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An Erika story. Two disclaimers here first. I know nothing about this topic, other than what she told me. Second, it's a little braggy, the opposite of who Erika was. But I was always so proud of her, that I liked telling people of her accomplishments that she often downplayed.
Erika was deciding whether to go to law school, so she was studying for the LSAT. The range of scores on an LSAT is 120 to 180. To be considered for the law schools that she was interested in, she needed a minimum of 150 on the LSAT.
There are three main parts of the LSAT, reading comprehension, logical reasoning and a section referred to as "logic games". There's also a writing sample. She was most concerned with the logic games section, and worked hard to get better at them.
Early on in her studying, she decided to take a practice exam, which lasts 3 1/2 hours, and then score it, as a baseline for her studying. Her score on this practice exam was a 149. This was at a time when out of sections with 8 logic game questions, she was getting 2-3 correct.
She kept studying for weeks. She never took another practice exam, but she did take some timed practice session on the logic games as answering these under timed pressure is a part of the exam itself.
The last time she took one of these timed logic games practices, she was getting 6-7 answers out of 8 correct. This improvement alone told me she was going to blow past that 150 score. No matter how excited I got about this for her, she stayed humble in it all.
Some people have said to me how they were always so impressed with how Erika would have an idea for something she wanted to do, and then she'd just go do it. She wanted to try welding, so she took a class at The Steel Yard and ended up building "Freak Bike"
She wanted to learn about frogs and help identify them for a study. So she took a class and got certified in frog identification. Yeah, that apparently is a real thing. There is a CD in our basement of frog sounds that she learned.
She re-learned how to skate and played in hockey leagues, starting as a defenseman and then moving up to forward and scoring goals in the "Adult" leagues where she was often the only woman on the ice. She took local classes to become an amateur beekeeper, raising Mason bees:
Instead of telling other peoples' stories, she wanted to effect change in the world, so she went back to school, got her Masters degree and changed careers. In short, there were no limits to Erika. She did amazing things, and could do anything she set her mind to. 
