Sunday, October 30, 2005
Envelope please!!
So it's been awhile again, but it's been another one of those months.... We continued to get settled back in Minnesota. We are listing the townhouse for sale (again) beginning on Nov. 1. Last year when we moved down to New Orleans, we had attempted to sell it but didn't have any luck at all. Hopefully, with our new realtor team, we'll do better. They suggested we do some painting and all of the other typical things you need to do in order to have the best chances which, suprisingly, our last realtor didn't bring up. So, already we have that much more confidence. They are also friends of ours from the waterski team, so that has a lot to do with it too. We'll see what happens....
More bad news from the weather department... we were supposed to have our wedding in Cozumel on Nov. 25, but yet another hurricane, Wilma this time, forced us to cancel those plans as well. We're now looking at sometime in February but it's all still up in the air....
Okay, so now the moment you've all been waiting for (who "you" are, I'm not sure). LSAT and applications update!!! I took the LSAT on Oct. 1, 2005 at Hamline University. I ended up one of the lucky ones at the site as I was assigned to a room with large tables instead of the stupid fold up half-desk-arm chairs. Everything on test day went perfect. We stayed at a hotel in the Cities Friday night so we didn't have to drive in the morning. I got to the Univeristy around 7:45 and did a few problems while waiting for things to get going. We got rolling around 9:30 after the proctors checked our IDs, read us the rules, etc. I felt really good immediately after the test. I felt like I had nailed the games and there were very few of the logical reasoning questions that I wasn't 100% sure on. My only concern was that during the reading comp section, I REALLY had to use the bathroom (I should have only had half a cup of coffee that morning, I guess!!). I had finished the section in less than 20 minutes.
To make a long story short: I ended up with a 173! I'm pretty pumped with my score; it puts me in the 99th percentile and really gives me a ton of options for schools (at least, gives me a reasonable shot at being accepted in a ton of them). I only had 7 wrong total, basically as I had hoped - 1 on each LR section, 1 on games and 4 on the reading comp. So, now I'm going to send apps to both Comlumbia and NYU... according the the different websites, I have less than 10% chance of being accepted to either, but with my work experience, I figured I'd give it a shot. I have finished what I feel like is a decent personal statement and a decent diversity statement. I need some people to critique them for me before I'm comfortable sending them in, however. That should be done this week...
So, that's where things are now and I think that's enough for one post. Hopefully, things will become a little less hectic around here and I can keep this thing more up to date.... I'm not going to count on it though.
More bad news from the weather department... we were supposed to have our wedding in Cozumel on Nov. 25, but yet another hurricane, Wilma this time, forced us to cancel those plans as well. We're now looking at sometime in February but it's all still up in the air....
Okay, so now the moment you've all been waiting for (who "you" are, I'm not sure). LSAT and applications update!!! I took the LSAT on Oct. 1, 2005 at Hamline University. I ended up one of the lucky ones at the site as I was assigned to a room with large tables instead of the stupid fold up half-desk-arm chairs. Everything on test day went perfect. We stayed at a hotel in the Cities Friday night so we didn't have to drive in the morning. I got to the Univeristy around 7:45 and did a few problems while waiting for things to get going. We got rolling around 9:30 after the proctors checked our IDs, read us the rules, etc. I felt really good immediately after the test. I felt like I had nailed the games and there were very few of the logical reasoning questions that I wasn't 100% sure on. My only concern was that during the reading comp section, I REALLY had to use the bathroom (I should have only had half a cup of coffee that morning, I guess!!). I had finished the section in less than 20 minutes.
To make a long story short: I ended up with a 173! I'm pretty pumped with my score; it puts me in the 99th percentile and really gives me a ton of options for schools (at least, gives me a reasonable shot at being accepted in a ton of them). I only had 7 wrong total, basically as I had hoped - 1 on each LR section, 1 on games and 4 on the reading comp. So, now I'm going to send apps to both Comlumbia and NYU... according the the different websites, I have less than 10% chance of being accepted to either, but with my work experience, I figured I'd give it a shot. I have finished what I feel like is a decent personal statement and a decent diversity statement. I need some people to critique them for me before I'm comfortable sending them in, however. That should be done this week...
So, that's where things are now and I think that's enough for one post. Hopefully, things will become a little less hectic around here and I can keep this thing more up to date.... I'm not going to count on it though.
