Phase Two Complete

Well, I wrote the LSAT on Saturday. It was a near miss, actually. I heard from the good folks at Universidad Nacional de San Agustin in the morning on Tuesday that the test materials hadn't arrived yet. Wednesday morning, they told me the package should arrive Thursday, Friday at the latest. I'm not much of a panicker, so I failed to panic. I remained firm in my conviction that between the LSAC, UPS, and the good people at UNSA, my test materials would arrive on time.

Ha! I went to UNSA Friday morning for a dry run - time the cab ride over there, scope out the testing location, etc. When I arrived, I was told that the test materials had still not arrived. We used the UPS tracking number on the package to check its status, and it was still stranded in Lima - as it had been since November 8th!! Much frantic phoning and emailing ensued, with me contacting my husband to see if their expediter (is that word?) could expedite the shipment . . .

When I went to bed Friday night, I still had no idea whether the test materials would arrive. The woman at LSAC had told me that even if it arrived late, I could start at 2 pm or earlier - I was supposed to start at 8:30 am. Second son woke up at 3:30 am and kept his dad and me up for quite a while, but I was compensated for this by being allowed to sleep in until 6:55 am. Still no sign of the package at 7:30. Or at 8:30. By this time, I was convinced that I would not be writing the LSAT. However, a phone call at 10:15 am confirmed that the package had arrived, and I raced across town to UNSA.

I must have had a wildly different experience than most LSAT writers. I was the only person taking the test, I had the supervisor's office to write in, and since he had never heard of the LSAT and had only a moderate grasp of English, it fell to me to read the Supervisor's Manual and assist him in filling out the necessary paperwork and keeping me in line. It took me about four hours to write the LSAT and the writing sample, including a 15-minute break, and for the most part it sailed by.

So, now all I have to do is wait until January to get my results. Oh, and this is Phase Two because Phase One was submitting my application to law school, which I did in September.