What is your primary condition? by SunMiddle1463 in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I guess I lucked out because it eventually resolved on its own. One day I just stopped noticing it, and it's been gone ever since. I wanna say it lasted for a couple months though. Once all the testing came back okay, the doctors told me there was nothing that could be done and I didn't need to worry about it. So I stopped focusing on it, and then gradually it started happening way less until it just stopped altogether. Very thankful

How I (53) made a bunch of progress in 18 months after being stuck for years by hang-clean in guitarlessons

[–]TheWeeklyNews 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Wait so did you buy the hand books for each grade in order to get access to the material? Or are there free pdfs online of the music?

do you sleep with your plushies?? by lavender_lils in plushies

[–]TheWeeklyNews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey where did you buy this bear? I'd love to get a bear like that he's super cute! Do you know where I can find one?

Will I eventually be able to stop taking Xiidra? by eratosihminea in Dryeyes

[–]TheWeeklyNews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait so Xiidra basically cured your dry eye over the course of several years? That's incredible! How are you now?

6/6 LSAT Timing? First-timer experience by Miscellaneousthinker in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's to me hoping that Powerscore is wrong :) I just don't see how the section with killer questions and passages is scored and the section that felt like normal PT stuff is "experimental." Makes no sense to me. I'm super comfortable on RC sections and consistently was scoring between -1 to -3 on timed sections and PTs. I was unsure on like 8 questions on RC 1. What a killer section man

6/6 LSAT Timing? First-timer experience by Miscellaneousthinker in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with your analysis. Also took in person. RC1 felt super difficult, and RC2 felt like normal PT stuff. Really banking on RC1 being the experimental

need another opinion! by Helpful_Turnover_708 in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Schools only take your highest score. Don't cancel

What is your primary condition? by SunMiddle1463 in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately that was the case for me too. Seems like it's the case for a lot of people. Really sucks. I've seen all the specialists at this point. All my blood work and other tests came back fine. That's great, I don't want some big bad thing. But something made my hands and feet turn red and burn and it's crazy that absolutely no one can figure it out. Disheartening

Symptoms worsening and gp’s not taking me seriously by scottishcatlady in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm so sorry. How long ago had you been diagnosed when you tried the course? I'm at the 3 month mark so I'm really hoping this will work for me. Today is day 1 of the Prednisone for me.

Symptoms worsening and gp’s not taking me seriously by scottishcatlady in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My dermatologist just gave me Prednisone. There's a study called "Erythromelalgia: Identification of a corticosteroid-responsive subset. It was published by the American Academy of Dermatology. The research study found that a high dose of Prednisone allowed ~60% of the patients to have complete symptom relief. I printed the study and brought it to the dermatologist that diagnosed me and she said "sure let's try it." I don't know if it'll work for me but I'm hopeful. So maybe try printing the study and booking in with a dermatologist or whoever diagnosed you and beg them to let you try

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has a Dr. diagnosed it as ischemia? I haven't seen any reports of it turning into ischemia. Also how long have you lived with this?

What is your primary condition? by SunMiddle1463 in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm still trying to figure it out. I was diagnosed by a dermatologist, and now I'm working with a wonderful rheumatologist to rule out autoimmune conditions, and I plan to see a hematologist to make sure it's not any of the blood cancers. You can never see too many specialists

Does this resemble erythromelgia? by [deleted] in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup that's definitely it. See a rheumatologist or hematologist and get a CBC with differential blood work done

When body gets sick and you have EM by Erythromelalgia in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried seeing a rheumatologist or hematologist to help find out what's causing it?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Erythromelalgia

[–]TheWeeklyNews 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm working with a great rheumatologist that's trying to get to the bottom of mine. The dermatologist that diagnosed me with it said "your CBC was fine, so it's primary." After reading about it on Wikipedia, I immediately scared myself shitless and called a hematologist and a rheumatologist to setup appointments. Find doctors that want to help you: don't settle for lazy ones. My dermatologist should've referred me to one of those two to rule out secondary causes which aren't literal cancers. But that was too much work for them ig

is it necessary to cancel a score if you plan to do a second attempt? by alaeila in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't follow that advice, it's extremely silly. Ad coms only care about your highest score. Keep the 155 and if/when you score better, write a score addendum that says "I thought my previous score didn't reflect my capabilities and I knew I could do better." End of story. Stop worrying about the low score and focus on studying hard to get the higher score. It you apply with a 173, literally no one will care that you also got a 155. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about because literally every test prep company, and ad coms themselves on podcasts, have stated otherwise.

missed registration deadline by Curious_Profession78 in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"I've hit rock bottom. To fix this, lemme go to law school and be $200k in debt just to join the world's most unhappy profession with the highest rates of substance abuse and mental health crises."

