We were beset by technical difficulties here at ATL yesterday (as we explained in our Twitter feed). We apologize for the site outages; hopefully the situation will be better next week.
At least we didn’t have to go out in the snow. Our brethren in D.C. were not as fortunate. The Washington Post reports:
The full weight of winter brought life in much of the Washington region to a standstill Saturday as a storm predicted to be one of the most powerful on record dumped 12 to 21 inches of snow overnight. …
[O]fficials pleaded with people to stay off the roads until conditions improve. People were confined to their homes by the mountains of snow, many in the dark as trees brought down power lines.
Stay off the roads? But we’ve got an LSAT to take, damn it.
That’s right, despite the cries of local officials — to say nothing of logic and common sense — Georgetown decided to plow through with its administration of a February LSAT exam. Those who had to travel to Georgetown were not happy:
I don’t know if its hubris or obliviousness, but Georgetown University has decided that despite SNOWPOCALYPSE 2.0, they will still be having their February LSAT tomorrow. They must think that the only people signed up to take it at their University are Georgetown students, but they would be wrong. As a result, I’m now facing the options of either a) somehow make it from Old Town to Georgetown at 8am tomorrow in the blizzard (approx. 5 miles and the public transportation is all shut down) or b) not showing up and losing my money to LSAC, getting an “absence” on my score sheet and having to pay the full amount to take it in June.
Tests were canceled all across Virginia, Maryland, and the District. But according to this list of test center closings provided by LSAC, the Georgetown location was open for business.
So … did anybody actually show up to take the LSAT? I wouldn’t be surprised. Taking the LSAT right now is an indication that you haven’t been paying a lot of attention to reports of legal economy disaster; why would you take heed of natural snowy disasters?
How did it go? Feel free to talk about your winter LSAT here in the comments this weekend, or the day after tomorrow.
Snowstorm’s intensity has D.C. region hunkering down [Washington Post]
Inclement Weather Closings [LSAC]
Earlier: Winter Storm Warning: D.C. and Philly Firm Closings?
First to resort to cannibalism
Business as usual at G-town: administering the LSAT and demolishing Villanova.
First to congratulate #1 for having a sense of humor and an imagination. That meme was getting tired. 9/10
Georgetown means business!!!
- Proud G’town Grad
When the lawyering gets tough, the Hoyas get lawyering!
I was registered for it, but didn’t go – there was literally no way to get there from downtown DC, short of a two-hour + walk through an early-morning blizzard. LSAC folks said we could write a letter explaining the circumstances and not have to pay again. Am really hoping to get into one of the local makeup sessions scheduled for next weekend.
Georgetown Forever!
Georgetown is a festering toilet.
Fellow Americans! the only thing we have to fear is fear itself! Let’s brave this historical storm, the unemployment storm, and the deficit storm (ahead) the way the Hoyas did today!
- President Wannabe
Hoya Saxa! Suck it, Nova.
The test was at Georgetown’s main campus, not the law school (which near Union Station).
It’s PUSSY FART time; bitches, let ‘em RIP!
“there was literally no way to get there from downtown DC, short of a two-hour + walk through an early-morning blizzard”
How did thousands of people manage to fill the Verizon Center then? You don’t have the tenacity to be a lawyer. I suggest you consider another line of work.
Anybody dumb enough to go out in 20+ inches of snow to take the LSAT truly deserves the excitement, challange and rewards of a mediocre career as an attorney.
Anybody dumb enough to go out in 20+ inches of snow to take the LSAT truly deserves the excitement, challange and rewards of a mediocre career as an attorney.
13,
Maybe because the verizon center is in downtown DC?
Ok Elie, I occasionally feel bad for the ribbing you get in these comments, but how in the world can you caption this piece with a “Georgetown Law” picture when the test was administered on the other side of the city at the Georgetown main campus – a much more difficult location to get to, a fact that in turn would have added to the underlying point that it’s ridiculous the test wasn’t canceled?
The closest the subway gets to Georgetown’s main campus is either Foggy Bottom or Dupont, and from there, it is a half-hour walk in GOOD weather to the main campus. Today, with no busses running, it would probably take an hour of slipping and sliding to get there.
And, unless one lives within walking distance of a subway station that is underground, it would be difficult to impossible to even get on the subway.
16
But the students who made up most of the attendance did not come from Downtown DC
why the hell is the LSAT administered at the university and not at GULC? GULC is a terrible, terrible place, but at least it is more convenient.
6,
YOU’LL GET IN EVERYWHERE YOU APPLY. YOU’RE MAKING A WONDERFUL DECISION TO GO TO LAW SCHOOL.
21-
Why you be hatin’?
-Not 6
out of curiosity, does anyone know what the LSAC is doing for those whose exam was canceled?
I got bored after the first paragraph as there was no indication this story would lead to a sexual encounter.
I took the LSAT at Georgetown this morning, walked about 3 miles to get there from Adams Morgan. There was really no way to get there other than walking or if you had an SUV, as most of the streets between Wisconsin Ave and campus were not plowed at all.
Don’t forget- to get to the main campus today, you’d have had to walk uphill on snow-covered brick sidewalks or cobblestone streets. The decision to go ahead with the exam as planned strikes me as reckless.
I saw someone walking back on M Street from Georgetown U in two feet of snow with the requisite exam-taker’s plastic bag filled with pencils and stuff. Thought it was probably for something like the LSAT and remember thinking that this was kind of a rough day for it.
