#february lsat

[hawkeyefrommash]

seeing the friends from my program who were on the part time program going to in person graduation this week has been so difficult. mine was delayed and ultimately i couldn't go, and if i had gone none of my family would've been there. all i have to show for graduating with my masters is the degree that i got in the mail one day, entirely unceremoniously. i think this has been the drive i have to do another program, to keep in academia until i've done something i'm proud of and that i'm able to attend the graduation for. if i'd had the choice i wouldn't have gone to my undergraduate graduation.

[sunnys-out]

Welcome Home | Katrina Gorry

A/N: Hello, I'm alive. Sorry, I have been busy again with LSAT prep, work, and all that good stuff. Hope y'all enjoy it as much as I had writing it.

(20. And I… I still love you, even after all of this time) from here

Warnings: familial death, panic attack symptoms, mentions of homophobia from family

WC: 2551

November 2023 Sweden

The cold air nipped at my nose as I stood still in front of the gate leading to the home. 

My feet shifted in the snow with a crunch. My hands shook, from nerves, as I move to cover my chest more to protect her from the cold. The home in front of me was familiar yet so new to me. 

I look down at the door to the once loose gate.

“Huh…she did end up remembering how to fix the gate” I thought.

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February 2018, Utah

The bags of groceries hit the counter top with a thud as I yelled toward Katrina, who remained struggling to lock the front door.

“You know this wasn’t what I had planned for us for Valentine’s Day you know…but hey we can celebrate you finally joining me here!” 

The smile on my face remained as I started unpacking the groceries.

Katrina moved through the maze of boxes that littered her apartment before stopping to look into one.

“Yeah unpacking as much as possible and then dinner…has the announcement already been posted?” she started removing framed photos from the box.

I nod and follow with, “Yup, they shot down my suggestion for the caption…“Katrina ‘Mini’ Gorry to join Utah Royals FC to join her amazingly charming and beautiful partner, y/n l/n” 

My hand gestures exaggerating the sentence to get a laugh from Katrina as I carried on.

“Plus, this absolutely beats just a Facetime call date so I don’t mind doing this with you, cariño (dear)” 

Katrina puts down the photo frame of us together when we won the NWSL championship with FC Kansas City and heads to the kitchen and leans on the counter.

“I meant to ask, how’s your sister doing? She doin’ alright?” the question gently leaving her mouth as if preparing for any sort of bad news.

I snort, “Mariana is doing great, surprisingly. She’s back in Mexico and just taking some time off. She met someone and it seems like it’s going well. She said ‘hi’ by the way”. 

My little sister, Mariana, played for the Houston Dash until she had sustained an injury that completely took her out of the sport the last year. Her body was not responding to the treatments or physical therapy and, ultimately, she decided to retire. Mariana elected to go live in Mexico and stay with our grand parents now that she “had all the time in the world for the first time in her life”. 

Katrina looks at me confused but shakes it away, “Your sister is really something, toughest girl I’ve ever met”.

I laugh, “Yeah and me the complete opposite, which is why you are the bug killer in this relationship”. I say talking out the vegetables from the bag and placing it amongst the rest. 

With a shrug Katrina said, “Well, you pay me back in fixing things around the places I’ve lived in…by the way can you do me a favor? I, may have made the latch loose on backyard gate…again…can you tell me how to fix it…again?”

My eyes meet hers as I feign frustration…”Cariño, you’re going to have to remember because what if it breaks…again and Im not around. I don’t want creeps coming into your backyard because you can’t fix it…just this once I’ll do it for you ok”. 

I sigh and leave the groceries on the dinner table and head out the back but not before I lean down and give her a quick kiss on the lips…”God, what would you do without me?” I joke.

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The gate quietly locks behind me with a click. I feel a stir under the rebozo (thick shawl) on my chest, I gently caress the top of her head through the shawl and the movement stops. I lift the top of the rebozo and see that she did remain asleep. 

I smile softly down and whisper. “She’ll be so excited to meet you”.

 I look back at the house and see the lights on within giving off a warm glow. I begin walking and look over at the, now, empty, painted pots that line the wall underneath the window. 

I frown a bit, “damn, guess the roses didn’t make it did they?” I thought. 

As I continued closer to the door I notice several more “artistic” looking pots with doodles and little H’s adorning each and every one of them. 

A smile returned to my face as the memory came back to me.

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February 2020, Norway

The sun peaked through the clouds as Katrina and I sat looking outside the window of her home in Norway. A small heater directed at me as I meticulously continued to paint a medium sized pot. 

I hadn’t noticed that Katrina had stopped painting her own and just watched me as I seemed lost in what I was doing. My tongue sticking out of the side of my mouth as my attention was fully on the project in front of me.

“You not worried about getting paint on your ring, darling?” she said gesturing her paintbrush towards my left hand.

I finish up one little detail on the sun that I had just painted before I looked over to the ring in question.

“Oh shit…totally forgot to take it off.” my hands wiping off any paint before delicately taking off the ring from my finger and handing it to Katrina.

“Hold it for me?” I quietly ask before she silently takes the ring and places in her front pocket joining hers. 

Katrina caught my attention before I could find myself back to painting the pot in front of me.

“How’s Mariana doing?” the tone still careful.

I nod, “Uh she is pregnant actually, set to get married soon. She said that she wasn’t going to have a big thing and just get married at the courthouse…she’s still sad she couldn't make it out to our wedding last Fall ”

Katrina’s eyes widen at the mention of pregnancy, “Oh she’s pregnant? Congratulations to her then…can I ask?”. I notice that she starts to fiddle with her paintbrush as I continued painting with mine.

“What’s on your mind cariño?” my attention fully on her as she sighs softly.

She puts down her brush and takes one of my hands in hers. 

“Remember when talked about kids?...I know that you didn’t want to carry because of fear and I said I would be happy to just only when I feel ready to…(y/n), I’ve been thinking and I think I’m ready to do it, there’s a lot of support with IVF here in Norway and I’ve done the research because I know that you worry and-” she stops once I squeeze her hand. She hadn’t noticed that my eyes were already filled with tears. 

“Cariño, there is absolutely nothing I would want more. I will try to be there for you as much as I can even if it means taking time off with Chelsea” I say now holding her hands tightly in mine.

Katrina, immediately, shakes her head, “hey you have been dreaming of playing for Chelsea since you were young…I can’t ask for you to leave in your first season with them”. 

I laugh a little as I clean my eyes and nose with a leftover napkin “fine you win…well I should buy more pots when our kid is around I want to make sure they have one too.”

We had started our lives together and we were making the step to make it bigger. I had intended, no matter how much money it was going to cost me, to fly to Norway on my free weekends to see Katrina through her pregnancy. 

However, COVID completely shut me off and away from Katrina. Through facetimes filled with my constant worrying of her getting sick while she was pregnant were frequent but not enough to sustain me. 

I had only seen her once or twice after following the strict travel restrictions and I was nothing but elated. 

Katrina had asked how my sister was doing. I had shared with her that Mariana delivered a healthy baby girl, Corey. However, the news did not carry the same lightness as before, the father of the child had left Mariana before Corey was born.

Disregarding Katrina’s protests, I took a bit of time off with Chelsea to just be with her when she finally gave birth to our little Harper. Mariana, joined me in crying over our little addition to the family telling Katrina that “Corey, can’t wait to meet her”. 

Katrina would go to the Brisbane Roar for a time, while I remained in England. Katrina and I were experts in the aspects of a long distance relationship, that didn’t stop my heart from aching from not seeing Harper.  Mariana would fill in those gaps as she would send video after video of her and Corey. Katrina would also fill my phone with pictures of our little Harper…

I wish I could just live in that moment again when my only worry was when would be the time I would see either of them.

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As I moved quietly to the front door, I stopped myself from knocking. I couldn’t just yet…I missed Katrina and I knew she missed me but it had been so long since I had seen her. I plopped down on the steps away from the door. 

I pulled Corey closer to me, and she, in turn, buried herself even more into my chest…I just needed a moment to myself. I was early so Katrina wouldn’t be expecting me and plus I was hidden away from the windows; away from any curious eyes.

My breath came out white as I sighed looking towards the gate in front of me. The last time I was here I was leaving…leaving for Mexico as soon as I heard the news. Chelsea received a rushed email stating that I would be unavailable until further notice and Katrina saw me frantically packing.

I, absentmindly, started to play with my ring finger always forgetting that there was no ring there to play with. Katrina should have been madder at me then.

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February 2022, Sweden

The soft glow of my phone filled the room before the default ringtone woke me up. I carefully reached over trying not to move Katrina as much as she was asleep against my chest. Rubbing the sleep out of my eyes I look and see my grandmother was on the other line. 

My grandmother never called without notice opting to only call when she knew that I would be awake. I answer and interrupt her before she starts asking her to just give me a minute in as soft of whisper I could muster.

I quietly leave Katrina’s side, walk by Harper’s bed by our and into the corridor. A yawn escapes me as I finally prompt my abuela to continue with what she was calling about.

“Ah mi niña, tu hermana esta muy mala, le encontramos en el piso desmayada y quieria avisar le,creo que tu necesitas a venir a vistar la…no sabemos cuanto le falta” (Ah, my daughter, your sister is not doing well, we found her passed out and we wanted to let you know, I think that you need to come and visit her, we don’t know how much time she has left). 

