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Category Archives: LSAT in Real Life
What if the Billionaire Inventor of Spanx Had Aced Her LSAT?
Last week, Forbes published an article about Sara Blakely, the youngest female self-made Billionaire in the world. Sara made her fortune from her company Spanx, the ubiquitous lady-shaping underwear company. But Blakely didn’t always want to be an undergarment magnate. After graduating from Florida State University, she had planned to go to law school, but ran into the LSAT. After bombing the LSAT twice, she worked at Disney World before selling fax machines door-to-door. Then came the Spanx epiphany.
But what would have happened if she had actually done well on the LSAT? Let’s take a look at what could have been…
After taking the LSAT and scoring abysmally, Sara Blakely decides to enroll in a Blueprint LSAT class.
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Mar 12, 2012 - 11:24 am - By Colin Elzie
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Dumb Daylight Savings and How it Relates to the LSAT
The Daylight Savings Time switch is this weekend! Exciting, right? We’re on the “spring forward” side of things, so at 2 a.m. on Sunday clocks move forward one hour. What does this mean for you? Well, it means that the clock has moved forward an hour, obviously. The sun rises later! The sun sets later! You get one hour less sleep! You forget about it 24 hours later! What a glorious invention Daylight Savings Time is.
If Daylight Savings seems pretty stupid, it’s because it is. It was originally implemented to save electricity, but there are now studies that suggest that it actually causes us to use more energy. DST ruining everything is far from a new phenomenon. The seeds for the idea were planted by none other than Ben Franklin, a man famous for his love of prostitutes and failing to ever be president.
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Mar 9, 2012 - 6:30 pm - By Colin Elzie
Tags: law school, LSAT, lsat in real life, studying for the lsat
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Don’t Study for the LSAT Today (And Other Leap Year Myths)
Today is February 29! Also known as Leap Day, this occasion happens only once every four years (and sometimes only once every eight years). For tens of thousands of years, this magical day has filled mankind with wonder, and there are a lot of superstitions and beliefs about the day. They might not all be true, but they probably are.
Let’s take a look:
It’s OK to propose to a man on Leap Day – Ladies out there, are you tired of waiting for your man to propose? Well today, and today only, you’re allowed to do some role-reversal and propose to your boyfriend! You may remember this tradition, as it was popularized a few years ago by the famously terrible movie Leap Year. If you want to take part in this tradition, you have to make sure to wear a partially visible red petticoat under your dress (really).
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Feb 29, 2012 - 6:39 pm - By Colin Elzie
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The LSAT Hits the Red Carpet at the Oscars
The Academy Awards were last night. Some of you no doubt watched everything from the red carpet through the award for best picture. Others may have preferred the NBA All-Star game, leaving them to scour blogs to figure out what happened.
There’s no red carpet on LSAT test day (unless you provide it yourself — and if you intend to try this in June, please send us the resulting video), but that won’t stop us from imagining what kind of LSAT test takers that can be associated with the celebrities who turned the most heads (for better or worse).
Sacha Baron Cohen, who appeared in character as Admiral Aladeen to promote an upcoming movie, would fail to receive an LSAT score. He showed up sporting a complete military uniform, hat, and sunglasses and carrying an urn full of Kim Jong Il’s ashes.
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Feb 27, 2012 - 6:04 pm - By Aaron Cohn
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LSAT Score Predictor: Downton Abbey Edition
Continuing our tradition of predicting the LSAT scores of fictional characters from television shows, this week we turn our sights across the pond to Yorkshire, England. Just how would the residents of Downton Abbey fare in the face of our favourite standardised teste?
Earl Robert Crawley – 164
Robert Crawley, the head of Downton Abbey, is a surprisingly rational and forward-thinking man, especially for an aristocrat. Whether allowing his daughter to marry a commoner or turning his home into an infirmary, he’s shown that he isn’t too proud a man, and would make sure to study diligently. But he also has a pretty fatalistic streak, which we witnessed when he wouldn’t fight for Mary’s right to be able to inherit the estate. So he wouldn’t retake the test even though he could probably do even better. He’d also probably have a sudden outburst about the need to leave things as they are.
