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The surge was not spread evenly by gender, according to the LSAC. The percentage of male applicants grew by nearly 5%, while the increase in female applicants was 1%. Zearfoss speculated that women, who are generally more risk-averse than men, may be more reluctant to take on the debt needed to pay for law school right now. 

The article itself is pretty comprehensive, and worth a read if you have some time to 1) do the reading; 2) convince yourself to follow through on loans for next semester; and 3) maintain your resolve in the face of bleak odds based on cold, unfeeling data.

Lots of people who took the LSAT ultimately decided against going to law school. LSAT takers increased by 13% this year, but there was only a 3% increase in actual applicants.

I don't even have a point to make here, just looking at this data and thinking back to my "Why I Chose Temple Law" post from August 2009 (the post is poorly formatted because it was imported from my old blog, forgive the laziness that prevents me from fixing the formatting).

I'm still happy I'm in school, and still very much want to be a lawyer. And there are far darker fates for your wallet than being a PA resident enrolled in Temple Law.

So I'm not going anywhere.

Via: Wall Street Journal Law Blog
Source: Law.com

Addons to help you stay safe and secure and maintain your privacy on the web while using Firefox. Some are more complicated to use than others, but consider reading and asking other users for help.

The title isn't very pretty, but sitting in Cyberprivacy class compelled me to make sure I was mentioning some of the better extensions I've come across. Targeted, contextual advertising, done well and with full disclosure, can be mutually beneficial to both consumers and marketers.

These extensions are particularly useful if you find yourself bombarded by poorly or nefariously implemented online marketing strategies.

Hopefully, I'll dig up their equivalents for other browsers soon. Any comments, criticisms, suggestions are welcome.

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Andrew Golis, the 26-year-old former deputy publisher of Talking Points Memo, is the man Yahoo has plucked to develop original content on the news side.

I know it's not good personal policy to use comparisons of yourself to others as a basis for self esteem. In fact, I'm alway telling some of my most beloved friends and family about how such comparisons are apples and oranges, and only serve to set us back even further in moments where we're already feeling down on ourselves.

But today I'm 27, and there are lots of people older than me in this world. But now there is officially a new group of people that is younger than me, too.

Aging has never been on my mind. I know people -- some under 30 -- who agonize about every passing birthday (you know who you are...) and really dread the whole idea of getting older.

I wasn't very fond of growing up, but only recently has getting older started to look less than desirable. This guy, Andrew Golis, is probably light-years ahead of where I am for plenty of good reasons. None of which are particularly relevant to my own journey.

But here I am, thinking about 27 years of life. And it's not just because my girlfriend likes to tell me I'm "almost 30" (thanks, Meg, I love you too) but because I'm still annoyed that the whole I-wanna-be-a-lawyer thing took so long to coagulate into something real, something I could commit to and act on.

Timing is everything, though, and I wouldn't have survived law school if I had started after graduating college in 2005. I'm not sure I would even be as engaged in the experience, either.

My classmates in the evening program at Temple Law have rich life experiences that serve to put the law in perspective. In my eyes, that's a premium over and above tuition, and one that many people don't have the luxury of experiencing in law school.

I'm more driven and active these days than i was in college, too. So much so, that I decided to get involved in the Student Bar Association, which will only lead to more enrichment and engagement.

So, yes, some people are light-years ahead of me in life, even if they're a bit younger (don't even mention Mark Zuckerberg), but that's okay. I'm where I want to be, with who I want to be with, doing the things I know I should be doing.

Not bad for a 27-year-old.

The Georgetown grad was miserable working for a large law firm in Silicon Valley. So he quit and posted his degree in the Craigslist “For Sale” section for “the bargain basement price of $59,250″ — the current value of his student loan balance — or best offer.

The final sale price? $592.50--10% of the asking price and decidedly less than the overall cost of the legal education for which the degree holder paid.