Showing posts with label random thoughts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random thoughts. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Oh, how I am glad that it's over!

I am talking about the LSAT of course. I took the test September 26th and now patiently awaiting the results which are due on October 19th. I feel that I did not study enough for the exam, even though I practically stopped my life for two and a half months. I took the Kaplan LSAT Prep class which I thought was less than excellent. It was good but for the price of $1,400 it could have provided more. There was absolutely no focus on the writing sample which I understand is not graded but is still very important. Their online smart reports were useful but lacked in sophistication. The exam itself was also pretty difficult. There were three logical reasoning sections, one experimental, but of course I do not know which one it was. Hoping it was section 3. The first section was reading comprehension which usually puts me to sleep. So, part of me was thankful that it was the first section and I was fast to get it out of the way. Part of me hated the fact that I started off with my least favorite and the section that I could never finish on time. That said, I did get to almost all four passages and the last passage which was about copyrights, a topic which I am most familiar about, I felt was the most difficult. The games section was last and was by far the one I struggled with the most. I did not finish all the games and feel like I probably got many questions wrong. So as you can see, I feel like I bombed the exam and may take it again in December. Which means that after October 19th, I'll be back to studying, except this time on my own. Luckily, most law schools I called now take the highest LSAT score instead of averaging them. Wish me luck!

As far as the test location... I took the exam at Wagner college on Staten Island. Short of a marching band outside our windows we had it all. It apparently was family weekend on campus which attracted hundreds of people who chose to hang out right outside our windows. The exam began at 9:00 am sharp. Before the crowds showed up, the campus staff was cleaning the streets, using those huge blowers to get rid of the fallen leaves. At around 9:45 a book sale began. At 10:30 the college president was speaking. At 12:00 a football game began. All of this was accompanied by loud music. So what began like a nice and quite environment with small classrooms and only 9 people in the room, ended in a very frustrating and distracting experience.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Omnivore’s Hundred

This list has been making the blogosphere rounds, and has finally landed on mine. The Omnivore's Hundred is list of 100 items that Andrew Wheeler, co-author of the British food blog Very Good Taste, thinks every omnivore should try at least once in his/her life. It’s only his subjective opinion. If you have not heard of any item on the list (I didn’t know all of them), you should be able to find it on Wikipedia. He presented the list as a game with the following rules:

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you have eaten.
3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4. Optional extra: post a comment on Very Good Taste, linking to your results. Note: If you do the list, but don’t want to post a comment on VGT, at least leave a comment here on my blog with your link or results.


1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake