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Perfectionism and the Law Student
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dalí Are you in the habit of setting yourself unattainable goals? You probab

Survive Law
Mar 3, 20133 min read


Answers to Common First Year Questions
Where is the lecture hall? Am I supposed to call my lecturers by their first name? Why does every tutorial sound like it’s in a completely d

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Mar 2, 20134 min read


Staying Motivated Throughout your Law Degree
Five years ago when I began my degree I was excited and super keen to get started reading all those fabulous books and cases. I had celebrat

Survive Law
Mar 1, 20133 min read


Ten Tips for Surviving Law School
Law school can be an overwhelming jumble of convoluted readings, hard-to-find ratios, computer crashes and late nights, but there are heaps

Survive Law
Feb 27, 20133 min read


Repeating a Subject
I had to repeat a first year subject in my second year. On the first day of uni I arrived at my seminar just in time, with most of the 40 st

Survive Law
Feb 26, 20133 min read


Back to Law School Checklist
How did this happen? It seems like only yesterday that we were looking forward to the long (too short), hot (rainy), relaxing (work-filled)

Survive Law
Feb 24, 20132 min read


Why Law School Friends are Awesome
So, you think you can get through law school on your own without needing to make friends? Just go to class, sit there, takes notes and liste

Survive Law
Feb 19, 20133 min read


Why I Love the Back to Uni Routine
I admit it. I secretly really enjoy this time of year. Yes, summer break is ending and we’re heading back to class, but I’ve been bored sinc

Survive Law
Feb 13, 20132 min read


Why Law School is Just Like High School
In a scary way, law school shares many similarities with high school. I'm sure you can probably relate to many of these comparisons…

Survive Law
Feb 3, 20133 min read


House of Horrors: Finding Good Housemates
Moving out of the nest and learning to live with housemates can be an exciting time. While having a stable living arrangement will help your

Survive Law
Jan 24, 20133 min read


Feeling Like a Law School Dinosaur
With my final semester as a law student approaching, I find myself pensively reflecting on the past half decade I have spent in law school.

Survive Law
Jan 21, 20133 min read


Take Your Time: The Benefits of going Slow with your Law Degree
We law students are an overachieving competitive bunch. It comes with the territory. We’re all pretty bright and have had to fight our way i

Survive Law
Jan 16, 20133 min read


I can't turn my law brain off!
From arguing your way out of trouble with double negatives, to using your old Contracts textbook as some light bedtime reading, sometimes th

Survive Law
Jan 4, 20132 min read


Life After Law School
Ask a first year student where they expect to be one year after law school and the answer might be “interning at the United Nations” or “wor

Survive Law
Jan 3, 20131 min read


Adventures of the Unluckiest Law Student
2012 ended quite fittingly for the unluckiest law student. In fact, the event that caused me several facial bruises and grazed hands is also

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Jan 3, 20133 min read


What I Learnt at Law School this Year
While the majority of law students will spend the next few weeks determinedly draining accumulated facts, statutes and legal arguments from

Survive Law
Dec 19, 20122 min read


Adapting to Life as a Law Student
It seems like it was only yesterday when I was walking into my very first lecture, with nothing but the soundtrack to Jaws playing in my hea

Survive Law
Dec 11, 20122 min read


Tales of a Truant: A Semester Without Classes
I am surely not alone in my inability to attend the first week of classes. I prefer to avoid the dryness of introductory speeches and admini

Survive Law
Dec 7, 20123 min read


Getting into Summer Holiday Mode
For some people, summer holidays start the minute the exam supervisor says ‘pens down’ for the final time. For others, it’s not so easy. Hav

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Dec 2, 20122 min read


Ten Lessons Learnt During a Busy Semester
Some semesters are tougher than others, and the semesters where you take on extra shifts at work, join a few intense extra-curricular activi

Survive Law
Nov 29, 20123 min read
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