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Feb 24, 2012 - 6:58 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Spend the Holiday with Some Presidential LSAT Flaws
It’s Presidents’ Day, which means a day off for the lucky ones among us. Since our business here at Blueprint is the LSAT, it’s also the perfect time to look at some President-related logical fallacies. The official federal holiday is in honor of George Washington’s birthday, but we’ll take a broader look.
Equivocation: Bill Clinton, our 42nd President, famously said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Now that we know many of the details of his affair with one Monica Lewinsky, it would be easy to call this statement a fantastic lie. We could also say that President Clinton was simply doing what an LSAT flaw question answer choice might call equivocating with respect to a key term.
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Feb 20, 2012 - 5:11 pm - By Aaron Cohn
Tags: law school, logical fallacies, LSAT, lsat flaws, lsat in real life
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Down! Set! LSAT Logical Fallacies at the Super Bowl! Hike!
Super Bowl XLVI, also known as “Super Bowl Extra Large Six,” is a mere three days away. You have exactly that much time to fly to Las Vegas and lay down your savings on the Giants, the Patriots, the over, the under, or whether or not Madonna kisses Gisele Bündchen during the halftime show.
By this time next week, the big game will be a thing of the past and the February LSAT will once again engulf your concentration. But there’s no reason we can’t tie the two subjects together.
So throw on your jersey, huddle around, and read these five Super Bowl-themed logical fallacies.
HUT! HUT! HIKE!
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Feb 2, 2012 - 6:44 pm - By Hank
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Finding LSAT Flaws in Real Wife
Being both an LSAT instructor and a married man can be pretty hard. Trying to use logic with a woman is already hard enough, but a married woman? Think there’ll be fallacies? Brother, you don’t know the half of it.
Take last Friday night. So I’m out with Mike at the bar, and I get home pretty late. So what? I work hard. I deserve a beer or two. Anyway, Deborah’s waiting up, going on and on about missing dinner or some garbage. And as if that wasn’t enough, she starts saying that I’m drunk. Classic temporal fallacy. Sure, I was at the bar, and sure, I maybe had a couple pitchers, but that was at the bar. Just because I was drunk then doesn’t mean I was drunk when I got home. What’s true about the past doesn’t have to be true of the future. And besides, if I were drunk, would I be able to drive myself home? That shut Deborah up.
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Jan 23, 2012 - 8:00 pm - By Colin Elzie
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Viva Las Vegas: The City of LSAT Flaws
I recently spent a few days in Vegas. What I learned was that, while what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, what happens in Vegas will also cause you to score poorly on the LSAT. Sin City is also the City of LSAT flaws.
VEGAS LSAT FLAW NO. 1: EXCLUSIVITY
While walking down the Strip, I was propositioned by a very nice, and I’m sure completely disease-free, lady of the night. When I politely declined her invitation to do something referred to as the ‘Chicago Slough,’ she questioned my sexual orientation.
No, Felicẻ, there are plenty of reasons I might decline your offer. Maybe I’m in a committed relationship. Maybe you’re just not my type. Maybe I don’t like paying for sex.
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Jan 18, 2012 - 6:10 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: LSAT, LSAT fallacies, lsat flaws, lsat in real life
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Turkey Day LSAT Exercises
If you are studying for the quickly approaching December LSAT, you have probably reached a level of temporary insanity by this point. It is likely that you are accusing your significant other of committing fallacies during your intimate moments, you are having dreams in which you are actually one of the players in a game, and you are anticipating the primary purpose of each US Weekly article that you read at the gym. The good news is that you might be able to use this as a defense if you commit a crime in the next ten days. On the negative side, you are starting to smell pretty bad and your friends are avoiding your calls.
But screw it, I say we amp it up a notch. Let’s bring the LSAT to Thanksgiving.
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