Ed Cottrell

  • STOMP

    STOMP is awesome. Annie bought me tickets for Christmas and treated me to dinner at Gordon Biersch (also awesome), tonight. That was a very cool performance. Oh, and I got a call from UVA, today: more good news made me 4 for 4. Sweet.

  • The Official “Numbers are annoying” Post

    I’m frustrated by the waiting game on school applications. Why? Well, I got a very solid (A- range) GPA from Rice, which, of course, is a great, though underrated, school. I got a very good LSAT score, but not quite what I was getting in practice. Now, I have to play the blasted waiting game…

  • NYU Acceptance

    I just got my acceptance to NYU School of Law. That’s 3-for-3; I’m feeling good!

  • Quantity vs. Quality in Academia

    Something that has always interested me, and which is especially interesting as I prepare to embark on an academic career, is the question of what qualifies as a worthwhile, academic endeavor (in terms of published works, which is still the most widely used measure of academic value). That is, how tightly reasoned does an argument…

  • Updates, and Merry Christmas!

    All my applications – a whopping 15 total, since I’m applying to do a J.D. and Ph.D. simultaneously, where possible – have been submitted, and I actually received my first acceptance letter, today, to Vanderbilt Law School. That was encouraging. In other news, if you haven’t caught the flu, yet, by all means, get a…