Work Friday before the LSAT - or take it off? Forum

[berkeleynick]

I am wondering whether I should take the day before the LSAT off. Part of me thinks it would be good to rest the day before, and maybe do some very light reviewing, but another part of me thinks if I stay home I'll just be a nervous wreck the whole day. For those of you who work, are you planning on taking the day before off or not? I was also maybe thinking of taking a half-day. Thoughts appreciated!

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[Username123]

I am wondering whether I should take the day before the LSAT off. Part of me thinks it would be good to rest the day before, and maybe do some very light reviewing, but another part of me thinks if I stay home I'll just be a nervous wreck the whole day. For those of you who work, are you planning on taking the day before off or not? I was also maybe thinking of taking a half-day. Thoughts appreciated!

I am definitely taking the day off. Probabl going to review a tiny bit throughout the day - maybe a logic game, a RC passage and five or so LR questions. I am going to the practice test site just to be comfortable with where it is (I don't live right down the street from it and have never been there before) and am gonna double check^100 that I have everything required and needed for Saturday. I might even work a half day Thursday, but that's still up in the air.

[akechi]

I have decided not to take the day off. I am trying to treat the test date the same as any other day.

Nerves / anxiety contributed to an undesired score on the June '14 exam. So I am going in with the mindset that it's just another PT.

[mornincounselor]

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[BJS]

I took the day off last year and was called in for a conference. Attending was a horrible decision and I got home at 5pm that evening exhausted. This year, I'm only taking off Thursday and Friday, but I won't answer my work phone or open my email. Take the day off. Your mind needs the time to decompress from the stress of work and prepare for the stress of the test.

[Gray]

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[BJS]

decompress from the stress of work and prepare for the stress of the test.

Ugh.... life.

And then stress about personal statements, applications, status checkers, decision letters, and scholarship negotiations...

The evening of Sept 27, however, my girlfriend and I are celebrating our two year anniversary. So I have at least one thing to be excited about.

[hillz]

I'm just taking the afternoon off before. I took the whole day off in June (since it was a Monday) but it didn't help because people from work kept calling me about stressful stuff. I tried to ignore, but still. And I had to go straight in to the office after the test. The timing was pretty bad, so I'm excited about a Saturday morning test.

[berkeleynick]

Let's throw a post-LSAT rager for all us working folk! Lol.

[hillz]

Let's throw a post-LSAT rager for all us working folk! Lol.

YES!!! I think my co-workers are ready for this to be over too...they've heard way too much about law school apps & the LSAT.

[sfoglia]

Only taking a half day. I'm going to be a nervous wreck, I'm sure, so I'd like to keep myself a distracted as possible.

[Nonconsecutive]

I'd recommend doing whatever will help you sleep best that night. If not going to work would make it harder for you to sleep since it would be an irregular schedule, I would go to work. [Full disclosure I worked the day before my LSAT just to keep things normal]

[MadwomanintheAttic]

I took most of the week off, except Monday and Tuesday. My co-workers/management have no idea about my law school plans. I'm constantly studying, but I've told them it's for a logic class and LSAT stands for Logic Students Applications Textbook. They think I'm taking a mini-vacation, nope just leaving one level of hell for another...

[03152016]

take the day before off
keep the prep light
do something relaxing and fun
don't drink alcohol
don't drink caffeine if you can help it
make sure your roomies know not to be loud assholes (mine were)

more important is probably the lead-up
make sure you're getting to bed and waking up at a certain time, follow a routine
take melatonin if it helps

[Colonel_funkadunk]

LSAT stands for Logic Students Application Textbook

Is this for real? Lol

[MadwomanintheAttic]

LSAT stands for Logic Students Application Textbook

Is this for real? Lol

True story. #1 motivation for law school is a chance for a job with more intelligent co-workers or at least ones that aren't so gullible. But I'm pretty proud I came up an alternate meaning for LSAT on such short notice

[Lying Lawyer]

Unfortunately I don't have the option. I work for myself and it will depend what I'm doing. If I am in the middle of a property I'll be remodeling. Sometimes I'm just hauling materials back and forth from Home Depot for my crew. If I don't have a property I will have to be attending the auction in the morning. It's not bad because it ends by noon but I usually spend the rest of the afternoon prepping for Monday. I can probably push it back til Saturday afternoon or Sunday. It will put a squeeze on me, but I'm going to have to.