WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES!!!!
My history with the LSAT is a long and complicated relationship. Some people like to say that they had a love/hate relationship with it. Not me, I have a hate/hate relationship with the sucka!!
Back when I was a junior in college (2002/2003) and decided that law school was the next step in my quest for world domination (okay maybe that was too much LOL), I headed to the Internet to see what steps I needed to take in order to attend law school. I obtain this wonderful timeline (which is a great thing for planners) and one of the first items was this thing called "Law School Admissions Test". So me being the nerd that I am, I read up on EVERYTHING LSAT and headed to the book store to obtain a LSAT study book.
In January 2003, I went to the LSAC website and registered for the June 2003 exam. When did I decide to study for this exam? TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE EXAM!!!! I didn't know this back then, but there is NO SUCH THING as studying for this exam. Nevertheless I aced it!! Well...... not necessarily aced it, but I did receive the highest score out of all of the people who I went to college with. If you know what I made, I don't know what that says about my college and/or the people that go to it. LOL!!
Sooooo five years later in 2008, I decided that I am really serious about going back to law school. I did my due diligence and found out that I needed to take the exam again. Once again I registered for the exam and once again I did NOTHING to prepare myself. I convinced myself that I was ready to ace this exam.
I was like, "Hey! I didn't prepare myself last time and I did okay, I should be okay this time. Right?"
No. I did horrible, actually the worst you can do, I did THAT...... I was so ashamed of myself and was actually convincing myself that it was time to give up this law school dream and move on to something else.
In the beginning of 2009, I was having my "annual work evaluation" meeting, and the new person over my department wanted to know a little about me. After the obvious things (family, college, hobbies), we went on to discuss my short attendance in law school. I went on to give her the scripted version (I had a lot things going on at the time and I decided to just sit out for awhile), but for some reason she could sense the bulls**t. Without saying that I was a liar, she made me comfortable enough with her that for the first time I was honest and could actually say it out loud, "I flunked out of law school".
Then she said something that just clicked, but for some reason, I cannot remember the exact quote, LOL!! All I can say is that after that meeting I came out with a new mind frame! Especially since she offered to pay (well have the company pay) for me to take the exam AGAIN and to pay for a prep course. I never had someone (outside of family and friends) have such confidence in me.
Now this is when my journey REALLY BEGAN....
STAY TUNED FOR PART TWO!!!!
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