I do not remember what I responded but it must have been something akin to “I’m headed there now” as I immediately went to my laptop and bought the first ticket there. I moved through our home with complete disregard of the noise I was making at 3:30 am nor I didn’t know I was crying until I felt Katrina’s arms around me, calmly, saying my name to bring me out of my panicked state. 

The clothes still bunched up in my hands as I broke down. “It’s Mariana” was all I could hiccup. Katrina rubbing my back as she led me out of the room to not wake Harper. 

“How is Mariana?” she whispered the careful tone still there. 

I shook my head as I continued, “she’s dying, I have to go to see her…I can’t be here…I-” I start breathing slowly to calm my self as Katrina held me, I hadn’t even noticed that we were sat on the ground, her hand running up and down my back.

She smiles and nods as she herself tries to keep the tears from falling, “You go, I will be ok with Harper here, I know how much Mariana means to you…she means a lot to me too. Go take care of her…just know that I will be here for you and I… I still love you, even after all of this time…all the times we have been apart…I love you. Mariana is lucky to have you as an older sister as I am to have you as my wife”

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November 2023, Sweden

I was gone more than a year, Mariana had passed a month after I had arrived in our parent’s small home town. My parents, estranged, would not be there. Definitely not for the daughter they thought would defend their homophobia when I came out to them but defended me fiercely to her last breath.

I handled everything from the funeral, looking after my grandparents and the caring of little Corey. I watched the world cup from the bar counter of little restaurant on the corner. Bouncing Corey on me knee as I watched my wife make history. 

Katrina kept my ring safe with her, I do not trust my aunts at all especially after the fall out I had with my mother. The final check off of my list was preparing for the adoption of Corey. Once she was, in all eyes of the law, my own daughter we said our goodbyes and headed back to Sweden...back to Katrina and Harper…back home.

I sighed as I rubbed my eyes when the cold breeze hit me. The door behind me opened and enveloped me in a warm glow. It took me a few moments to register Katrina’s arms around my neck as she nuzzled her way into hair whispering, “Welcome home”.

I leaned back into her still holding Corey ahead of me as I then heard the pitter patter of little feet and a little “Mama” was heard as another weight was added on my back.

I laughed for the first time in a while, “Hey you two, careful don’t want to crush Harper’s new big sister” I say getting up. 

The sleeping bundle now with open eyes was let loose and with renewed energy hugged Harper and ran into the home pulling her in to play leaving me with Katrina. 

She grabbed me and kissed me like it was the first time and grabbed my hand as we separated. 

“I think this belongs to you, darling” She said slipping the wedding ring onto my finger as I clasped her hand once she did. 

I bring her in close, “of course it does…I love you, cariño” her lips capturing mine. 

Now two little voices came from within the home, “Mama!”. We enter hand in hand with our new favorite little distractions.

[hotvampireadjacent]

Breakfast then an lsat practice test…… in February I’ve been working at my law office for a year so I’ll apply after then to make my application look stronger.

[happiness-of-the-pursuit]

2023 Fic Round Up (Part 1: Fic List)

I have been tagged in about a million different round ups of sorts, so here's Part 1: A Comprehensive 2023 Fic List sorted by month posted (if a multichap, I listed it the first month it posted), featuring the major details and a single-sentence summary/quote (so a fun challenge for me).

I'll post Part 2: Favorite Quotes and Part 3: Channeling Nora Holleran to Bring You My AO3 Data over the next two days (for the data I want to wait til the last possible day).

Without further ado, here is my 2023 Fic List:

January:

Nothing, I was still a lurker.

February:

Prince Henry and FSOTUS Alex Claremont-Diaz Answer the Web’s Most Searched Questions (T, 2.4K, YouTube Script Fic)

10 Things Alex Claremont-Diaz Can’t Live Without (T, 3K, YouTube Script Fic)

10 Things HRH Prince Henry Can’t Live Without (T, 2.5K, YouTube Script Fic)

March:

Prince Henry and FSOTUS Alex Claremont-Diaz Take a Couples Quiz (T, 5K, YouTube Script Fic)

The Super Six Take a Lie Detector Test | Vanity Fair (M, 7K, YouTube Script Fic)

Baby's First Pride (E, 10K, WIP Multi-Chap)

Post-canon, canon-compliant (ignoring bonus chapter) look at the Super Six celebrating their first pride after the emails—I want to come back and finish this (I got interrupted by Life) but my writing has evolved a lot since March and I'm daunted by all the editing I'd have to do, lol

ALEX CLAREMONT-DIAZ COMMUNES WITH HIS ANCESTORS WHILE EATING SPICY WINGS | Hot Ones (T, 3K, YouTube Script Fic)