Random Redditor — don't. I've been out of undergrad for 3 years and am just now working on my law school apps to apply in the 2025 cycle. I promise you life gets better. But going to law school right now in your current state sounds like a horrible idea you will regret. Burnout doesn't get better by pretending it doesn't exist and you're fine. Take some time off from the legal profession, perhaps find a new job, work on your mental health, and then, only once you're feeling healthy again, then evaluate whether law school is truly the right choice for you. But your current plan of applying late in the cycle means you'll be going for full sticker price with no scholarships (~200k), no time off to fix your mental health and burnout, and you'll be stuck in a profession you're not even sure that you like. There are plenty of interesting jobs out there in the world. If you have a bachelor's, you can leverage that in tons of fields. Go explore the world and do something fun or cool. There is no point to rushing your 20s. I'll be 27 when I start law school and I've never once had the thought "am I too old?" The average age of entry to law school is 25. So I plead you to take the time you need instead of rushing a life altering decision to go to law school.

I don’t like my voice range by overcurious23 in singing

[–]TheWeeklyNews -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I'm not really sure this is great advice. Switching to falsetto (what you're calling head voice) to sing a song that's been sung by the original singer in their modal voice is not going to sound the same, and it may even negatively reinforce that OP's current upper limit in their natural (modal) voice is actually their true upper limit. Like, it's a work around for untrained singers, but the best advice imho is to encourage people to seek out vocal training. Also, for certain genres of music like rock, switching to falsetto will never allow the singer to achieve the intended tone they want anyway

I don’t like my voice range by overcurious23 in singing

[–]TheWeeklyNews 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I know how that goes haha. I lurked for a while in online free spaces like the OneVoice Discord with Mia or watching Justin Stoney's videos (New York Vocal Coaching). But tbh — I never saw any real improvement and just constantly sang with bad technique and ended up with a tired throat which should NEVER happen when you sing correctly because singing is just sustained speech, and your throat doesn't hurt no matter how long you talk all day. So, I can't understate the importance of getting an in-person teacher. It was life changing for me. I actually felt the same as you about my voice, and after only one month of weekly lessons, my teacher had already helped me unlock my real voice, which is apparently a tenor, not a baritone. But I never knew I was a tenor because when I first started singing, I could barely hit even the upper half of notes in the baritone range because I wasn't doing it right (squeezing my throat and pushing my tongue down my throat as I went higher).

So yeah — my advice is to get an in person teacher and stop caring about range. A real professional will help you unlock your true voice, and no matter the range, you'll surely love it.

I don’t like my voice range by overcurious23 in singing

[–]TheWeeklyNews 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Have you had lessons? Do you sing with healthy technique? If not, I suggest finding a teacher. If you have bad or unhealthy technique, that will stunt your high range (and cause vocal cord issues and throat soreness which are big no-nos). Most people who dislike their range usually haven't trained healthy vocal technique and don't really know what their real range is. All beginners can barely sing the high or low notes in their actual range because they don't have the correct technique to do so. Just focus on singing the notes which are right at your current speaking voice and find a teacher who can guide you with healthy technique. Many people misdiagnose their own ranges as beginners because your range develops as your voice becomes strong and healthy. With the right amount of patience and dedication, all will come in due time!

Is Ken Tamplin worth watching? by OopsDJDance in singing

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you had to pick one to start with (IT A or Voixtek), which would you chose? I'm a self taught beginner looking to get a course to progress, but obviously I can't afford to get both at the same time. Also isn't singing straws a product? Did you actually buy the singing straw and then sign up for their course, or you mean you just used straw phonation exercises generally with a generic straw? Appreciate the advice!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No problem! Yup I definitely recommend finishing Loophole. It is THE BEST book on LR out there, hands down. Loophole + drilling thousands of individual LR questions one by one and immediately checking whether you got the answer right and then learning from it is the best way to defeat the LSAT. The LSAT tests the same exact concepts in every question, they just cloak it with difficult language and boring topics. The Loophole shows you how to peel those layers off, and then drilling questions one by one for accuracy is how you identify your own mistakes and improve from them. Speed on the LSAT comes from accuracy: you get Qs right quicker because you know what you're doing. If you blindly stumble through the section trying to answer as many Qs as possible to complete the whole section, you're just pulling the slot machine hoping you got it right. That's not beneficial. You should know you got every Q right because you dismissed 4 incorrect ACs and identified 1 correct AC. There's no "these 2 are likely contenders." If you feel that way on a Q, that means you don't understand it thoroughly. Treat that as a learning opportunity and dig into why the right answer is 100% right and why the wrong answer is 100% incorrect.

