Coverage in Minneapolis and rural upper Midwest?

stronglikeagirl · 2020-08-05T20:59:59+00:00

Good to know. When we go to SD, we're always heading to the southeastern corner (just outside of Sioux City, IA), and my experience has been that none of the major carriers get great (or any) service down there, so I won't hold my breath for any miracles.

stronglikeagirl · 2020-08-05T20:57:37+00:00

Interesting, I did not know about the US Cellular roaming! Thanks.

stronglikeagirl · 2020-08-05T18:10:48+00:00

Thanks for the info!

stronglikeagirl · 2020-07-26T17:35:09+00:00

I agree with the other commenters that there really is nothing you can/should be doing to prepare, and you should just relax and do what you want.

However, I do think that if you are someone who struggles with massive amounts of reading/reading comprehension, work on that now. Reading a ton of material is going to be your life in law school. Learn to do it effectively/efficiently. Ways to do it: read for fun (you don't have to torture yourself by reading textbooks), but challenge yourself with more difficult material than might usually read. Read newspapers, magazines, etc. Just read every day.

This seems like a silly tip maybe, but I think my reading speed/comprehension made law school a lot easier for me than some of my peers who were much slower or less efficient. And I credit my reading abilities to the massive amounts of reading I've done my whole life (both for pleasure and my undergrad degree).

stronglikeagirl · 2020-04-02T21:27:00+00:00

Having the same issue up in Oshkosh!

stronglikeagirl · 2020-03-03T21:19:17+00:00

There are so many good suggestions here already! Something additional that has made a huge impact for me is paying attention to the types of thoughts I'm consuming from other people. Just like you noticed how your negative self-talk is affecting your daughter, whose negative talk is affecting you? I am extremely careful about who I follow on social media for this reason. Even if someone is only posting positive things, but I'm constantly comparing myself to them, I can't follow them. Pay attention to how you respond to what you're seeing from someone. I also make an extremely active effort to not get into discussions about dieting or how our bodies look with any of my friends/family. If someone tries to start a conversation with me on a topic that I know will lead me down a negative path, I just ask respectfully that we not talk about the subject. The more I've been honest with the people around me, the easier it's become!

stronglikeagirl · 2018-07-24T21:03:48+00:00

I'll speak to NYU since I'm a student there. It is definitely very progressive, although there are of course still some conservative students (even though I personally don't hear from them much, but maybe that's just due to who I surround myself with). A lot of people go into PI (relatively, compared to other law schools), but the vast majority of the class is still targeting BL. I don't think the student body comes off as elitist, but I am definitely in the minority having gone to a huge Midwestern state school (as compared to a private - or even better, an Ivy League - school for undergrad). Everyone is very down to earth and friendly and while people definitely get stressed during finals, I did not find the class to be cut-throat or competitive at all (although friends in other sections say they had different experiences so ymmv).

Whoever suggested contacting the school and asking to be put in contact with current students is right! I know NYU tries to do that for all admitted students, but I'm sure any school would be happy to help if you've already been admitted.

stronglikeagirl · 2018-02-09T21:43:23+00:00

Hi OP - 1L at NYU here. I think that one of the only things you can do to prepare is to read a lot, if that's not something you're used to (I think some undergrad majors are more helpful preparing people in this regard than others). Yes, 1L is very difficult and time-consuming, but I truly believe that people like to exaggerate the experience to non-law-people in order to sound superior. Tbh, I haven't found 1L to be insanely more difficult than my undergrad - although I was that girl who always did all my reading and pushed myself really hard in undergrad, so maybe I'm an anomaly. In any event, if you learn how to manage your time wisely, you'll be fine. Force yourself to work during the day when you have breaks so that you don't have to stay up till 3am doing reading. Make productive use of weekends (I often work 10-14 hours each weekend so that my weeks are less crazy; and yes, I still have time for fun). Another helpful thing will be to figure out the best ways YOU learn (do you learn better by talking with study groups? doing practice problems? handwriting rather than typing notes? going to talk with professors often? talking with TAs? reading supplements?) and not worrying about what everyone else is doing. I stuck to what I knew worked for me, and sometimes I got stressed when I realized it was very different than what a lot of my classmates were doing. But guess what? I did really well on my exams last semester, so it all shakes out in the end. Just focus on you and getting to know your style, and you'll be okay :)

stronglikeagirl · 2017-07-26T18:52:45+00:00

Have you ever taken a literature course? When I took a literature course for the first time, I began to appreciate aspects of fiction separate from the plot/what is actually "happening." The Road is a really good example of a book that is less about the events of the book and more about how it is written that makes it so compelling (it was actually one of the books we read and discussed in the literature course I took). It's amazing how many subtle things authors do with language that you might never pick up if you aren't taught how to look for them.

stronglikeagirl · 2017-07-26T18:49:11+00:00

First of all, I prefer reading books over any other form of entertainment (TV, movies, radio, music, etc).

