uhm duh, i recycle.

damn. now i'm thinking i'll do this:

• finish my BA in American History @ SCU, use the credits i've started in Environmental Studies for a minor in that subject. Graduate in Fall 2008 with a BA in History and a minor in Environmental Studies/Science
• take the rest of 2008-2009 off to teach full time
• fall 2009 begin graduate work either at the inderdisciplinary environmental science MS and law school program (you get a MS in environmental studies and a law degree) at Stanford, OR if i really love teaching, start my MA in Education at UCSC.

good. great. wonderful. sounds like a plan to me.


they want volunteer work? good. i have that in the bag.

i swear, if i dont get into stanford law with a 3.5+ gpa, a near perfect LSAT score, 4 years of volunteer teaching/working with at risk youth & title I kids, and a mother ****ing masters degree -- i'll kill the admissions officer in his sleep.

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i am so vain. and yet, so masochistic. how can the two coexist?
-francesca woodman

It seems like most college or grad schools like volunteer work in the area of your interest. Your work with at risk youth is probably very attractive to law schools, but there will probably be many such applicants for them to choose from. It's so nerve wracking/I hate it.

I have yet to take the LSATS. Since you said you got a near perfect score I assume they went quite easily for you, but I still feel compelled to ask "how were they for you?" I don't really know what to expect. Did you do practice tests before the real deal or did you just walk in a wing it? Were they easier than you thought they'd be? Etcetc. Ugh, I have so many questions for so many people.

in slightly related news

i'm deathly afraid o gradschool applications

me too.

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i am so vain. and yet, so masochistic. how can the two coexist?
-francesca woodman