Because I really am that narcissistic
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:31 pm
My cycle has been all sorts of crazy this year. To be honest, it's probably the most fitting way for me to enter law school. I was seriously considering applying for law school for this past fall at one point, but I thought that there was only the one October LSAT test and that I had missed it. Let's just say that I have a bizarre relationship with research.
I guess I need to explain my history with research. The first telling moment was in my Tae Kwan Do class when I was 6. My dad (apparently this is genetic) heard we had to break a board with a jump kick to get past the white belt stage. So, instead of finding out what KIND of board, my dad assumes it's a 2x4 and has me nearly breaking my little kid foot trying to put my still-growing foot bones through a plank of solid wood that could stop an arrow.
Needless to say, I retired from martial arts with a white belt thinking, "Truly, you have to be a mutant child to become a yellow belt."
I'll spare you the gory details until my next favorite mix-up with research in pharmacy school. Thankfully, this one was not my doing. My friend and I were doing a presentation for Physiology on the chemical reactions in the brain caused by caffeine. The presentation was not going that well, and the final blow came near the end. My friend had a picture of a brain on the powerpoint, and my teacher stopped us before saying, "You realize that's a rat brain right?"
We stared blankly at him for a few awkward moments before my friend replied, "We fail right?"
The whole class started laughing and we took our seats knowing that rat brains were now our enemies.
Anyway, back to law school. So, I graduated from my undergraduate school last May and searched for work for a few months before deciding to further my professional options with graduate school. My friends and I started up a convention in St. Louis that this year hosted 1750 geeks in one convention center. To this day, it still blows my mind how much we accomplished with the convention. Because of that convention, I decided to try to get an advanced degree in Event Marketing, but October rolled around and I realized that I had been spending less time worrying about the actual convention itself and more time worrying about our trademark and intellectual property situation. This little realization combined with my previous work in public access television made me decide to finally put some effort into researching the opportunities of law school.
I studied for the LSAT for a few days and ended up with an alright score of 161 on the December LSAT. I was happy with it, but I knew I could do better. So, I studied not harder but differently for the February LSAT and scored the 166 I am now using to shop around.
My applications so far have gone well for me, admittedly.
Drexel gave me $60,000 in scholarship money.
Southern and Northern Illinois both gave full rides
Depaul just gave me $45,000 in scholarship money.
Miami accepted me but the money well was dry.
I'm still waiting to hear back from:
Baylor
Lewis and Clark
San Diego
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
As of right now, I'm torn. Drexel was amazing to me during the ASD. I was blown away by the enthusiasm at the school and the enthusiasm shown by the law firms who take part in the Drexel Co-op program.
Still, I'm an Illinois resident and being an Illinois law student is something of a fantasy for me. On top of that, I'd love to end up at Iowa or Indiana too.
Anything can happen still. Tomorrow, Illinois should be sending their decision to me. I'm praying for swift mercy or a miracle. We'll see. I'll try to keep this updated.
I guess I need to explain my history with research. The first telling moment was in my Tae Kwan Do class when I was 6. My dad (apparently this is genetic) heard we had to break a board with a jump kick to get past the white belt stage. So, instead of finding out what KIND of board, my dad assumes it's a 2x4 and has me nearly breaking my little kid foot trying to put my still-growing foot bones through a plank of solid wood that could stop an arrow.
Needless to say, I retired from martial arts with a white belt thinking, "Truly, you have to be a mutant child to become a yellow belt."
I'll spare you the gory details until my next favorite mix-up with research in pharmacy school. Thankfully, this one was not my doing. My friend and I were doing a presentation for Physiology on the chemical reactions in the brain caused by caffeine. The presentation was not going that well, and the final blow came near the end. My friend had a picture of a brain on the powerpoint, and my teacher stopped us before saying, "You realize that's a rat brain right?"
We stared blankly at him for a few awkward moments before my friend replied, "We fail right?"
The whole class started laughing and we took our seats knowing that rat brains were now our enemies.
Anyway, back to law school. So, I graduated from my undergraduate school last May and searched for work for a few months before deciding to further my professional options with graduate school. My friends and I started up a convention in St. Louis that this year hosted 1750 geeks in one convention center. To this day, it still blows my mind how much we accomplished with the convention. Because of that convention, I decided to try to get an advanced degree in Event Marketing, but October rolled around and I realized that I had been spending less time worrying about the actual convention itself and more time worrying about our trademark and intellectual property situation. This little realization combined with my previous work in public access television made me decide to finally put some effort into researching the opportunities of law school.
I studied for the LSAT for a few days and ended up with an alright score of 161 on the December LSAT. I was happy with it, but I knew I could do better. So, I studied not harder but differently for the February LSAT and scored the 166 I am now using to shop around.
My applications so far have gone well for me, admittedly.
Drexel gave me $60,000 in scholarship money.
Southern and Northern Illinois both gave full rides
Depaul just gave me $45,000 in scholarship money.
Miami accepted me but the money well was dry.
I'm still waiting to hear back from:
Baylor
Lewis and Clark
San Diego
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
As of right now, I'm torn. Drexel was amazing to me during the ASD. I was blown away by the enthusiasm at the school and the enthusiasm shown by the law firms who take part in the Drexel Co-op program.
Still, I'm an Illinois resident and being an Illinois law student is something of a fantasy for me. On top of that, I'd love to end up at Iowa or Indiana too.
Anything can happen still. Tomorrow, Illinois should be sending their decision to me. I'm praying for swift mercy or a miracle. We'll see. I'll try to keep this updated.