(Unsolicited) Advice for people who have been admitted to law school and are thinking about deferring for a year: DO IT.

(Unsolicited) Advice for people who have been admitted to law school and are thinking about deferring for a year: DO IT. JUST DO IT. 

And use that time wisely: take classes that emulate first-year law school classes. Work as a paralegal (I would advise that you do this straight out of college for 2~3 years before going to law school). 

Or just fu*king take a bar review course or a FYLSE review course if those things are not available to you. The courses may look expensive, but there are *relatively* cheap online courses available. So DO IT. 

Don't be stupid and be like, oh I'm going to take a year to ENJOY my life before the hell gates of 1L open~~~ YOLO~~~ That is just being dumb, and you can have the time of your life after you're done with the bar exam (assuming you've passed). 

JUST SHUT UP AND do everything in your power to TAKE A BAR REVIEW COURSE or a 1L-prep course before you actually start law school. KNOW THE LAW before you start 1L.  It will be SO WORTH IT. I PROMISE.

You will be so thankful I gave you this advice. It will be the best advice you ever listen to. This is the best advice that no one ever gave me, so here it is, available on the internet for everyone to see.

Exodus 23, Joshua 14

출애굽기 23장

30 나는 너희가 번성하여 그 땅을 너희의 소유로 차지할 때까지, 그들을 너희 앞에서 조금씩 쫓아내겠다.

31 내가 너희 땅 경계를 홍해에서 블레셋 바다까지, 광야에서 유프라테스 강까지로 정하고, 그 땅에 사는 사람들을 너희 손에 넘겨줄 터이니, 너희가 그들을 쫓아내어라.

Exodus 23 (ESV)

30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land. 

31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates, for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you. 

Joshua 14:12

12 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”

20211001

Wow. It's October (already!) and the weather is changing. 

So, a few updates, in reverse chronological order:

1. Just called my manager at G - she says I can put my membership on hold! I was so worried that I would have to just give up my remaining membership or pay more money for an extension, but my manager said "You can put it on hold of course! " like it's the easiest thing in the world. So PHEW! That was a MAJOR thing that made my heart heavy going into this journey and I'm so glad I decided to call G today and not put it off (again)!

1-1. Now that I spend a LOT of time thinking about myself (okay that sounds selfish/weird), I feel that, if I can get past this chapter of my life successfully, I might actually want to meet someone. Like, I'm getting a strong-ish feeling (or more like a current or force that I can't or won't really fight) that that is the next thing on my to-do list. So... I really shouldn't expect or even hope for a miracle like HC to happen again (

2.  I passed the MPRE and the NYLE!!!!! (Now I just have to pass the actual, biggest exam.......) Just got my NYLE results this morning and although I knew I would have passed, it was such a big relief to see the words PASS on the results screen! GOD I hope more than anything to see the same thing on my UBE results report!!!!! But every time I get a PASS report card I use it as an excuse to take that day easy (and NOT study)... I wanted to celebrate with 떡볶이 today but had already bought sandwiches... maybe tomorrow?

3. I've got a massive (?) haircut. I haven't cut my hair this short in 10 years! I really like how much less hair I have to wash in the shower every day, but... the style I wanted was to make me look serious and focused, but the style my hairdresser gave me was........ CUTE. I look like Hailey Mills (was that her name?) in The Parent Trap (the original, old movie!). Don't get me wrong, it really is pretty, it's just not was I was going for..... Maybe when I go for a trim I will ask the hairdresser to cut off more from the sides and back. Or I might just keep it as it is, dunno. Don't care so much anyway, as long as it's just short and easy to manage, because I'm not going to meet any humans for the next five months anyway...

4. Miscellaneous

Other than that, I've put on a bit of weight (I was so confident that I would lose weight, back in July when I was running every morning), and feeling really lonely at times. And watching waaaaaaaaay too much Youtube. But it has led to some great discoveries like 구교환, epilepsy - focal seizures, Jessica Kellgran-Fozart (not sure I got that right), 양브로의 정신세계, 위라클, etc. 

I looked at emails from 7~8 years ago and realized so, so, many people tried to help me. But I was soooooo underprepared/underqualified to make use of all their help. I really don't know what I could have done at that point because I feel like I should have dropped out of took leave from law school after my first semester.