April-June

Trying to survive the end of the school year as a teacher before I left my job :)

July

PRINCE HENRY SENTENCES US TO THE DUNGEONS WHILE EATING SPICY WINGS | Hot Ones  (M, 3K, YouTube Script Fic)

August

FirstPrince Sings Queen, Lil Nas X, and Taylor Swift in a Game of Song Association | ELLE (T, 2.5K, YouTube Script Fic)

Claremont 2008 (M, 26K, Complete Multi-Chap, Canon Divergence)

A world where Ellen gets elected in 2008 instead of 2016, and the friends-to-lovers path that puts Henry on. If you want to relive the early 2010s, enjoy epistolary fics, or want a glimpse of a world where Alex & Henry go to college together, you might like this.

September

How well you play...that's up to you (M, 4K, FirstPrince Week)

Grey's Anatomy-Inspired AU, where Alex & Henry are both surgical residents—currently a one-shot, but I plan on writing a multi-chap prequel for this at some point.

Keep this Love in a Photograph (T, 2.6K, FirstPrince Week)

Post-Canon: Henry finds Alex's old photo album and they take a stroll down memory lane.

The Starwand (T, 1.7K, FirstPrince Week)

Three vignettes from Alex's life (two featuring Henry) where a sparkler makes an appearance—both a kid fic of Alex and Alex with his kids.

Somebody Call 911 (M, 2.4K, FirstPrince Week)

College AU where Alex is sneaking around with Henry behind his roommate's back—until it all goes to shit.

October

Sets on the Beach (M, 4K, FirstPrince Week)

Crack Treated Seriously, Alex and Henry are on rival queer beach volleyball teams.

Water over Blood (G, 3K, FirstPrince Week)

Post-Canon 5+1 of five times Henry's niece loved Alex, and one time she loved Henry

L(ate) S(leepy) A(morous) T(exting) (M, 1K, FirstPrince Week)

Text-fic of a missing moment from the book, because I am convinced that Alex did, in fact, study for the LSAT (it's just more realistic if we're to believe he scored well enough to get into NYU)

November

Freaky Friday (I woke up in my enemy's body) (M, 9K, Halloween, Huh?)

Canon Divergence, Freaky Friday-Inspired Body Swap AU, Crack Treated Seriously: Between Cakegate and Alex's visit to London, the boys swap bodies and proceed to learn a lot about each other. And themselves.

December

Alex Claremont-Díaz Answers Your Questions | Actually Me |GQ (M, 2K, YouTube Script Fic)

Super Six and the Siren's Call (T, 111K Total, Posting Bi-weekly)

The Percy Jackson AU, co-written with @read-and-write- and @inexplicablymine. Quests and Greek References abound! Check out more @auntiepezzasupdates

(Dil)Do It Yourself (E, 16.7K, New Traditions Advent Calendar)

Alex attends a DIY Dildo Workshop for the holidays, where he meets Henry, who's helping to lead the workshop—and eventually, helps Alex in other ways. The tags will tell you all that you need to know.

Thanks to @rockyroadkylers @hgejfmw-hgejhsf @kiwiana-writes @welcometololaland and anyone else who tagged me that I missed! I was waiting to post all my fics for December before I did this :) Since I'm pretty late, I'll tag @ssmtskw @matherines @affectionatelyrs and an open tag to anyone who's made it this far and wants to do this!

[84queenspark]

ROUND 2 NOTIFICATIONS BEGIN FEBRUARY 12

We thank you for your patience while we read, reviewed and assessed your application materials. It takes time to complete, since selection is more comprehensive and holistic than simply calculating GPAs and checking LSAT scores. The review included January LSAT scores that were received at OLSAS by February 6th.

We expect to complete the notifications by February 14. As per custom, we will also update this blog on the day that notifications end.  

We remind you that only offers of admission are made in Rounds 1 and 2.  Refusals and wait lists are not determined until the 3rd and final round in March.

Everyone not yet offered, is re-considered automatically through all rounds.

Best Regards,  JD Admissions Office

[mkstudies]

finals are over!! I feel like finished pretty strong even though my junior thesis was a bit of a mess, I think my professor liked it though (which is all that counts).

I registered to take the February lsat yesterday!! scary!! I’m locking it and hitting my final stretch in studying for my first attempt. It’s just so hard to focus at school when I need to prioritize my gpa and internship things and social life. It’s so anxiety inducing that I only have three semesters of college left and then I’ll be off to a different school, or even if I stay at my undergrad institution, I’ll hopefully be a LAW student!! I feel like such a child sometimes but it’s still cool seeing my high school dreams come to fruition.

Also currently reading Severance by Ling Ma. Loving it so far. My final project for my creative writing class was about themes of asian identity in america. I’ve been reading a lot of books on that in the past year and I feel like it’s helping me find and understand myself a bit more.

