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got my first A in law school, didn't expect it at all but a win is a win.

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got two summer job interviews from my top non-firm choices, i am happy and grateful no matter what happens.

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Tamino interview for 3FM

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"why are you interested in working here?"

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Hard to resist the pull of a little glass almond croissant 🌲🥐✨

#coffee

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Random Study Tips

Don't study for too long if you are not enjoying it.

Take short breaks after 20-30 minutes.

Don't study in the living room, bedroom, etc.

Study in a separate place dedicated to studying.

Don't try to memorize without understanding. Try to understand the concept first.

Don't always study alone. Studying in groups helps a lot.

Don't highlight text blindly. Highlighting doesn't help that much. It only indicates Recognization not Recollection of the topic.

Always take notes. Reviewing the notes after a short time helps a lot.

Always try to teach others what you have learned.

Teaching is the best way of learning. Teach your parents, siblings, friends or even a rubber duck (programmers will know the rubber duck method).

Sleep is so much important for pushing something into your long-term memory. Get at least 7-8 hours of sound sleep.

Try to use the SQ3R (survey, question, recite, read, review) method while studying.

Use Mnemonics. It's the best way to memorize facts.

#studying

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Hugh Grant as Clive Durham in Maurice (1987)

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#dark academia #poetry

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You are the master of your thoughts; your thoughts are not the master of you. Master your thoughts and you master your life.

#studyblr #lawblr #law student #law school

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#music

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I'm over people saying they'd be good lawyers because they like to argue.

First of all, lawyer arguing isn't "normal" arguing. It's not being stubborn, loud, or aggressive. Lawyer arguing is finding the rule and applying the facts to the rule and using precedent.

Second, arguing isn't always what it's about. Compromise, when possible, is so much better! I had a trial yesterday and I won, but after, my client worked with the other side to potentially resolve the issue.

Third, attention to detail is a much better lawyer trait than liking to argue. Other better traits are good public speaking skills, organization, ability to track progression of multiple tasks at once, cooperation, clear speaking, wit and quick thinking, hard working, team work, good leadership, and humility.

Being a lawyer is more than arguing.

#lawblr #law school #1l

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Things my law school profs have said out of context: winter semester edition

- We can’t have everything someone says be contractually binding. What would the politicians do?

- Class is cancelled Tuesday. I will be in a four hour Zoom meeting with people I don’t really want to talk to

- One sexual act to rule them all

- Key message: be depressed rather than hopeful

- Oh morally he’s a bastard

- The question is not whether you could get sued. It’s whether you could be sued successfully

- It’s not a crime to want somebody dead

- So we’re sitting around discussing exculpatory clauses, as people do

- I added the underline there just to make it *~fancy~*

- March is the month when everyone in [insert locale here] convinces themselves “It’ll be nice when it gets to March”, and then March comes and beats us down like rats

- Where am I going with that? Sorry, thought evaporated. Cancel that.

- We’ll see it’s actually not quite difficult. I don’t know what my problem was

- And here is where…I despair. I don’t despair often, but every time I look at this, I have no clue what’s going on here

- I might actually be sad when it’s gone because I love complaining about it

- Maybe Parliament is pretty nice anyway. But, it turns out they’re not.

#law school #university #law student #1L

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april 10th, 2023 || endless study days

#law student #studying #academia

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waiting for 1L fall grades is pain. applying to jobs not knowing what my grades are is such a weird feeling. like all of this work could be for nothing if i'm not at least above median.

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