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Run Run as Fast as You Can

Today Useless Law School was an LSAT testing site. Since the June LSAT exam is on a Monday afternoon (as opposed to the typical Saturday morning time slots of the other exams), when I got out of BarBri at at noon today there were tons of stressed people hanging out in the lobby of Useless Law anxiously anticipating/dreading the start of the exam. I had to fight the urge to yell "RUN AWAY NOW" at the top of my lungs right there in the middle of the lobby.

Seriously, I remember exactly where these folks are. I was there, 4 years ago, the summer of 2005. I was TERRIFIED of the LSAT, it was the hardest damn thing I'd really tried to do in my life at that point. I hadn't been scoring all that well on my practice exams and I was worried I wasn't going to get a score high enough to go to law school at all. I was going to be totally crushed if I wasn't able to go to law school. At that point I had no idea what law school was like, what being a lawyer is like, or what studying for the bar would be like. If I knew what I know now when I was sitting in that same position 4 years ago, I'm not sure I would have taken the LSAT at all. I probably would have at least waited a year or so after undergrad to make sure I really wanted to go to law school. Ironically, now as I suffer through barzam studying I would sign up to take the LSAT again in a heartbeat. I'd give anything to just have to take a 3.5 hour exam that doesn't require knowing any substantive law to get a law license.

@rogueclown responded to my tweet on the subject this afternoon and said "i'll help. as someone one year out of law school who does not want to practice law, i feel uniquely qualified to assist." What about the rest of you law school blogging peeps? If you had to do it all over again would you go ahead and take the LSAT? Would you still go to law school after finishing the LSAT? Would anyone rather take the LSAT again instead of the barzam?

Full post as published by [ Useless Dicta ] on June 08, 2009 (boomark / email).