HarvardReady

Disclaimer: I have no particular affinity for any one political party over another. Frankly, I find Canadian politics somewhat boring. When’s the last time we had a Prime Minister caught in an affair with an intern?

So, I was driving on my way to a student the other morning. After having listened to Miley Cyrus play for the 3rd time in a span of what was probably about 23 minutes, I noticed the radio station abruptly switched to an ominous piece of background music. This was going to be serious. continue reading…

Sure, there are other aspects to the law school application process that require your extensive devotion. On top of keeping a solid set of grades throughout your undergraduate career, you’ll also have to hunt down that perfect professor to write your reference letter for you, chronicle all your life experiences into a neat CV, and write numerous personal statements highlighting why you’d make the perfect law student. Those statements will have to be written, proof-read, and re-written countless times until you’ve perfected them – your competition will be doing no less. continue reading…

Yeaaah. You know exactly what I’m talking about. Those questions that seem to terrify a not-so-insignificant chunk of the test taking populace. The ones that, as you turn the page cause you to wonder, if only for a moment, whether you accidentally stumbled into a Reading Comprehension passage.

Of course, that doesn’t last long and, almost instinctively, you skip over to the next question that doesn’t take up approximately half the page. I mean, it makes sense right? Why bother reading what could pass off for a small country’s entire constitution, when in that time, you can run through at least two or three of the next questions? Maybe even take a short nap? continue reading…