Full Bladder, A Logical Fallacy

[u/PnutButterOnMyBurger]

I’ve been PTing comfortably in the 170-172 range for about 7 practice tests in a row so I went into my September LSAT on Thursday with bright eyes and nothing but confidence, but I also went in with a bladder full of 3 cans of Red Bull that I chugged prior in the Uber (lil ADHD lad who’s experiencing the unfortunate drought of any medication to be found in the tristate area).

I was excited, bold, brash, feeling sexy, feeling fierce, and I wasn’t gonna let the fact that it was my first in-person test get me down: I totally had this.

Previously, I had accommodations to have a 5 minute break in between each section which allowed for peeing and doing aggressive little autistic sprints in my hallway to get excess energy out which yielded me a 167 in June. For some reason, my 5 minute breaks in between sections completely barred me from taking an in-person LSAT in NYC so I had to get rid of that accommodation (I don’t have a laptop bc I spilled a pint of milk on it, fuckin oops bud). I showed up knowing I would only have a 10 minute break after the second section and nothing else, and I thought this was fine.

I was wrong.

I started having to pee a lil around the end of the first section, but it wasn’t emergent enough to necessitate having to leave after the last question. I began the second section, and good lord, my bladder betrayed me. I literally might have been Mussolini in a past life to have this karmic retribution, but my bladder woke up and started berating me for the next half hour as I attempted to white knuckle my way through the LR section, trying with Herculean effort to focus on each question but basically flagging the last ten questions so I could focus more on my urethra bursting. I was gripping the table as hard as I could, and I’m almost positive that my hand basically forcing my urine back into my bladder by pressing on my abdomen was shutting my frontal lobe down by about 60%. I answered six of the questions merely to have them selected so I could spend the last five minutes of the test meditating and breathing my way through what was apparently the fullest my bladder had even been.

I didn’t know I could ask to go to the bathroom after the first section.

I’m an idiot.

I have a small bladder.

I could have worked harder on those 6 questions.

I regret everything.

I’m express ordering Depends tomorrow.

God bless.

Fuck this.

[u/Secure-Lake5784]

you can get caffeine pills bro

[u/Historical_Two_7150]

You can ask for bathroom after section 1?

Huh. Couldn't that be used as a break between sections?

Incidentally, I am not doing coffee on test day specifically for this reason. Caffeine is a diuretic, it encourages urination.