Lawl School.

In the last ten months, some things have happened.

I took my LSAT.
I was asked to be on Jeopardy!
I applied to law schools.
I chose a law school.
I moved to a new state (containing said chosen law school).

It's a lot of things I could've and maybe should've blogged about. In that time, I've toyed with the idea of blogging my 1L year. For those of you unfamiliar with the terms, law school is three years, and classes are designated 1L, 2L, and 3L. 1L is the crazy stressful busy insane and hopefully still somehow fun year that is the most important of the three, and yet also, the one where nobody knows what he or she is doing. FUN!

Day 29

Really the home stretch, and I am becoming the constant bundle of wrecked nerves to prove it.

Today's question: It's the principle of the thing.

Jack's aunt gave him her will, asking him to make it public when she died; he promised to do so. After her death, Jack looked at the will; it stipulated that all her money go to her friend George. Jack knew that if he made the will public, George would squander the money, benefiting neither George nor anyone else. Jack also knew that if he did not make the will public, the money would go to his own mother, who would use it to benefit herself and others, harming no one. After reflection, he decided not to make the will public.

Which one of the following principles, if valid, would require Jack to act as he did in the situation described?

(A) Duties to family members take priority over duties to people who are not family members.

(B) Violating a promise is impermissible whenever doing so would become known by others.

(C) One must choose an alternative that benefits some and harms no one over an alternative that harms some and benefits no one.

(D) When faced with alternatives it is obligatory to choose whichever one will benefit the greatest number of people.

(E) A promise becomes nonbinding when the person to whom the promise was made is no longer living.

Day 28

Well kids, we're down to the wire here. I've just found out that, despite everything I've read about having scratch paper for the games, that is FALSE, and the only paper we have to work with is the blank spaces in the text booklets. Oh, splendiferous! Because I needed something else to worry about--AND needed that thing to be, Hey, this test is already hard, and we're going to make it even more difficult by having you sketch the games really small, MWAHAHAHAHAHA!

But I will soldier on.

Let's talk about quasars!

Quasars--celestial objects so far away that their light takes at least 500 million years to reach Earth--have been seen since 1963. For anything that far away to appear from Earth the way quasars do, it would have to burn steadily at a rate that produces more light than 90 billion suns would produce. But nothing that burns at a rate that produces that much light could exist for more than about 100 million years.

If the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true on the basis of them?

(A) Instruments in use before 1963 were not sensitive enough to permit quasars to be seen.

(B) Light from quasars first began reaching Earth in 1963.

(C) Anything that from Earth appears as bright as a quasar does must produce more light than would be produced by 90 billion suns.

(D) Nothing that is as far from Earth as quasars are can continue to exist for more than about 100 million years.

(E) No quasar that has ever been seen from Earth exists any longer.

Day 27

7. If the Hausa grammar and the phonology monograph are on the same shelf, which one of the following must be true?

(A) The phonology monograph is on the third shelf.

(B) The Vonnegut novel is on the second shelf.

(C) The semantics monograph is on the second shelf.

(D) The semantics monograph is on the first shelf.

(E) The Woolf novel is on the third shelf.

Day 26

6. If the Farsi grammar is not on the third shelf, which one of the following could be true?

(A) The phonology monograph is on the second shelf.

(B) The Hausa grammar is on the second shelf.

(C) The semantics monograph is on the third shelf.

(D) The Vonnegut novel is on the third shelf.

(E) The Woolf novel is on the second shelf.

Day 25

5. Which one of the following must be true?

(A) A linguistics monograph is on the first shelf.

(B) No more than one novel is on each shelf.

(C) The Farsi grammar is not on the same shelf as the Hausa grammar.

(D) The semantics monograph is not on the same shelf as the Woolf novel.

(E) The Woolf novel is not on the first shelf.

Day 24

4. If both grammars are on the same shelf, which one of the following could be true?

(A) The phonology monograph is on the third shelf.

(B) A novel is on the first shelf.

(C) Both novels are on the second shelf.

(D) The Farsi grammar is on the second shelf.

(E) The phonology monograph is on the first shelf.