TRIP REPORT: Took the LSAT today with no studying and 1.5 g magic mushrooms

Hey all, throwaway for obvious reasons. Today I took the LSAT without studying. Well, I mean, maybe a few drills here or there, but nowhere near the studying you need for a test like this. Earlier this week, I realized I was pretty fucked, so I decided “why not be the first person to take the LSAT on shrooms?”

Well, I took a gram and a half about 40 minutes before the test and man that was a time. I also hit a few blinkers, but I don’t really count those. It was a light trip but in a new setting with strangers, so it got pretty intense. I walked in and signed my name, and then proceeded to wait in the waiting room while the dude took like 10 mins for every security screening. I was waiting for it to kick in and almost thought I didn’t take enough. But then I stood up and shit kicked in IMMEDIATELY. I thought it wasn’t obvious but the prometric dude looked me up and down, then said “are you going to be okay to take the test today, sir?” So I think he knew I was lit off of something.

Onto the test. I didn’t experience many visuals but the testing cubby felt HUGE. Like it felt like I was in a gymnasium. I think it was a mental distortion of my depth perception rather than what I would more readily call a “hallucination.”

LR was surprisingly easy. I thought I would get distracted or lost in thought, but I think it was a light enough trip that I was able to stay fairly clear. I also think that it helped me look at some of the passages and answers from a different perspective. All three LR sections felt great, which means I either did awesome or terribly.

RC was much, much harder. I would be completely locked into a question and then forget the entire passage. I barely finished RC on time, but I actually think I may have done okay.

Then came the break. Oh man, it was a BAD idea to go to the bathroom. The sheer act of standing up and transitioning sent me into a second wind. I had some minor visuals in the mirror (losing the ability to recognize the face, seeing all the veins and skin rather than the face), but I’m pretty used to mirror visuals so it didn’t bother me. I went to piss and my guy was pinched tighter than Hank Hill, so I had to really force it. In doing so, somehow I pissed all over my pants in a very visible way. Immediately, the tone of the trip changed. I got really sad (typical penis envy, tbh) and down on myself because I had just pissed myself in the testing center. I then had to go through security screening again, which I gotta say was pretty rough in that state.

LR 2 was a little easier in terms of the problems, but I was much more distracted. I definitely ate up several minutes of time going through an existential crisis. Cried a bit but, again, penis envy.

LR 3 was probably the hardest for me, but I actually finished it with the most time left of any section. The trip had kinda chilled out at this point and I felt more normal.

No issues checking out or anything! I think prometric doesn’t care if you’re fucked up, for anyone wondering in the future. That one guy DEFINITELY knew I was high on something, and I got the impression that he was a supervisor.

They would not let me vape during breaks because they don’t let you outside, at least at my testing center.

Overall, I think this was a fun way to conduct a planned failure. And I actually ended up feeling pretty good about the test itself. I think I may actually get a usable score out of this, after all! But I probably need rehab.

Proof: LR RC LR LR. they said octopuses instead of octopi. This is a real post, I can post the remaining shrooms (penis envy) and packaging when I get home.

TLDR: didn’t study for LSAT at all, took the test on shrooms today. It went much better than I was expecting and I actually feel okay about it.

Minor update: first, I just wanted to say thanks to the warm reception to this! It would have been easy to be critical as this was, objectively, a bad risk to take for my future. Thanks for being respectful in light of my poor decision-making.

Secondly, when I get my score, you folks will be the first to know!!!