I am not first, but I am just trying to be yet another dbag.
This was a short-sighted, irresponsible, ignorant move, typical of the Georgetown administration.
For the uninitiated, the location of today’s LSAT on Georgetown University Main Campus is 1.5+ miles away from the nearest metro stop — across a bridge from VA in a white out blizzard with 40mph winds, followed by about a mile uphill on brick and cobblestone streets (as already noted by at least one commenter). All above ground metro stations have been closed since yesterday, and Metro buses are not running, so if you were almost anywhere outside the District there was no means of getting even 1.5+ miles away via public transport. The DOT of the State of MD begged people to stay off the roads today due to poor driving conditions, and VA and DC made similar pronouncements. Most roads still are not plowed. There are downed trees and power lines over many streets. Hundreds of thousands of people are without power.
In contrast, the Verizon Center is located over a Metro stop. A large percentage of today’s game crowd included students from main campus, and main campus plowed itself out and provided ground transportation. Other guests included the likes of Nancy Pelosi. I doubt she shovels her own driveway. If you watched the game closely on TV, you would have seen that many seats in the non-student section were empty. There’s been talk of giving patrons who couldn’t show a refund. As discussed by today’s TV announcers, Georgetown and Nova seriously considered canceling the game due to weather, and came within a hair’s breath of doing so.
Also, let us recall that the LSAT started at 8am, and test takers had to be there at least 30 minutes before that. The basketball game didn’t start until after 12pm — giving at least 4.5 extra hours in daylight to dig out and travel.
Georgetown might have been great today on the court, but once again its administration missed the forest for the trees.
-GU SFS/GULC
LOL 29 posts as if “GU SFS/GULC” is prestigious.
Sorry about your tiny pink T10 rejections bro
GU College/CLS/DPW SECURE
I once ran a mile in over 12 inches of snow to get LOST season 2 at Blockbuster (got Netflix after the experience). Anyhow, (1) there are way too many lawyers and hopefully the snow has given at least a few potential students the opportunity to re-think the “avalanche” of debt they will incur, with potentially minimal job prospects, upon graduation; but (2) if you were registered and really, really, really wanted to be a lawyer, you would have slapped a tampon on and braved the snow. If you are in your 20’s and not obese, you are a pussy for not going. If you are obese, you are truly disgusting (unless you have “big boned”) and will never be able to get clients so its for the best you couldnt go.
How badass was it when Sayid came back to life in Lost’s season premier last week btw? RIP Jacob.
seeeeeeee yaaaaa
30-
29 here. “Prestige” had nothing to do with it. I stated the schools to indicate I had personal knowledge of both Main Campus and GULC. If it were about prestige, I might have mentioned my 2 other Ivy League degrees.
So you went to GU College, huh? Not surprising. People like you are one of the reasons why I transferred out of GU SFS to an Ivy League undergrad. It was so much nicer to go to school with people who didn’t have insecurity issues.
Hope you’re at least letting your tight ass cool off in a snow drift.
-29
29-
Funny how you mention insecurity issues in the same paragraph in which you drop the fact that you attended Ivy League institutions.
Sorry you couldn’t complete your “upward” trend, since you’re stuck at GULC. You’re probably working at Skadden or something LOL.
-30
30 should kill himself.
30 = asshat.
Get worse, stain.
Jacob dies in the season premier of Lost. Sayid dies but comes back to life at the end of the episode as Jacob.
Suckers!
- Well-Adjusted Secure
What’s the matter with you DC sissies? Here in Colorado, we can always find a way to get to the ski hill when the University calls a snow day.
Anyone know how many people showed up to take the exam?
G’town’s location leaves something to be desired. It’s next to the largest homeless shelter in the U.S. My car got broken into twice during my summer internship there.
Sean Murphy! Sean Murphy! Sean Murphy!
40 – You’re talking about GULC. The Main Campus (where the test was administered) is on the complete other side of the city. GULC is in a sh*thole area safety wise, but Main Campus is in a shitty area transportation wise.
Why the hell are you Pre-L’s taking the LSAT? (Unless you have genuinely wanted to be an attorney since first grade), no matter what you manage to score on the LSAT = Logical Reasoning FAIL
.
CHECK YOU ECONOMY
–underemployed ’secure’
29/32 must have gone to either Penn or Cornell–they’re the only dopes insecure enough to brag about having gone to an “Ivy League school”.
36 – Darn you!
Isn’t it better to have the option to take the test rather than for the test to be canceled entirely? I’m not sure what policies LSAC has in place, but I know those tests are closely guarded and the LSAC wouldn’t take lightly the possibility of canceling.
In any event, this was a move by Georgetown Main Campus, not Georgetown Law, so the graphic reading “Georgetown Law” is completely wrong.
maybe, just maybe, someone is telling you that you shouldn’t go to law school. just sayin’
Why are people such freaking wussies in D.C.? Two feet of snow, that’s nothing, you sissy Marys. Of course, we’re taliking about a city that shuts down with two inches, even.
# 48 I think the correct term is “Nancy” and not “Mary”.
CHECK YOU SNOWSTORM.
Georgetown wasn’t as lucky when they got beat down by a real basketball team–Syracuse!
@48. DC’s definitely pansy-ish about snow. As my neighbor commented, in New York they have these magical things called snow plows. Here, instead, half of our block banded together to shovel our way out to a plowed road. That’s the big thing. It’s not so much that DC got a lot of snow. It’s that DC is woefully unprepared for snow.