Putting the cool back into law school
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The evolutionary lifespan of any new communication or publishing product follows a typical pattern. First, the product is introduced to fanfare or lack thereof. Second, early adopters adopt the product and begin evangelizing it as a revolution. Third, the mainstream takes notice of the new product, but complains loudly about how they don’t get it. [...]
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The summer before law school is probably the reason this blog is named what it is. Fearfully optimistic is the feeling that I felt before I started law school. Not cautiously optimistic, which is the feeling that success is near but not certain, but the feeling that either glorious success or fantastic failure is in [...]
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So now that you’re done with exams, what should you do? Hopefully, you don’t have to dive right into a write-on note project or start a job for the summer so soon after finals. If you do, then more power to you, you’re a harder worker than me (I’ve still have the creeps that I [...]
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Do you fiddle with a test? Do you curse mistakes you made afterwards? It’s a common problem for law students. Many do not have the proper balance between trusting their instincts and tweaking their answer when in an exam. And given the open-ended nature of an exam, and the virtual black box that is law [...]
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Chere over at Teasingly Diverse offered up a great idea for law students to reduce stress and gain a bit of perspectives: take a sabbath. Maybe it’s Sunday, maybe it’s Saturday, maybe it’s a weekeday. Maybe you actually do nothing, and maybe you work hard at something. The bigger idea is to take a day [...]
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Today’s 31 Days to Building a Better Blog challenge task is to [write a list post](http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009/04/07/write-a-list-post/). The reasoning? List posts are the type of posts that tend to go viral, get tweeted, get posted to Facebook, etc. They’re also easy to read, can help organize ideas, and can build community interaction. So with that throat-clearing [...]
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By now, pretty much every 1L in America is done with one-sixth of their law school career. Congratulations. You took on a great challenge and got through it. If you reading this and you didn’t make it through your first semester, I hope you take the time to sit down and ask yourself why you [...]
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