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@SamuelRamirez Thanks for the reply, and good luck with any applications you might be working on yourself! :)
Since starting college, I've earned most of my income by working for my school in various capacities. As a student, I held a part-time work-study position during the school year, and then I also worked 40 hours a week for them on campus for my summer job each year. After graduating, I continued to work for them as a full-time employee in their office (I know this sounds a little crazy, but they're just a great organization and awesome to work for!).
I feel confident that I can configure my resume to explain this history in a way that's not too confusing, but I'm struggling with how to fit it into the more rigid formatting of the employment questions found on many applications. They ask you to list all employment, including internships, so I kind of assume they want to know about work I did as a college student, but since you have to add all the entries by employer, rather than by position, I'm unsure what the best way to go about it is. Overall, I've worked for the same organization for over six years, but it's not like I've been doing the same thing/number of hours there for all that time, so it doesn't feel accurate to just list "X University, August 2020-Oct 2026".
There also was one random summer after freshman year of college when I went home and worked as a waitress instead--should I be listing that here, or on my resume, or not at all? Please tell me if I'm overthinking this! 😅
this was a very strange question. POE was the way I initially got to the right choice.
Because those quotes are from the author's presentation of one way someone could reason about the issue--the author doesn't actually say that he agrees with that reasoning or thinks it's the right way of thinking about it. He certainly seems sympathetic to the argument, but stops short of actually throwing his weight behind it.
He's basically presenting a hypothetical: "someone might argue in this way and say all this stuff". The first sentence of the next paragraph could say "Even though that argument seems obvious and natural, here's why it actually doesn't work", and there wouldn't be any contradiction in the passage, since he didn't actually espouse the view he described.
I hope that's helpful! :)
It's true that the reasoning in the argument is correlational, but the stem isn't asking us to evaluate the strength of the argument--rather, we're just trying to figure out which AC follows best as a conclusion to the argument presented in the stimulus (i.e., given that the stimulus is arguing via correlation, what does the correlation suggest?).
You're right, though, that it's not a very strong argument; it's possible that some other thing besides stress is causing one group of patients to feel less pain. I would also question the argument's assumption that not knowing is always more stressful than knowing... I could imagine someone who knows they need open heart surgery being more stressed than someone who still thinks maybe they won't!
This is an interesting one, because the stimulus might make you think you're looking for an error--the study (as described in the stimulus) has a kind of obvious flaw: people who are about to drop dead are not likely to be getting much exercise. I was surprised when I saw the question stem, but noticing the flaw in the study actually made it way easier to find the correct answer; I knew it needed to be something that would remove/weaken any causal relationship that implied being healthy was the reason people exercised.
Answer choice D does that--it makes it random that some people exercised and some people didn't, making it more plausible that exercise could have been the cause of health, rather than the other way around.
@JacobBaska This is super helpful, thank you! The insurance situation might be out of my control, but hopefully I can manage to avoid any nefarious kitten-related adventures... :)
Many of the schools I'm applying to have questions about whether I've ever been a party in a civil action; here's an example from one application:
"Have you ever been a complainant, party or witness to or otherwise involved in any civil or criminal action, proceeding or investigation?"
I haven't yet been involved in something like this, but coincidentally a few months ago, I was in a pretty serious car accident, and I'm currently working with an injury attorney on a personal injury claim. The case may be settled in the next month with the insurance company, but it may not--it's a whole mess having to do with the possibility of opening up the policy, and I'm guessing that would end up involving a civil suit of some kind.
Any advice on how to answer this question? One other factor is that I'm taking the November LSAT, so my application likely won't be reviewed until December anyway. Should I just wait a few months to see how this turns out? Do I need to update the Admissions department for each school if a lawsuit ends up being filed after I submit my application?
@JacobBaska Thank you for this advice!