Isabel March > Recent Status Updates

It’s insane how many times Hitler could have been stopped and wasn’t. The way there were multiple times he was almost taken down and the plans were abandoned is surprising. I’m enjoying learning more about Hitler’s territorial conquest, I never realized how fast he took over huge areas.

Me when I have nightmare and can’t sleep so I read a chapter of Carmilla in hopes to dream of sapphic vampires and spooky nature next instead (it better work)

There are so many similarities between Hitler’s rise to power and Trump’s “presidency”. I mean yes we can all see that, but WOW there are so many nuances I never knew about that are practically identical. Scaryyyy

This guy is talking a lot of shit about the south and I won’t stand for this slander! He’s basically saying everyone in the south is racist and uneducated. As an AL and FL girly, I’m gonna throw all the Florida oranges at him 🍊

Chapter 5 made me pretty frustrated. This guy will do ANYTHING but name capitalism and recognize we need a completely new social structure to actually save the environment long term.
- Also he’s like “omg why do advertisers misrepresent living a life of voluntary simplicity as regression”? BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY AND THEY WANT YOU TO BUY THEIR PRODUCT DUMBASS. Ok sorry anyone reading this

Chapter 5 made me pretty frustrated. This guy will do ANYTHING but name capitalism and recognize we need a completely new social structure to actually save the environment long term.
- Also he’s like “omg why do advertisers misrepresent living a life of voluntary simplicity as regression”? BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A CAPITALIST SOCIETY AND THEY WANT YOU TO BUY THEIR PRODUCT DUMBASS. Ok sorry anyone reading this

Forgot to update this yesterday!

Only one more chapter to go! Today I learned how to deal with parallel reasoning, principle conform, and parallel flaw questions. I also made flashcards for them. I’m feeling pretty good about most of this book! I’m so ready to be done with it though (hopefully tomorrow)!

Ch 10 done! I’m about to make flashcards. Tomorrow I’ll read chapter 11.

Did more of chapter 10, this is a long one! I’m gonna finish it and do flash cards tomorrow I’m so tired goodnight

I finished chapter 9! It was about the rest of the “powerful” questions and answers. Now I’m going to make flashcards and study them before moving on to chapter 10.

I read half of chapter 9 today. I was hoping to do it all, but these damn chapters take so long I spent over 3 hours doing half of one. It’s so info and practice dense, but that’s good! Anyway, today I looked at powerful vs provable questions and found how to try and find the best answer choice. Also, how to eliminate the worst ones!

Finished chapter 8! I find that learning how to “make a mission” for questions was so helpful, and learning how DAPP and CLIR match up together, then correspond to SW SCCR. (Sorry to any of my friends reading this and being confused it’s just notes for me to remember where things are in the book hehe) Using acronyms helps me a lot!

I did most of chapter 8, this one is so long. The way it took me over 4 hours to do 17 pages because of how dense they are and the amount of work that you have to do outside the book too… ughhh I WILL PERSIST (but damn this is exhausting)! I did lots of drills and worked on the “CLIR” way of looking at questions.

I had dance club for 4 hours today and had to do hw for my African dance class so I did less here than I wanted, but that’s ok because I can do extra tomorrow! I did about 1/3 of chapter 8, learning about the “CLIR” and getting deeper into designing specific types of loopholes for specific types of questions.

I finished ch 7 and made flashcards of all 16 classic flaws. I then studied them and took the end of chapter quiz. This one went pretty well for me! I’m gonna need to study at a fast pace now bc my test date is approaching fast :| but it’s ok!!

Forgot to update this yesterday, I did 1/2 of chapter 7. It’s about the classic flaws seen in arguments and key patterns of (flawed) reasoning to look out for. It’s helpful and I love that there’s real LSAT examples!

I did chapter 6, finally a short one! I learned about causal reasoning and got strong reminders that correlation ≠ causation! I learned about how to attack these vulnerable causal arguments made by the LSAT people by using the three omitted options. I also learned the 4 possible explanations for when event A and event B are correlated.

I finished chapter 5 and did the quiz at the end. I only missed part of one question, yay!
I think before moving on to chapter 6, I’ll make some flashcards and do some more basic translation drills.

Did a big drill on diagramming all diff kinds of conditionals. I did pretty good and made notes of the sections I was weaker on to re visit!
Also started ch 5: about assumptions. I learned about necessary and sufficient assumptions and how to create the assumption chain.