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my main: @cocacolaglass :)

[doctorstethoscope]

Fluffy February Day 5 || Words of Affirmation

first oc blurb <3

pairing: kennedy x jayden

wordcount: 434

contains: discussion of food, alcohol consumption, emetophobia warning (no actual throwing up), technically no happy ending (sorry lol)

Today’s the day. 

At 8pm tonight, the decisions for Harvard’s Junior Deferral Program will be sent via email. Kennedy’s 177 LSAT, 3.9 GPA, personal statement and 4 personal references had all been weighted and assessed, and the letter that would make or break the rest of her life was sitting in some draft folder somewhere, waiting for the magic click. 

She was pretty sure she was going to throw up.

It had been a tortuous day. Kennedy considered skipping her classes (something she’s never, ever done before), but ultimately decided that it would be worse to sit at home and focus on the ticking of the clock. So, to class she went– without taking a single note or absorbing anything that had been said. She’d have to rely on Jayden for the notes, in some sort of Twilight-Zone role reversal 

It’s 7:58 now. Her stomach is churning in knots. She’s been too nervous to eat all day, and now she wonders if she’ll pass out before she even gets the email. Alexa’s here, making herself a drink in the kitchen– she’s planning on taking Kennedy out to celebrate. Kennedy hopes dinner will be involved, and not just tequila. Jayden’s here too, on the couch next to her. He hasn’t had anything to drink because he knows she thinks any early celebration will jinx her– she appreciates that about him, that he indulges her even when they both know she’s being irrational. 

“Hey,” Jayden whispers, barely audible over Alexa’s music and the dinging of the ice in the cocktail shaker.

“Yeah,” Kennedy says, tensely. 

“You’re gonna be a damn good lawyer. You’re so smart, Kennedy. Harvard or no Harvard, you’re going to kick ass,” he tells her, sincerity dripping from his every word.

“I’m gonna be an excellent lawyer who went to Harvard,” Kennedy corrects him. 

“You’re unstoppable. Unstoppable, Ken,” he’s willing her to believe him.

“It’s 8!” Alexa calls from the kitchen. 

Kennedy lurches forward, grabbing her laptop and waking the screen up. Jayden leans in too, trying to read over her shoulder. 

“I got the email! It’s here. I got it,” Kennedy exclaims hurriedly. 

“Open it, open it!” Alexa encourages, grabbing the bottle of champagne she’d brought over from the fridge where it had been chilling. 

“She is!” Jayden calls back, almost snippy with their friend. The two of them on the couch hold their breath as the email opens up in a new window and Kennedy reads. 

“I… I didn’t get it. I didn’t get into Harvard,” she announces, her voice breaking on nearly each word. 

The champagne bottle pops.

[castielsupernatural]

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My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

there should have been a late seasons episode where sam retakes the lsat and totally fails it

861 notes - Posted October 13, 2022

#4

Is it gay to like cowboys? I don't think so but one of my friends said it is... I'm not gay, I just really like cowboys...

[speaking in a gentle tone so as not to spook anon] it is absolutely gay to like cowboys. you are gay

866 notes - Posted June 24, 2022

#3

emergency

871 notes - Posted July 12, 2022

#2

i sure like supernatural a lot for someone who doesn't like supernatural that much

981 notes - Posted February 28, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

dr sexy md?? you mean dean winchester’s blorbo from his shows???

1,171 notes - Posted January 31, 2022

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[katierosefun]

Hey Caroline, thanks so much for sharing my BE ask list!! 😊😊 Here are my questions for you

🤔🎵🍂

helloo tiffany! thank you for making the asks!! // from these asks

🤔 Give me a random headcanon

joo won really hates peanut butter. (it sticks to the roof of your mouth, dong sik-ssi. why would you eat that by choice.)

🎵 What five songs do you associate with Beyond Evil?

impossible by nothing but thieves, because i saw a really lovely edit on instagram/twitter, and i can't find the link now, but god, it's one of my fave edits

iris by chriz lanzon, just because this cover specifically has really smoky autumn/winter vibes in the same way that i think about beyond evil. also, come on, iris is a classic song for any ship.

let me follow by son lux, because that was one of the first songs that i was listening to while writing beyond evil fic, and now whenever this song comes on shuffle, i literally freeze because i'm transported back to really hot late july/early august when i had my shades down and i was writing beyond evil fic in between my breaks studying for the lsat and this song would be the only thing playing in the room and yeah

home by dotan, because again with the autumn vibes. sound of the wind whispering in your head, can you feel it coming back is a lyric that immediately makes me think of joo won standing in the middle of the reed field in a place that used to be home but not quite home, how all roads lead back to manyang, etc etc. gives me chills every time!

i guess by mitski, because i always see the last scene of beyond evil in my head whenever i listen to this song. just joo won and dong sik looking at each other near the water, and you can't hear a single thing except the water lapping and the breeze and even though it's february, you have this overwhelming sense that warmer days are coming , , , yeah. just like this song, the ending of beyond evil has this quiet melancholy to it, but it feels oddly warm, because even though it's the end, you have the feeling that none of it was wasted. (from here, i can say thank you. . . )

🍂 What time of year would you like to visit Manyang?

oh, the autumn. specifically november, i think, right when there aren't a whole ton of leaves left, but not cold enough to snow yet.

