There are three acronyms which people seem incapable of pronouncing correctly: SAT, ACT, and FAFSA.

For FAFSA, I understand. The individual letters are not pronounced, and the ‘fs’ combination is unusual in English. Nonetheless, half of humanity seems to think that FAFSA is pronounced “Fass-fuh”. Put the F before the S, FFS.

As for ACT and SAT, there is no excuse.

Like ESPN, the letters ACT and SAT once stood for something, but no longer do. In any case, there is no reason to put an ’s’ at the end of either acronym. You …

In case you haven’t heard it, here is a common anecdote told when people reach an impasse concerning two plausible solutions for one problem:

Two engineering teams, one from the United States and the other from India, were given a problem. The problem concerned simply two poles and the loose wire which connected them. Both teams were told to remove the slack from the wire.

The Americans kept both poles in the ground, cut the wire loose, and retied it. By discarding the excess length, the slack was removed.

The Indian team dug a …

This is a guest article by my friend Dustin Timblin who runs Me and My JD, a blog about his law school experience.

So you’ve decided to go to law school. The first thing you should do after taking that important step is to realize how important your LSAT score is to your overall acceptance chances. The LSAT is often called the “great equalizer” because it levels the playing field across majors and schools in order to more objectively evaluate your chances of success in law school.

The LSAT score is by …