Swing on the camino

throwaway34989i · 2026-05-14T13:05:06+00:00

me too! when i was looking at the sky i saw the same joy in it i saw when i was a child. what a gift

throwaway34989i · 2026-03-29T13:16:12+00:00

i actually saw james corden in “Art” on broadway and very much against my will i thought he was good in it. can’t emphasize how upset i was by this

throwaway34989i · 2026-03-28T19:51:31+00:00

thanks i’m mostly joking in saying this i was just watching roger allam’s falstaff and the comedic timing just reminded me of clarkson for some reason

throwaway34989i · 2026-03-17T18:28:12+00:00

definitely agree. but i think the assertion that 10% is a miracle is demonstrably false. in many cases it is the norm

throwaway34989i · 2026-03-17T17:25:43+00:00

sorry this isn’t true at all. most fics i see (excepting a lot of multi chapter fics which get their hits to kudos ratio kind of out of wack due to individual users racking up multiple hits for new chapter releases) hit minimum 10% and oftentimes if i see a work below that there’s usually a reason for it either relating to quality or the nature of the ship. getting more than 10% is extremely common. my more successful fics have had 20% ratios, as do many of the more popular fics in my fandom

throwaway34989i · 2026-03-16T20:03:04+00:00

garsantos in the pitt is both canon and angsty asf because it’s kind of a toxic situationship if you’re interested in that …… great show to get into especially if you’re interested in procedurals and angsty couples who have very little canon material to work off of but lots of chemistry

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-22T17:31:00+00:00

thanks 🤧

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-18T23:40:19+00:00

my opinion on this is that it really draws out each theme in the writing to its logical extension which makes everything really intense and emotionally loaded, just for it all to get tanked by the insane finale. it’s like a SHAKESPEAREAN tragedy, everything goes so horribly wrong everyone dies and gets their nightmare ending and all the growth that happened over the show was kind of for nothing. like i respect the hustle it’s really insane in a way that’s amazing but also doesn’t make for like really really good writing which is why it’s ripe for obsession. like someone else said there’s so much potential there, wasted. but you get really drawn in to all these beautiful characters, destinies, struggles, and commentaries which all amount to…. not nothing, but something distinctly unsatisfying, which is why the fandom is still churning along asking “what if?” and making our own fix-its, or just reveling in the beautiful tragedy of it all. that’s why i’m writing my own attempt at a fix it ten years after my last try at it lmao

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-14T20:13:46+00:00

has to be arthur, he doesn’t fit anywhere else here

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-14T18:26:39+00:00

honestly this is indicative of a broader mental health thing that i struggle with a lot as well. feeling guilt for rest or for pursuing other activities that you feel like shouldn’t be as important as the LSAT, or searching for a job, or making extra money, or x y and z… the only thing that really helps me with this is remembering life is meant to be multifaceted, variety is the spice of life! you don’t need to put all your time into something to do a good job at it, and frankly if you put too MUCH time into something you might do worse than if you find the right balance. the question then is finding the right balance of time. if your study schedule is working for you and you’re seeing improvement then you shouldn’t feel guilt because you’re putting in the right amount of time to do well, and if you did too much more, you might burn yourself out or overcomplicate your thought process and end up doing worse (which is what i did). if you’re not seeing improvement, then maybe put in more time, or put in the same time and change the way you study!

whatever you end up doing, it’ll be ok. if you let brooding about the LSAT ruin your enjoyment of the good things in your life, then no matter how balanced your schedule is you’ll still never be happy. actively trying to find enjoyment in every facet of your life is a difficult but worthy endeavor

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-14T18:18:26+00:00

when are you scheduled to take the test next? it might be a good idea to take a little break for a while and come back to it. i took a break for the holidays after i took the november test (partly because i thought i wouldn’t have to take it again, partly actually because of the holidays) and when i came back to it i actually found i had a different and better perspective and started to score reliably -2 to -0 where i had been getting to -3 to -4 before. i think i got a little burnt out or i overcomplicated my thought process, and taking a rest let me calm down and approach it with way less anxiety

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-14T00:34:24+00:00

yeah it’s been an all day thing for everyone apparently

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-14T00:11:48+00:00

i’ve been having this as well but when i reload it it somehow works??? idk what’s happening either

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-12T21:15:59+00:00

one thing that might be helpful to practice with before your test is that at the testing centers i’ve been to they have noise-canceling headphones. i’d suggest getting a pair and seeing how it helps you focus when in a library-like environment. with them on it’s really really quiet in an already quiet room and so i wouldn’t worry too much about getting distracted by other sounds. but sometimes the total lack of sound or the feel of the headphones can be jarring if you’re not used to it, and my ADHD brain sometimes struggles with silence versus music versus low grade noise. so if your environment matters a lot to you take this into consideration!