[et-iterum]

this has been a great long weekend so far

i updated my resume today. writing down what i’ve accomplished since graduating has given me some much-needed confidence in my law school application. yesterday i took my three-hour diagnostic LSAT practice exam to get ready before my class starts at the end of the month. my target test date is june 9 and i am going to have practice pretty much every single day from february until then, so please send all the good vibes/thoughts/prayers you have.

later today i’m getting my second tattoo, which is going to be a couple of lines from my favorite poem ‘to the young who want to die’ by gwendolyn brooks. it has gotten me through so much.

right now i’m just enjoying my morning and drinking an iced chai tea latte. i would have liked to have gone to the farmer market’s today, but it’s too cold and windy tbh. i’m probably going to stay inside and keep warm the rest of the weekend.

if u made it this far, thanks for reading. we’re now besties

[mitigatingacademics]

{9.19.24}

I have a co-worker who gets questionably upset, for someone who has lived his entire life in an area that experiences all four seasons every year, at the end of summer.

He makes FB post after FB post about how the whole world is dark and everything is dying. If I wasn't familiar with his dramatics, I might actually be concerned for him.

As it is, fav co-worker and I start muting him 30 days at a time around this time of year. He's in good company with my Aunt who gets muted for her bad political takes that I just don't have the patience for.

I say all of this to offer a different perspective.

Autumn is when my soul comes to life.

This is the time of year where I'm inspired in all things.

See: My return to accountability here.

...and there's nothing like a trip to the pumpkin farm to kick-off the seasonal festivities.

🍂🍁🧡🎃☕🍂🍁🧡🎃☕🍂🍁🧡🎃☕🍂🍁🧡🎃☕🍂🍁

Since we last met, I have taken the LSAT twice.

The first time, in February, with logic games. The goal, at that point, was just to do my best and get a score on my record.

I ended up scoring three points (at least) above the median of every school I intend on applying to.

This was achieved leaving out one of the logic games in its entirety. I don't remember the details after all this time but there were multiple variables to account for and I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to set it up. I tried two different ways before giving up.

That being the case, I figured I'd probably be able to score better without the games section - and might be able to garner additional scholarship funding. So, I set about studying for August. And I *was* PTing higher.

When it came to actually taking the August exam, however, I'm not sure what it was, perhaps the fear of scoring worse and indicating that my first score was a fluke, but when I time-checked and found myself a bit behind on the first section I panicked to the point that I very seriously considered getting up and walking out.

I managed to talk myself down, but the time and focus required for that cost me, in my estimation, the equivalent of two logic games.

When scores were posted in August and I received the exact same score as in February... 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

It's a sign, y'all.

I'm done with the LSAT.

I read somewhere that it's best to have applications in by Halloween.

I'm currently waiting on a Letter of Recommendation from my manager. I've asked for it by the end of the month and have promised myself that I won't...ask her how it's going...until at least the 25th.

The Train Master, who is not my direct supervisor, and I was unsure about even asking for a letter, got so excited for me when I told him I was applying that he said he got chills. He had his letter in within a week of receiving the official notice. Bless.

My Personal Statement is written. I continue to edit it in bits and pieces, but for the most part, it's done.

I'm leaving on vacation on October 14.

Ideally I'll have everything submitted by then.

Fingers crossed. 🤞🏻

This law school thing is kinda sorta really happening.

[84queenspark]

ROUND 2 NOTIFICATIONS COMPLETED

By the end of today, February 13th, the complete set of notifications for Round 2 offers for admission to the 2024 first year JD will be sent. Congrats to our newest admitted applicants!

With Round 2 now complete, we will be moving on to the third and final round of decisions, with notifications expected to be sent in mid to late March (likely during March 18-28).  

I did not receive notification of any decision

Only those admitted were notified. Everyone admitted will receive an email notice by 5:30 pm (Toronto time) on February 13th.

Everyone with a file that is complete by March 1 (i.e. all required application components received at OLSAS) will be considered automatically for Round 3 later in March. The responsibility is yours to check your OLSAS account for the receipt of application components required by UofT.