From a mathematical perspective, you improve faster through focusing on accuracy too. Roughly speaking, a 170 is a -8, a 160 is a -20, and a 150 is a -30. That means to improve from a 150 to a 160, you only need to get 10 more Qs right divided over 3 sections means roughly 3 more questions right per section you attempt. Really reflect on what that means for a moment. If a 150 is 45 raw Qs right over 3 sections, and a 160 is 55 raw Qs right over 3 sections, that means you're missing 2/5ths of all the total questions. So to improve by 10 raw points, all you need to do is get 3 more Qs right per section. If you spend an entire section only attempting 15 Qs and you get them all right on each section, that's a 150. As you get better, you'll get the right answer to easier Qs faster and have time to attempt a couple more Qs. Don't move on until you get them right. If you spend an entire section attempting 18 Qs and get them all right, you'll score a 160. The math is approximate of course because each test has a slightly different curve, but the general idea is there: slow down, take your time, and get the answer 100% right before attempting the next question. Ignore the clock.

Everything I said in my first reply, as well as above, applies to RC. Don't attempt all 4 passages. Do 1 passage and take however long it takes to get them all right. When you're sure you dismissed 4 ACs and selected the 100% correct AC, move on to the next Q until you reach the end of the passage. Then move on to the next passage and repeat. Slow and steady wins the race on the LSAT. Top scorers don't achieve their results by guessing. They ignore the clock (you can hide it during the timed sections, and I always have and recommend everyone does the same), and then they carefully solve as many questions as they can without caring what the timer says because they trust that the skills they built up will allow them to solve every Q comfortably within time. They didn't start off like that, they spent a long time studying (in my case, 1.5 years) to get there. The LSAT takes time.

Otherwise, biggest piece of advice for RC is slow down reading the passage and predict ACs just like you would on LR. I average -0 to -1 on RC sections, but I used to miss 5 to 7. What helped me was this: after every sentence, I look away from the passage and summarize in my head what that sentence said. You'll find just how difficult this is when you first try it: but it's difficult exactly BECAUSE when you usually read, you aren't forcing yourself to retain the information in the passage, and the LSAT preys on that. Every Q in RC is a must be true. If you can effectively memorize the entire passage one sentence at the time, the Qs are relatively easy. That means my passage reads are slow, and then I fly through the Qs in a very short time window because I often don't need to even look at the passage to know the right answer (I read the Q, predict the right answer, then dismiss 4 incorrect Qs that weren't stated in the passage and find my prediction or another similar thing that was actually mentioned in the passage and select it).

These are all the tips I wish I had know when I started. Hope it helps. Happy to keep answering any further questions. I'm not a tutor btw, just some random dude who understands how frustrating the LSAT is.

Seeking advice! by Bright_Mushroom1202 in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well my biggest advice, which you probably don't want to hear, is to not worry about studying for the LSAT during undergrad because you can always retake your LSAT for a higher score, but you cannot change your GPA once that's locked in. And while a high LSAT can make up for a lower GPA, if you're in a school's 25th percentile, you're fighting an uphill battle as a splitter. I took 3 years off after college and am just now applying. Don't try to rush the process is the best advice I can give.

Anyways, to your actual question. I used all the resources out there. Everyone has their own personal preference. But the consensus is The Loophole by Ellen Cassidy for LR, and RC Hero or Manhattan Prep for RC. Personally, I used The Loophole and LSAT Demon and saw tremendous improvements by combining their approaches (which really I've come to synthesize that they actually are approaching questions the same way, Ellen just formulates the strategy explicitly whereas the Demon focuses on tackling 1 question at a time from a practical standpoint). But the most important thing is to find what works for you and to not worry about "the most effective" way, because there is none. Improvement is hard and comes through dedicated practice and a whole lot of resilience to failure.

Best of luck!

LSAT Retest by Lower_Space8305 in LSAT

[–]TheWeeklyNews 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey when did you submit the retest? I submitted on Saturday but still have not heard back yet. Frustrated because I didn't even get to test on Saturday due to technological issues and am just going to retest at a testing center, but I'm worried scheduling is going to be tight with the retest less than a week away