what i did

I've had a few requests for tips and hints for getting through 1L year. I started a big long post about it a few times, but it never really came out well. I had a hard time separating what I consider a valuable tip and what nobody else other than me would find useful. The entry became too unwieldly. It's hard to give generalized advice that would be useful on something as personal as law school.

I've decided to take another approach. I am going to write a series of short entries that describe what I did in a certain area, such as notetaking, or outlining, etc.  I think I may just state what I did in list form. It won't be fancy.

Before I started law school, I soaked up advice from books, bloggers, current students, former students, our academic support program, and basically any person with a word of advice to say about law school. I didn't use most of it. That's why I am going to list out what I did. You can pick and choose what will help you.

I suggest reading Heidi Bond's series on what she did (most recent entry here). One, because it's well-written and has good insight into the entire process, but two, because if you read both of our 'what I did' descriptions, you can see how they vary. Some of what Heidi did wouldn't have worked for me, and vice versa. I point to Heidi because she, like me, had a blast her first year in law school, got what she wanted out of it, and was generally quite happy with the entire thing. We reached the same end, but sometimes through different means.

For the rest of who you aren't interested in this, all entries along these lines will have 'what i did:' in the title so you can ignore them.