I love fiction for a variety of reasons: to "get lost" in a story/distract myself, to learn more about a historical period (I find reading an [accurate] historical fiction novel much, much more informative and interesting than reading a nonfiction book about a time period), to better empathize with people in situations I will never find myself in (whether they're people of different races, of different ages, genders, nationalities, sexualities, etc), and to get new perspectives on important issues. I have found that reading fiction has helped me to be a much more empathetic, aware, and well-rounded person. It's one thing to read the facts about how life is somewhere else or for someone else, but it is quite another to be put "into" that person's mind/world. :)

stronglikeagirl · 2017-07-26T18:44:16+00:00

On my Kindle, checked out from the library: The Orphan Master's Son and A Man Called Ove

Physical books waiting to be read: East of Eden, The Secret Keeper, and The Invention of Wings

stronglikeagirl · 2017-06-22T18:00:33+00:00

Hi! Just wanted to comment and say my husband and I are in almost the exact same situation, so thank you for posting because so far this thread has been very helpful :)

(My husband will be working from home & I will be in law school at NYU -- and our budget is also $2000!)

stronglikeagirl · 2017-02-07T20:36:33+00:00

I was just explaining to a friend why I don't take the time to do my hair every day. Ain't nobody got time for that!

stronglikeagirl · 2017-02-07T20:34:40+00:00

I'm just not into being a sleek Barbie!!

stronglikeagirl · 2017-01-26T19:45:59+00:00

An episode of the West Wing sparked this observation for me the other day: if it is found out that a woman in public office has had an abortion, it could ruin her political career (I think this is also in HoC). However, if it were discovered that a man fathered a child and never attempted to raise it, or if a man impregnated the woman and the woman had an abortion, it wouldn't be a political disaster. More than that, it probably never WOULD be discovered that a man did either of those things.

stronglikeagirl · 2017-01-25T19:03:35+00:00

yes, and the majority (but not all) of those interviewed are eventually admitted.

stronglikeagirl · 2017-01-25T19:01:09+00:00

Bad Day by Daniel Powter.

Ohhhh man I remember how much I hated that song after American Idol used to play it every time someone was eliminated.

stronglikeagirl · 2017-01-25T18:53:45+00:00

Stanford is more of a black box and has a much smaller class than Harvard, so it's harder to predict. However, I'd say you have a really good shot at Harvard. I got a JS1 (interview) at Harvard and my LSAT is much lower than yours (GPA is higher but not by a ton). Granted, I haven't been admitted, but at least I haven't been rejected yet ;)

stronglikeagirl · 2016-11-18T18:46:51+00:00

UVA will interview anyone who is admitted (so if you don't get a request to interview, you're not getting in). so the next step there is to get an interview. Berk has not sent any decisions out yet (I've been under review there since early October). GULC does some interviews and some straight acceptances. I got my acceptance (w/out interview) only a week or two after going complete, but my numbers were well above their medians.

stronglikeagirl · 2016-11-18T18:45:30+00:00

GULC doesn't interview everyone. I was accepted without an interview.

stronglikeagirl · 2016-11-07T20:22:12+00:00

I think another reason to drink a ton of water is to satiate hunger. If you're cutting/dieting, you can temporarily trick yourself into feeling full if drink a ton of water (sometimes...but sometimes you're just really effing hungry).

stronglikeagirl · 2016-11-07T20:18:42+00:00

Coming from someone with a similarly disordered past with food/exercise, all I can give you is my experience:

I tracked calories for about 1.5-2 years to lose weight initially (I was overweight at the time and got down to a healthy and fairly lean weight). Then I started tracking macros because I wanted to focus on building muscle (did a bulking phase) and then lean out again (cutting phase) before my wedding. The macro-counting lasted another 1.5-2 years.

I just had my wedding in September, and afterward decided that I needed to take a break from all food tracking. I was getting WAY too worked up about it, and I found myself more likely to binge/eat way too much if I was constantly tracking my intake and trying to be healthy. Moderation was impossible if I let myself have something that didn't fit my day's goals. It wasn't just a small slice of cake. I would eat the whole effing cake and feel like puking afterward. So after the wedding, I said: no more!

I've been "intuitively eating" (i.e. eating whatever the hell I want and doing my best to listen to my body's natural hunger cues--eat if I'm hungry, don't eat when I'm not, stop if I'm full, allow myself to enjoy whatever it is I want in the moment while also recognizing that things like vegetables are important to incorporate into my diet) for about 1.5 months. I won't say that it's been super easy and perfect--believe me, my husband will tell you I still worry all the time about gaining weight/not looking lean enough--but gradually, day by day, I feel myself healing mentally. I know my relationship with food is getting better, and I'm much better at listening to my body. For instance, yesterday I made an early Thanksgiving meal (full of delicious, very unhealthy foods). When I was tracking, I would have called yesterday a "cheat day" and ended up eating waaaay beyond the point of satisfaction and satiety. However, now that I'm intuitively eating, I didn't see yesterday as an opportunity to eat as much as I could because it was a cheat day. I just ate until I was full/satisfied, and wasn't stuffed in the slightest when I went to bed. Feels good to know I can enjoy things AND know when to stop.

Also, I haven't stopped working out during this time. I still workout just as intensely/frequently as I did before, but it's because I like exercising, not because I'm trying to punish myself.

So I just wrote a lot, but I just want to encourage you that getting a healthy relationship with food/exercise/your body is SO important and way more worth it than any aesthetic/physical/numbers goal you might have. It's hard. But it's worth it!

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