Killing One Bird With Two Stones

Time for some shameless self-promotion! For all you New Yorkers thinking about taking the LSAT, Blueprint will be having a free LSAT seminar on Wednesday, hosted by myself. We’ll be discussing everything having to do with the LSAT, including scoring, strategies, timelines, and the test’s importance in the law school admissions process (spoiler: it’s important). [...]

Some crazy-smart dude with a fancy calculator who’s basically the Nostradamus of politics just decided to rank the best neighborhoods in New York City. And guess what, mofos? My little neck of the woods, Park Slope, was named as the best place to live in this giant orifice. That’s right, Manhattan, so why don’t you [...]

Apparently the Dean of Loyola Law School owns a DeLorean, because he just went back in time and changed everyone’s grades. If you graduated from Loyola, your GPA just retroactively went up by a third of a grade point. And everyone currently going to school there will be getting a whole grade higher in each [...]

As you may or may not know, the writers of the LSAT have very limited interests, so you tend to hear about the same things again and again. Teaching the LSAT has made me something of an expert on Thurgood Marshall and general cosmology. But there’s nothing the designers of the LSAT love more than [...]

I haven’t had television broadcast into my home for about five years. Don’t worry, I’m not one of those self-righteous “Kill Your TV” jerks. I have an LCD and waste as much of my life in front of it as any other obese American; it’s just that I switched to watching everything on DVD a [...]

As has been discussed ad nauseam, law school rankings can often be inaccurate oversimplifications and generally detrimental for everyone other than US News and World Report shareholders. For a variety of reasons I won’t go into now, USNWR is generally the only one that means anything, but as I’ve mentioned before, you should always do [...]

I currently can’t hold down water. This is because of the dinosaurs. So Monday was the LSAT. Afterward, I met my students for (what should have been celebratory) drinks. And I heard the following story about 15 times. On the games section, the first one was nice and easy. The second wasn’t too bad, a [...]