Law School Applications

The November 1st deadline looms. I’m still not done my law school applications. So much work, so little time. Things I’ve completed:

• POL218 essay outline
• POL218 presentation handout
• PHL247 assignment
• Third declension Latin nouns and third conjugation verbs

Things left to do:

• POL336 thought pieces
• The rest of the Latin language
• FLSS improvements
• Tracking software
• Readings, readings, readings

And of course law school applications. The guide says to have them done three weeks in advance of the deadline. Oops. I’ve gotten my academic reference (I think). I need to check up on that tomorrow. Hopefully I’m a brilliant student with a sharp analytic mind. I haven’t got my non-academic reference, but that is coming along.

The OLSAS software is exceedingly frustrating. I wonder if they would guarantee me admission to UofT if I offered to rewrite it for them. I shouldn’t trash it too much online, the techies might find my blog and delete my account or something. But dear Lord, what kind of idiocy is that 30 character limit on activity details? They ask you to provide the year and type of the activity and then give you 30 characters to explain what it was. I can’t even write the name of some of the companies I’ve worked for in that space. And what is the solution they’ve come up with? Enter a duplicate entry with the rest of the details. Why not just give us more space?

I would rewrite the thing for free, just to save future generations the pain that I’m enduring.

Next up is my personal statements. York needs two. Grrr. Well, at least I have something to put in there: “I knew more about law than most of your graduates when I was 12 years old.” I don’t think they would appreciate that, though. I’ll say it more long-windedly and politely.

In completely unrelated new: Kubuntu 7.10 is out in four days! Huzzah. I’m not really sure why I’m excited. I’m doing quite fine with what I have. But I do like reinstalling things.