LawSchool.Life

It's all about how you budget your time. If you would have asked me this question in September I would have probably said no, but as my first semester went on I learned how to allocate my time more efficiently.

I played club hockey all three years in law school, which involved traveling to Evanston from downtown Chicago twice a week. Your schedule gets more full towards exams but during the regular part of term you have a fair amount of flexible time. Especially if you're willing to give up some of the so...

The whole job application process is much more stressful than I had anticipated.


So many cover letters to write, so little time!

Haven't applied for a single job yet and Im starting to feel like a piece of shit about it.

My contracts prof never taught us 2-207 (they expects us not to use it even when relevant) and cares extremely little about almost all BLL/case law. I heard classes were idiosyncratic, but damn I basically took a different course instead of contracts This sounds a lot like my torts class because we...

Last final tomorrow. All motivation is gone. My brain hurts.

Thank you for the link! I am working full-time but I am studying 1 to 2 hours Monday through Friday and at least 4 hours on Fri, Sat and Sun. I want to take the January 2019 LSATs in order to apply before Georgetown's application deadline. I had a pretty similar study schedule and took 8 months to ...

How do you guys keep time on the exam? Can you not see the clock on your laptop while taking the exam? The software we use lets you see the clock, so I just use that then divide my time based on the point values for each question. Also, the software we use lets you set timers but aint nobody got ti...

Has anyone taken their contracts final yet? If so I have a few questions about how exactly you tackled it. Feel free to drop me a PM. Thanks!

Mikey wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 25, 2018 9:53 am

instead of focusing on finals i'm just here trying to wonder if i should spent my lexis points or save them and become rich AF

A 3L I know and her fiance are using their points to essentially fund their honeymoon this upcoming summer. Save those points!!

Going back through old notes for outlining purposes and under one of my briefs, with absolutely no context, I wrote "It is rare to see a plaintiff sue a defendant."

Law school has literally turned my brain to mush lol

The LSAT/application process is seriously depressing. I had a really hard time getting through it so I know how you feel. The waiting part is full of nervous anticipation. The acceptance/deciding where to go part was, for me, one of the most exciting and uplifting times of my life. Law school itself...

Both our memos this semester are graded but the first/closed one is worth less and the components/assignments we turn in for feedback as we’re working on them are ungraded which is nice because my prof ripped me apart on all of them This sounds pretty similar to what I have as well. My first one wa...

Submitted my first memo last week and I've just started working on #2. Why must they take up so much time???

Also, my first memo was not for an actual grade which I thought was kinda strange. Is that pretty common or is everyone being graded on everything they turn in?

For those of you that do not brief cases, what do you do to prepare for class? Everything is starting to heat up and in the near future Im sure that I will not have time to start exam prep and continue class prep how I have been. Also, Ive been thinking about gettin a Quimbee account. Anyone have an...

As someone that is a huge fan of 7Sage, I agree with what has been said above. RC is the hardest section to improve on and 7Sage does not offer a magic solution. If you're looking for LG and LR improvement then I would definitely recommend 7Sage.

Mikey wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 24, 2018 6:32 pm

DO YOU EVEN CREAC, BRO

Just finished my first full memo and my first draft CREAC vs the CREAC ill be turning in tomorrow are sooo different. Learning is fun?! idk

Our first draft of the closed memo is due a week from today. Just finished my outline. BTW I've already stopped briefing cases. Now I just read them, find the rule and reference the westlaw headnotes before class. I was sinking so much time into briefing and I would go into class and find that my p...

Got ripped apart on my first LRW assignment so yeah that really humbled me lol

I just don't see the point? In my experience so far, everyone is very much prepared for class as it is so why add the pressure of a grade?

Soooo Westlaw or LexisNexis? I prefer Westlaw but those points are a really tempting reason to use Lexis tbh just search for something random everyday and you'll get points that will add up! The little "quizzes" they send via email rack up the points quickly and are actually pretty helpful. Im up t...

Soooo Westlaw or LexisNexis? I prefer Westlaw but those points are a really tempting reason to use Lexis tbh just search for something random everyday and you'll get points that will add up! The little "quizzes" they send via email rack up the points quickly and are actually pretty helpful. Im up t...

Soooo Westlaw or LexisNexis?

For those that don't brief, what do you do? Theres no way I could just remember the details of every case well enough to make it though a cold call so Im assuming you guys just take basic notes? Im not a huge fan of briefing so I would like to hear what others do.

This is a great podcast for anyone that is still looking for some more info about making it through 1L year.

https://simplecast.com/s/aeeadd34