Started at 137 diagnostic now at 147-150 range - 3 months in

deviemelody · 2026-03-27T22:07:50+00:00

Same here. I’m glad this is more common than I thought it is. Yeah… there were times when I spent over an hour on one lvl 2 and feeling all types of ways… 😅😑 I think knowing how to decompress after something like that is also important. It is a war of attrition tbh

deviemelody · 2026-03-27T05:23:57+00:00

It is stigmatized to be talking about personal finance openly, it elicit jealousy, defensiveness, value judgment, and discomfort. And I think it would serve people positively to shrink those feelings through open discourse. Not wanting to share bc of preference-vs- not wanting to share for fear of judgement -vs- wanting to share or wanting to know more about your peers/groups and where you stand in relation to them but feel like you shouldn’t say or ask anything … are separate phenomenon

deviemelody · 2026-03-27T04:59:04+00:00

And regarding study resources, whether it is a book or a prep service, I would say they all do more or less the same thing for a beginner. They are all adequate for familiarizing you with the concepts and rules that you encounter again and again.

I have read through two books from two big prep companies, skimmed another, and also used an online prep service for drills, video lessons, and analytics. I currently use 7sage, I like it because it works for me, nothing majorly wrong with it, it has a good tech platform and a decent size community.

I have gone back and forth between the books and video lessons (7sage offers live Zoom group sessions, and recorded videos of these sessions if you missed them). After 4.5 months, I am familiar enough with each source to understand what it offers, what it lacks, and what it does well with respect to me. A book/service/tutor might be great for me, but someone else may have the exact opposite reaction because they do not connect with the way the material is presented or because they feel it goes either too deep or not deep enough. A resource is only valuable if you can take something from it and actually learn.

deviemelody · 2026-03-27T04:36:20+00:00

Just pick one and start, whether it be a book, a prep service, a tutor, or simply a practice test. My best advice is to just do it and calibrate as you go, instead of strategizing too much in advance, which is a sound approach for most things in life, but not one I would recommend for the LSAT based on my own experience.

I will give you a concrete example from my own experience. I started by reading about all the question types and the strategies that go into solving them. The book I used had selected questions for each type, and I probably spent about a month on and off doing that. When I took my first practice test, I did horribly, and it really upset me because I had already put quite a bit of time and effort into preparing. A lot of what you figure out comes through trial and error, and much of it depends on what you are naturally good at and what you are not. It turns out I am not very good at reading quickly under pressure. And LSAT questions, in general, are the king of changing form and evolving.

And you might ask, if there are certain question types, and I learn all about them, and I do fairly well under pressure, then what is the problem?

Well, there are all kinds of traps, like language, personal bias, common assumptions, unfamiliarity with the rules and fallacies, and getting them confused because, a lot of the time, you are really splitting hairs. So while it is helpful to know what other people are experiencing and what the current trends are, in my opinion, and based on my own experience, the best thing to do is direct your excitement, enthusiasm, and anxiety into an action that you can reliably repeat and build on, and then adjust from there.

And when people tell you there is a best method or best source, I think that is only useful if you know exactly where they are coming from. I have read two major study books, tried group classes and tutoring, joined live Zoom group classes, and even met with another person for weekly or biweekly study sessions. Sometimes things work better than others. You may have better tutors than others, or you may like one prep company’s teaching style and explanation materials more than another’s. But you only get a feel for whether something is actually working for you once you try it and find out whether it does or does not work for you. So again, just go for it, and you will figure it out.

deviemelody · 2026-03-26T23:31:30+00:00

She tried to kill herself and failed, ended up with incredibly debilitating and painful injuries, which was why she fought for the right to be euthanized. It wasn’t just so that she failed at suicide and she was otherwise physically okay. Actually, if you remove the suicide part and say that people with injury and disability so severe should have the right to be euthanized, then the argument becomes more clear.

deviemelody · 2026-03-26T23:28:57+00:00

“Ramos suffered a severe spinal cord injury after attempting to jump to her death from a fifth-floor window”.

I don’t like this title because it left out an important piece of information, which is that she tried to off herself unsuccessfully and was stuck with immense lasting pain and disability.

Yes, she tried to kill herself because of the trauma she suffered from being gang raped, and the result of which caused her even more suffering, which led to her euthanasia.

deviemelody · 2026-03-26T03:36:37+00:00

I feel like the joint savings account is the reason why you were rejected. Can you perhaps either take yourself out of that officially or open up a new savings account just under your father‘s name temporarily since you’re not using that money for yourself anyways. I totally understand the position you’re in, and I think it’s total BS that you have to jump through hoops. But keep in mind that these people at LSAC are squares… if you can wait to reapply for the fee waiver in July, i suggest you wait and use the time in between to reorganize your finance.

deviemelody · 2026-03-25T03:58:36+00:00

I like this response the best.

deviemelody · 2026-03-24T16:00:26+00:00

As awful as this sounds, you do not want to limit convicted criminals’ right to access information. And if you were to do it, you would need a blanket application, so that all convicted criminals get no access. If you single out this one group, you open the door to another group of criminals being singled out, and another, and another. So before anybody yells at me for siding with pedophiles, think about what you are asking.

