Tag Archives: pre-1L

free advice for future 1Ls, part 4

Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by Jill in law school

(if you’re new to the series, see part 1, part 2, and part 3) Before I started law school, I got a lot of advice. I’m sure you have, too, by this stage, if you’re starting law school in the fall. Of all the advice I received, two things still stick out in my mind [...]

ahem. FREE advice for future 1Ls, part 3 (now with a complimentary rant!)

Posted on 22. Jun, 2010 by Jill in law school, ranting and raving

(part 1 located here and part 2 located here, both also FREE) So the other day I started writing this post, the third in my series, and then this thing happened, and then I had to rename part 3 into part 4 because now part 3 has to be about this thing that happened. Here’s [...]

fear and emotional chaos in anticipation of law school

Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by Jill in law school

Two weeks from tomorrow, I’ll be attending my first day of law school orientation. Egads! I’ve spent this entire year wishing law school would hurry up and get here, and now that it’s almost here, a low-grade, smoldering panic is starting to creep in. And while I know in my head that everything’s going to [...]

the schedule from the pits of hell

Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Jill in law school

A couple of months ago, I wrote a law-school-update post in which I typed these words: …I’m convinced that my schedule will be the one with an 8:00 class five days a week. Well, I am receipt of something that resembles a schedule. It used to look a little more like a schedule until the [...]

law school confidential: my thoughts

Posted on 14. Jul, 2009 by Jill in law school

I finally finished Law School Confidential. Well, sorta. I skipped over a few chapters — nay, over entire sections — of the book. The thing is, probably about two-thirds of it just doesn’t apply to me at this point. The parts that I did read, however, were good as far as gaining a basic understanding [...]

law school: the debt factor

Posted on 02. Apr, 2009 by Jill in law school

Most people who go to law school graduate with substantial debt. In general, the higher ranked the law school, the more debt you can expect to accumulate (in part, because so many of them are private schools). However, in the past this debt load has been mitigated by one’s earning potential as a graduate from [...]

scholarship day

Posted on 03. Mar, 2009 by Jill in law school

Whew! Sorry for the long delay in posting. Busy, busy times. NSOL had its scholarship day last Friday for potential students who have been awarded “significant” scholarships, whatever that means. It was an all-day affair and it was actually a lot of fun. Usually I dread these kinds of things, where you have to go [...]