How to Kick Ass in Law School
Getting started – Why this book?
Law school is not an easy place. After struggling for a year or two, and overcoming numerous hurdles when you land up in the world of your dreams, you realise that the battle has just began. Coming from a school and the comfortable environment of a home (unless you went to a boarding school) – one feels like stepping into a hot cauldron of expectations, academic pressure, opportunities of every kind and a feeling of hanging from a cliff.
A law school puts a lot of intelligent, hard working, very ambitious and competitive kids together within a small campus, and then puts them through an academic grind. The institution will also give you lots of exposure to things that everyone wants to achieve, and you will be competing some more. One of the most difficult things will be managing the people, you so called friends. Due to the residential nature of most law schools, living in a law school is like living in a medieval village – there is a lot of interaction with other people living on the campus, and everyone knows intimate details of your life, whether you like that or not. Very often, the most successful people in law school are also the most disliked.
You would want different things at different points in law school. Most of us have gone through those phases and we have achieved some of those and lost out on others. I started writing about my findings and experiments on A First Taste of Law in 2007 – my second year in law school. Others joined in over time and started writing great posts on life in law school. Srishti started writing for A First Taste of Law and then started her own blog LawSchoolsTerrace later.
In some places, Author’s name is not disclosed as per the wish of the author © Copyright reserved by individual authors. Visit LawSchoolsTerrace&A First Taste of Law to read more such posts.
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This summer Srishti came up with the great idea of compiling the best posts so that law students can find all
Law school is not an easy place. After struggling for a year or two, and overcoming numerous hurdles when you land up in the world of your dreams, you realise that the battle has just began. Coming from a school and the comfortable environment of a home (unless you went to a boarding school) – one feels like stepping into a hot cauldron of expectations, academic pressure, opportunities of every kind and a feeling of hanging from a cliff.
A law school puts a lot of intelligent, hard working, very ambitious and competitive kids together within a small campus, and then puts them through an academic grind. The institution will also give you lots of exposure to things that everyone wants to achieve, and you will be competing some more. One of the most difficult things will be managing the people, you so called friends. Due to the residential nature of most law schools, living in a law school is like living in a medieval village – there is a lot of interaction with other people living on the campus, and everyone knows intimate details of your life, whether you like that or not. Very often, the most successful people in law school are also the most disliked.
You would want different things at different points in law school. Most of us have gone through those phases and we have achieved some of those and lost out on others. I started writing about my findings and experiments on A First Taste of Law in 2007 – my second year in law school. Others joined in over time and started writing great posts on life in law school. Srishti started writing for A First Taste of Law and then started her own blog LawSchoolsTerrace later.
In some places, Author’s name is not disclosed as per the wish of the author © Copyright reserved by individual authors. Visit LawSchoolsTerrace&A First Taste of Law to read more such posts.
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This summer Srishti came up with the great idea of compiling the best posts so that law students can find all