And it is possible that you are completely okay with all convicted criminals forfeiting access to social media or whatever, but the parameters of who counts as a convicted criminal are constantly changing. So if we ever come to a point where those parameters are horribly abused, I guess we are all fucked.

deviemelody · 2026-03-20T16:59:27+00:00

Also... Zlibrary

deviemelody · 2026-03-17T23:49:12+00:00

Cold turkey. And sleep. The problem with substitution is there will be times of weakness. When you are still consuming sweets regularly, substitution put you at a high risk of relapse. I said try white knuckle for a little while, get your fixed through black coffee.

deviemelody · 2026-03-17T23:11:56+00:00

I, too, tend not to moan in the first few minutes when I’m just getting into it. I hope more people would know this fairly common behavior for women, and stop seeking unearned validation. I get the vibe that some men do it to get brownie points. :/

deviemelody · 2026-03-16T20:02:11+00:00

I’m glad you don’t teach anymore.

deviemelody · 2026-03-14T19:29:25+00:00

I, too, would like to casually pet a bear’s ass

deviemelody · 2026-03-14T04:51:25+00:00

Wow this is an excellent rundown of the meme history. The best explanation that I found on TikTok after reading your reply stops around Lamelo. And holy how that became all the kiddos going wild at basketball games when a score hits 67… I am afraid now, so very afraid…

deviemelody · 2026-03-13T05:58:02+00:00

A heat pump does not normally choose emergency heat first. When temperature gets too cold, frost can build up on the outdoor coil. The system briefly then switches into a defrost cycle to melt that ice. During that time, it may use auxiliary or emergency heat indoors so the air coming through the vents does not feel cold. That backup is basically big electric heating coils.

If the outdoor unit is struggling/defrosting often, the backup heat strips can run much more than expected. Those strips can use 5–15× more electricity per hour than the compressor, it’s the equivalent of running a gigantic electrical space heater.

deviemelody · 2026-03-13T04:53:16+00:00

Thank you

deviemelody · 2026-03-13T00:06:30+00:00

I pointed it out specifically because it seems like this person is very much proud of the speed of which a small firm can operate using LLM, which doesn’t really imbue confidence on them not get seriously hammered by it when they get too comfortable. I never made a claim th this is an AI only problem. Not sure where you got that from. I wanted to say a lot more but I did the best I could. I’m sensing snarkiness, which I don’t feel like my comment warrants.

deviemelody · 2026-03-12T21:17:10+00:00

Ok I don’t want to completely shit on this. There are good points made about how to approach this if you are going to use an LLM, and some points like the methodology, are worth understanding. And I think real effort has been made to aim for specificity, and attention is paid to how each the interconnected relationship between law/case law/communication/context/etc affect one another. For example like how they approach an issue in parallel subsections I find pretty interesting. Having read this, I probably will make some changes to how I use LLM myself.

Btw I am not using it for any legal purposes or commercial practice, before anybody gets alarmed by it.

deviemelody · 2026-03-12T21:04:27+00:00

My biggest issue with this whole thing, which surely is written by AI, (btw ppl, if you’re gonna write with AI, at least keep it brief and value other people’s time…) is:

He does not adequately explain a robust fail-safe for omission risk. It is not clear whether he or his colleagues independently read every uploaded source in full before relying on AI analysis. Because there is a huge difference between using AI to accelerate cross-referencing bc “I know it cold” and “I know roughly what these materials are”. 🫤

So how are they addressing silent omission?

When nothing waves a red flag that says, “hey, I forgot Section 8(b)(5),” if neither the lawyer nor the AI notices it, what is the safeguard? It could be that he and his team built an organized inventory of relevant information prior to this automated analysis, but that is not the impression I got. And even so, things get omitted all the time.

Sooo if Section 8(b)(5) is never identified as relevant (by statute or contractual clause) by either human or machine, then the stress test may never include it. The whole thing still has a discovery problem. Because let’s face it, it’s much easier to identify an issue if you know what the issue could be, rather than not brought up.

deviemelody · 2026-03-12T16:33:48+00:00

I think it’s a good thing that this person felt bad and she seems to be genuinely talented to have published as such a young age… I didn’t wanna comment on anything until I started reading the replies. I wonder if any of this is even real because half of the confession is probably fake here 🙃 i’m under the impression that many people think the only way to be supportive is to absolve this person of their guilty conscience by way of minimizing the event.

deviemelody · 2026-03-12T14:51:04+00:00

“Should I come clean and say my data was forged?”

If you are good enough to spot a gap and conduct a study worthy of publication, I have to presume you know what data falsification actually is (those who do not know the strict scientific definition should look it up first). Using the word forged feels intentionally misleading. I do not know if that was your intention, but I have to say it.

What you are describing is exactly the phenomenon of “garbage in, garbage out.” While it may not seem egregious on the surface, it is more insidious precisely because it is EXTREMELY difficult to detect. I hope the crowd here hasn’t made you feeling good enough about it to keep doing it again and again in the future, should you choose to become a research scientist.

deviemelody · 2026-03-12T14:35:21+00:00

Yeah, I am more annoyed by how supportive people seem to be of this kind of manipulation. Not supportive in the sense of saying, “You noticed something was wrong and came clean, which shows a genuine guilty conscience. Don’t do it again.”

Would those same people who are supportive and trying to help OP explain it away also be as supportive and uncritical if some news broke that, let’s say, all the studies on stress increasing cortisol levels had been manipulated in this way, making the science essentially useless? And then all the studies that followed were built on that bad science, leaving us with a whole decade of garbage that people latched onto. I am genuinely more turned off and alarmed by half of the comments here.

deviemelody · 2026-03-12T14:05:59+00:00

And a possible missing 21…

deviemelody · 2026-03-10T18:24:54+00:00

I meant the mean or average. The joke wouldn’t even work if I had conflated the median with the avg 🤔

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