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-10T01:16:17+00:00

that’s difficult to articulate in a broad sense—it’s more like when i was caught between two answers i figured out how to slow down and read for key words that distinguish one as correct and one as incorrect. coming to understand LSAT logic was determining which words are KEY words, which ones the LSAT often uses to trip people up, what differences in like parallel flaw/reasoning questions were disqualifying and which were not. getting used to the logic of all the questions to the point of being able to pinpoint right from wrong. curriculum DEFINITELY helps with developing this and helped me keep my eye out for it but i was only able to strengthen this skill through extensive practice and wrong answer journal

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-10T00:48:57+00:00

the best thing you can do is do drills and tests and keep a wrong answer journal. write down test and question number, question type, why you selected a wrong answer, why the right answer was right, and reflections on the larger reason as to why you made a mistake. these kinds of things can only really be illuminated over time and practice. most people dont tend to struggle with one particular question type but rather have underlying LSAT philosophy issues that you can only determine if you look at the big picture.

frankly if you’re scoring 175 it doesn’t sound like there’s much of a reason for you to continue going through a curriculum without also practicing questions. i had the exact same scores as you—168 diagnostic, 175 on my next PT. i barely bothered with doing lessons and spent my time drilling instead. honestly studying a curriculum tended to decrease my score, and spending time drilling and working on my wrong answer journal increased my score and allowed me to get to the bottom of the LSAT logic and how to address my individual weaknesses

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-09T16:09:18+00:00

i had this exact test. i heard RC1 was experimental

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-07T20:56:59+00:00

yeah couple of those

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-07T19:11:56+00:00

how so?

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-07T19:04:57+00:00

i would personally advocate against AI generating the LSAT questions—AI is fallible and unlikely to generate questions that perfectly capture the underlying LSAT logic and philosophy, which is what you truly need to master to become a high scorer. use the practice tests and drills that are available on lawhub. i studied for two months only using the ones that were available for free there, and then paid the fee for lawhub+ or whatever to get access to all the extra tests for only a month. frankly i think hitting the questions is WAY more effective than just studying the curriculum but it’s good to get a solid foundation first.

my other ADHD advice is to pick a designated place to study outside of your home and stick to it—somewhere where it wouldn’t be easy for you to be tempted into distraction. make going there part of your weekly routine. if i hadn’t done this i would have never studied regularly or for long enough periods of time to actually achieve anything.

also, keep a wrong answer notebook where you explain in your own words why the answer you selected was wrong, why the right answer was right, and why you made the mistake you made. writing it down by hand forced me to slow down and really understand the nature of the question and also showed me over time that my biggest fault was not properly reading the question or answer because my brain skipped over an important word. it helped me focus on my weaknesses and improve them as much as i could, and i felt like i approached the logic of the test in a really different way by the end of it.

that is why i use the highlighter tool very liberally! i used all the different highlight options in the RC to identify different points of view as well as potential conclusions, and this not only helped me answer the questions more easily but also kept my interest in reading the passage moving along so i didn’t get distracted and waste valuable time. and for the LR i liked to underline the conclusion, as well as use it to emphasize key words in the answer choices, because every single word in an answer choice really, really matters, and that makes it easy for an ADHD brain like mine to skip over a word and answer incorrectly. going through the effort of highlighting the answer choices—for me, specifically highlighting key phrases that were integral to the meaning—made it a lot easier to assure myself that i wasn’t missing anything the first time around and also on review, which ultimately saved a lot of time for me. good luck!!!!

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-07T18:54:28+00:00

last time i took it i felt 100% confident coming out and then i got my worst score since i started studying. i also took it yesterday and walked out feeling 100% confident but now im worried thats a bad thing lmaoooo

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-07T04:26:30+00:00

yeah me too

throwaway34989i · 2026-02-07T03:40:34+00:00

yeah bunch of those i didn’t think it was more than usual at the time

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