I hate fucking logic games. I hate them. Please, for the love of God, someone tell me what the following has to do with being an attorney or the general practice of law (and this is completely as written in the practice book):
A science student has exactly four flasks-1,2,3,4- originally containing a red, a blue, a green, and an organce chemical respectively. An experiment consists of mixing exactly two of these chemicals together by completely emptying the flask into and of the flasks. The following conditions apply:
1. The product of an experiment cannot be used in further experiments.
2. Mixing contents out of 1 and 2 produces a red chemical
3. Mixing the contents out of 2 and 3 produces an orange
4. Mixing the contents out of 3 with the contents of either 1 or 4 produces a blue chemical
5. Mixing the contents of 4 with the contents of either 1 or 2 produces a green chemical.
What the hell is that? My mother's been an attorney for 28 years and never once has she had to prosecute the case of the Green and Blue Chemicals.
So when you hear me bitch about studying for the LSAT, this is why. In the actual test I have to do four of these, with 5 questions a piece, in 35 minutes. As rabid squirrels bite at my toes, while strung by my elbows above a rabid shark tank. Ok, maybe not that last part, but you get the idea.
Don't get me wrong, Logic Games have a definite place in the real world. Example:
Hala goes out on a first date 4 times a month. On any given evening the gentleman across from her begins to a)sweat profusely, b)hoot, c)check the score of the game on his cell phone or d) is an overbearing Russian creep-fest. Hala goes out on dates on either a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, either in the day or the evening. The following conditions apply:
1. Each of the gentleman has at least one of the above conditions, and possibly more.
2. If Hala goes out with the hooter on Friday, she cannot go out with the Sweaty Guy on Sunday.
3. Hala will not see the Cell Phone Guy in the light of day
4. If Cell Phone Guy is also Sweaty, he will electrocute himself, necessitating a redo of the orignal first date.
5. If Hala has to go on another date with the Russian, someone will end up dead.
Now, if they made questions like that, it would be a cinch, because under no logical circumstances would I ever go out with any of those guys again. But alas, the world of Logic Games for the LSAT is not as simple and straightforward as the cavalcade of horrors that has been my dating history. *Sigh*.
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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