Onward to the final Round 3

As stated in our earlier blogs, no refusals are made in Rounds 1 and 2. In Round 3, the final admission decisions will be one of:

Offered admission

Not offered admission

Placed on a wait list

There is no benefit from contacting us to indicate your desire to be admitted, since we assume everyone who applied would like to be admitted.  

In accordance with the OLSAS application instructions, and in fairness to all applicants, updates to autobiographical sketches (e.g. achievements, employment and activities), personal statements and optional essays already submitted will not be permitted, and will be ignored. Do not send any updates.  

If you obtained grades for courses completed in the fall 2023 semester, then you are required to submit them directly to OLSAS, as per the OLSAS instructions. This includes undergraduate courses, graduate courses or exchange courses. If you missed the Feb 1st deadline, then still arrange for their submission to OLSAS without delay.  Please refer to our Jan 4th blog for details on what to provide for us.

The acceptable LSAT scores for entry into Year 1 in 2024 are those from tests taken from June 2019 to January 2024 inclusively, as we’ve stated all along in the application instructions at our website and at OLSAS.   > If you will not have an acceptable LSAT score for your file then we will mark your file as incomplete and close it. > If you have an acceptable LSAT score, then, regardless of its value, it will be used for file review.   > We can only use scores that were attained from acceptable tests and not speculative scores that may/could have been obtained were it not for some mishap/circumstance.  

Always check first at OLSAS that your file is complete, since all application documents are to be sent to OLSAS directly. DO NOT send us documents directly.  

If it’s not at OLSAS, we will never receive it. Documents received at OLSAS are not distributed to us immediately. It can take a few business days for us to receive it. What is important is that it is received at OLSAS.  

Ensure that your email address at OLSAS is correct since we will send final notifications by email.  

If you don’t recall receiving an email from the UofT JD Admissions Office acknowledging that you applied via OLSAS, then first check your spam/junk folder for that acknowledgment email. If you do not locate it then please check with us immediately to ensure that your emailer can receive our emails properly.

  I’ve been admitted to another Ontario law school

No response to that Ontario offer at OLSAS by its response deadline keeps your UofT consideration open, and it has no effect on our decision  

A Provisional Acceptance of that Ontario offer at OLSAS, will ask whether to keep your UofT consideration open, and it has no effect on our decision  

A Firm Acceptance of that Ontario offer at OLSAS ends your UofT consideration immediately, we will close your file.  

Regardless, DO NOT withdraw/cancel your UofT JD application choice at OLSAS.  

I’ve been admitted to a non-Ontario law school

If you’ve received an offer of admission from any NON-ONTARIO law school at any time, then your response to that offer has no effect on your UofT admission consideration.  

Therefore DO NOT withdraw/cancel your UofT JD application choice at OLSAS.  

We’ve already indicated when we expect to make the final set of decisions i.e. in mid to late March. Until then, it’s entirely in your hands how to handle your response deadlines for offers from other law schools, including making any acceptance deposits.

I’ve been offered admission to another law school, can you expedite my file review before that school’s response deadline?

Response deadlines for accepting at other law schools will not hasten our file review, since we need the time to conduct a full and proper review of all of the remaining completed files. For some files, this necessitates awaiting WES documents, LSAT Writing, or scores from the January LSAT.

Please therefore, do not request decisions before we are ready with them. At this point in time we will not be able to provide an exact date for notifications. As per usual, we will update this blog once we have a better sense of the timing of March notifications.   Good luck!

As always, your patience is appreciated.

JD Admissions Office

[trentteti]

Your February 2018 LSAT Instant Reaction

Many, many congratulations to all of you future lawyers out there who are just getting out of the February LSAT! Hopefully you walked out of that exam feeling like …

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Once those waves of excitement die down (seriously, no more LSAT studying for you, at least for a little bit!), we’d love to hear how it went for you! So before you indulge too much in your celebratory elixir of choice, drop us a comment below to share your experience in the LSAT today. Any crazy games? Fascinating topics in Logical Reasoning or Reading Comp? Overzealous proctors? Sounds like there were a couple unique games at the end at the end of the LG section, one about museum guards investigating a robbery and one about econ classes. Any hot takes on those?

Alternatively, if you left today’s exam feeling a bit like this …

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… let the comment section serve as a safe space to unburden yourself. We’re here for you. We’ll be updating throughout the day. And then check back here on Monday for a more detailed look into the exam.

Congrats again, from all of us at Blueprint!

An important note: LSAC prohibits us from publishing many specifics from this or any LSAT (including discussing the answers to individual questions, trying to identify the experimental section, &c.). So if your comment is removed, it most likely violated some kind of rule or was close enough that we didn’t want to risk it. Here’s a pretty good guide for what’s acceptable.

