5 TIPS FOR INCOMING LAW FRESHIES!
1. Manage your time. This tip is of course not a surprise to everyone. Time management is one of the most essential skills a law student must learn and develop throughout law school. The key here is always planning ahead. In terms of macro-managing, a good application is Google Calendar. This will include deadlines, dates of exams, quizzes, even ceasefires. On the other hand, in terms of micro-managing, nothing beats a good notebook to write down your to-do list for the day.
2. Master the fundamentals. One may classify the boring fundamentals as those we often overlook. 8 hours of sleep, a good eating habit, frequent exercise, etc. These habits are essential for our well-being and health. A law student cannot review his readings if he feels sick or lethargic. Treat your body as the game piece and law school as a game. You cannot play the game if your game piece is dysfunctional. Practice these fundamentals first, and all will follow.
3. Digests are only beneficial for the short term. A popular way of cramming in law school is reading your assigned cases in their pre-digested format, usually found in the internet. Although, it may save you lots of time in the reading category, there are compromises in using them. First, reading full text cases enhances your reading comprehension. Further, digests usually omit even the important parts of a certain cases such as exceptions and other doctrines. Practice reading in full text except when it is absolutely necessary that you need to resort to digested cases.
4. Make friends. Having a healthy social circle during your stay in law school is crucial. Do not think that you’re so good and your classmates are inferior compared to you. Ego will not help you in law school, in fact, it might even be your downfall. It is not only good for your studies as but also your mental health. Having someone to talk to when everything is crumbling down on your feet may mean passing law school or miserably failing.
5. At the end of the day, law school is not that intimidating. Many of us find the first few months, even years in law school, daunting. The piles of cases you have to read, hundred of pages assigned during a single meeting, consecutive exams during exam week; this is all hard to swallow. But at the end of the day, all of the hardships in law school is a mere part of a bigger journey. What is 75 cases in exchange of having the privileges to serve the public. What is a nerve-wracking recitation or the right to defend a wrongly charged accused. Think of the long term, always. Do not burn yourself out by doing all nighters and getting rid of your social life. You are still human, just like the rest of us; what sets you apart is that you are a future attorney.
All these tips may have their own posts in the future. We wish all the aspiring attorneys a good luck in their first day of law school. We hope that these tips will help you, even a little bit, in your law school journey.
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