When its time to party we will party hard!

First the big news……I AM DONE WITH THE LSAT (In case you couldn’t figure that out from the title). 5 and a half hours of pain this morning. I was up at 6am thanks to a wake up call from Elijah and wasn’t done until after 2pm. It was a non stop think-rush-write-rush-read-rush-sweat-rush session, but I think I did pretty well.

Yesterday was my day of relax in order to get to the happy place I went and saw a movie, got some new camera toys at the store, and got a massage at Burke Williams. After two half hour steam sessions at the spa and dip in the hot tub, I was ready to fall asleep as soon as I got into bed. I got a ton of rest and woke up ready to kill.

The first section I did was the reading comprehension. I didn’t get to 2 of the questions which isn’t too bad. Then came 3 logical reasoning sections. Two of them went really well with me not getting to 2 questions on one and 3 questions on the other. The one in the middle, however, was MURDEROUS! I didn’t do 6 of the questions and I was unsure about a lot of the ones that I did. Now there are only supposed to be two logical reasoning sections on the exam which means that 1 of the 3 I did was experimental and won’t be graded. I really hope that it was the tough one…..fingers crossed.

The last section of the multiple choice part was the analytical reasoning – AKA logic games from hell. My problem from day one was not that I couldn’t do the questions. I actually found this section to be the easiest one of all and would often get 100% or only 1 wrong when done untimed. The problem came in trying to get through the section in only 35 minutes. I frequently would spend an hour and a half getting through the section. This one section was killing my scores even though it was the section I felt was the easiest (untimed).

I spent the better portion of the last 3 months working on getting through this section quicker….and it looks like my efforts paid off. It was the only section on the actual test that I finished completely and put my pencil down before time was up :):):):):)!!!!!! I felt the most confident about how I did on this section, and can’t wait to see the final score.

I was soooo buzzed coming off this that the writing sample was a breeze. The writing sample is not scored, but it is sent to all the schools along with your scores. My topic was analyzing a short piece written on aging. I had good points and enough time to proof read my essay so I am not too worried about it.

All in all, I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Tomorrow I am going to have a ceremony and throw all the books I used to study in the garbage can :

When i got home from the test, I found a nice little surprise in the mail. My paper diploma has finally arrived. It even includes a signature from the governator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger:

I am so proud:

Anyway….after such a brutal testing day, I NEED some sleep….good night!