Your February 2018 LSAT Instant Reaction was originally published on LSAT Blog

[sexyrichardnixon]

wind: 1000000

my hair: 0

[doctorstethoscope]

Fluffy February Day 24 || Candle

pairing: kennedy x jayden (ocs)

wordcount: 848

contains: food consumption, bad weather, pining

Kennedy can’t focus, which is one of her biggest pet peeves. But the wind is so loud, and the rain is pelting against her window, and the thunder and lightning are raising her blood pressure. She shuts the LSAT prep book. There’s no point. She’ll have to study twice as long tomorrow, but she’ll do it. 

She wanders out of her bedroom in search of Jayden, who’s on the couch watching some Marvel movie she wouldn’t be able to place even if she was given a hundred guesses. He notices her in the hallway and gives her a questioning glance. 

“If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em, I guess,” she declares, crossing the living room and plopping down next to him on the couch. He doesn’t ask any questions, just passes her a share of the blanket he’s using and shifts the popcorn bowl on the table closer to her. “Is this one of the ones with Paul Rudd in it?” She asks. 

“Are you gonna be awake long enough to find out?” Jayden asks. He’d never seen her stay awake through a whole movie, and given how late it was and how long she’d been studying for, he knew she was a goner.

“Obviously,” Kennedy scoffs, reaching for his popcorn and helping herself to a handful as she settles in under the blanket.

As Jayden suspected, Kennedy’s blinks started to get slower less than twenty minutes later. She’s asleep somewhere around the 30 minute mark, and her head falls onto his shoulder as the credits start to roll. 

He weighs his options. This feels… really nice. He tries not to think too hard about what that means. He could wake her, sure, but that just seems mean. And she’s not bothering him, really. And he… just doesn’t want to. He wants to stay here, like this, with her. Which means that the next logical option is for him to sleep out here too, which makes him grimace. The loveseat really isn't ideal for one person to sleep on, let alone two. Plus, he’d run the risk of her waking up in the middle of the night and feeling weird about it, the two of them sleeping together. Well, maybe not together, in that sense, but close enough. Well, maybe he could shift his way out just right—-

He’s saved from his decision paralysis when a resounding pop goes off from outside, and the power cuts out. 

“What? What happened,” Kennedy asks, jolting awake. “Aw, man, I missed Paul Rudd?” 

“Paul Rudd wasn’t in this one, and the power’s out,” Jayden explains. 

“What do you mean?” She asks, reaching out and grabbing his wrist, as if she suddenly became aware that the house was cloaked in darkness and she couldn’t see. 

“I heard a transformer blow. The city will come out and fix it, but probably not until the morning when the storm’s passed.” 

“Morning?” Kennedy says, and Jayden can tell she’s about to panic. 

“Hey, it’s okay. Haven’t you ever had the power go out before?” Jayden asks, rubbing his thumb over the back of her wrist soothingly. 

“Not really. My dad always made sure the generator was ready to go if it was going to storm at home.” 

“It’s no big deal, I promise. We’ll just light some candles and it’ll be fine,” he tells her, starting to stand up, but she tightens her grip on his arm to hold him in place. “Ken, come on. It’s our house, still. Nothing’s going to hurt you except maybe the edge of the coffee table. You can stay here if you want, just let me go get the candles.” He encourages her, and she releases him, so he treads carefully into the kitchen and returns with the candles and a lighter. 

“When I was little, my mom and I used to wait all summer for a good storm to come,” he tells Kennedy as he lights the candles, setting them on the coffee table and slowly illuminating the room. “We liked to listen to the thunder and lightning together. We had a gas stove there, like the one here, so once the power went out she’d light the stove with a match and make us hot chocolate, and we’d listen for the pause between the lightning and the thunder to see if the storm was getting closer or further away.” 

“That’s really nice, Jay,” Kennedy says, and he’s lit just enough candles that he can see the way the corners of her eyes crinkle up when she smiles at him. She looks as perfect as he’s ever seen her, with her hair piled up on top of her head and a bit of mascara smudged from her nap. She’s leaning in towards him and he’s leaning in towards her and he’s certain he’s about to change the dynamic of their relationship forever, and he’s not scared. Not at all. He closes his eyes and leans in, and a clap of thunder wakes them both up, sends them to their respective loveseat cushions. 

“I guess that sounds pretty close, huh?”

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[prinnylord]

I'm taking the February LSAT and that shit got me stressed to hell and back. Been drilling Logic Games for 5 hours a day and it's kind of soul crushing how difficult it is to do it all in a decent amount of time. Even if I get the questions right, the fact that I did it slowly diminishes the accomplishment entirely. Hard knock life. At least it'll be satisfying when I can finally put it all behind me.