Tag: School

  • 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…

  • Law school applications and a really big tree

    The good news: my law school applications are all in. Now, I just have to wait (my Ph.D. applications are going to get finished on Wednesday of next week). The not so good news: a huge tree (about 60 feet tall, 3 feet thick at the base, and 1.5-2 feet thick for most of the…

  • LSAT Day

    I took the LSAT today (October 2). I think it went really well. I’ll find out on the 25th whether or not that’s true. Meanwhile, one major reason I haven’t updated this often is that it has gotten unwieldy. I plan to give my site a complete overhaul, just as soon as I can finish…

  • University of Chicago

    First and foremost, a bit of good news: I received my acceptance, today, to the M.A. program in Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago. That’s a great program, so I’m quite pleased about that news. Although I haven’t made an official decision on where I’ll be, this is a nice option. [Edited to…

  • 14 days, 17 states, 3,500 miles…

    I’m back! My dad and I just spent two weeks visiting grad schools, traveling from Georgia to North Carolina, Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Tennessee, and back to Georgia. That’s a lot of driving. It took me through some of the nation’s biggest cities (and traffic jams) and some of the most interesting…