1L Success

NYULawyer
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:29:33 +0000

A large chunk of attaining success 1L year comes from recognizing that law school is not an extension of undergrad.

I was pretty surprised when I saw a good number of people at my law school doing “networking” at bars 3-4 times a week, goof around in one of those "study groups: where people do everything but study, play in one of hundreds of those student organizations, or spend too much time dealing with those ridiculous high-school level relationship break-up melodrama. All of that is nice, except you will dearly pay with your grades.

During my 1L year, I did nothing but study. I basically lived in a library. I studied 3-4 times harder during 1L year, compared to any point of my college career.

Also - doing practice exams once a month and going over my answers with a professor - in terms of how the professor would frame the answers to the potential hypothetical questions - were helpful.

A lot of people that screwed around 1L year seem to be completely screwed now, still without anything lined up as 2L’s.