of my time and talent.
• We got dismissed from work early today for the holiday weekend. I think I’ll make a trip to Borderlands to see if I can’t convince them to take back some of the books I purchased from them and earn some money. If I do earn a few bucks, I might indulge in a movie. I’m thinking of seeing Hancock (yes, I know everyone hates it, but… superhero!).

Filed under: law school, personal, work by Jere Keys