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Beating Stress and Finding Balance: The Third Space
As a law student I often have trouble juggling my many commitments and switching between study time, family time and getting my brain in gea

Survive Law
Mar 7, 20132 min read


Why Yoga is Good for Law Students
Yoga, like the law, has been practiced for thousands of years. You’ve probably heard of it before and imagined super flexible types twisting

Survive Law
Feb 12, 20132 min read


Stress Less: Why you should be Relaxing Right Now
Stress is no stranger to a law student, but it’s not our best friend either. That’s why the university break is so important (and so awesome

Survive Law
Jan 25, 20132 min read


Dealing with Hand Pain in Exams
If you always seem to end up with a bad case of "exam hand", here are some solutions...

Survive Law
Nov 5, 20122 min read


A Friend in Need: Depression and the Quiet Cry for Help
As exam time looms closer, anxieties in the law school community are running high. It doesn’t help that one of the common law student charac

Survive Law
Nov 1, 20122 min read


The Art of the Power Nap
Regardless of whether you spent it studying or watching cat videos, the day after a late night is always a struggle. Most of the day is spen

Survive Law
Oct 25, 20122 min read


Law School Flu
Law school, believe it or not, is a cesspit of germs and disease. Okay, so the law library isn’t going to turn into a scene from the 1995 cl

Survive Law
Aug 29, 20122 min read


Caffeine Overload
I’m a law student, but I’m also “sensitive to caffeine”. Yes, you read that right. I’m a walking contradiction...

Survive Law
Jul 9, 20124 min read


Balancing Law with your Life
Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed a significant increase in frantic late night Facebook status updates regarding exam material and premat

Survive Law
Jun 28, 20124 min read


Why you get Sick After Exams
It seems like Murphy’s Law in action. The second you finish exams (and get your life back) you come down with the flu. In reality, post-exa

Survive Law
Jun 19, 20122 min read


Overwhelmed by Exams
The stresses of law school are most apparent in the lead up to exams. You feel run down, overwhelmed and pushed to breaking point, but you g

Survive Law
Jun 7, 20123 min read


Apps and Websites for Caffeine-Loving Law Students
Caffeine and law students go together like my green highlighter and my succession law notes – it’s an intense but sometimes unhealthy relati

Survive Law
May 10, 20122 min read


Working into the Ground
Law school often reminds me of the theory of natural selection - a survival of the fittest where the beneficial traits include an irrational

Survive Law
Apr 17, 20122 min read


Mental Health and Students: A Working Solution?
The Sydney University Law Society recently hosted a panel-based discussion forum on the topic of how mental health issues amongst students,

Survive Law
Apr 17, 20123 min read


What do you mean I CAN’T SURVIVE ON CAFFEINE?
It’s been, four weeks since I’ve exercised, Run around the block or even mobilized, Three weeks since I’ve used a spoon, Don’t need manners

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Apr 12, 20124 min read


How's the Serenity? Turn your weekend into a Power Break
As we approach the madness of mid-semester, most of us are wondering how to find work/life/study balance. Taking a few days off to relax wil

Survive Law
Apr 5, 20122 min read


Finding Study Life Balance
It took me a while to notice how depressed I actually was. When I burst into tears sitting at my computer for third time in a week, I looked

Survive Law
Apr 1, 20123 min read


Getting Free Legal Advice
Working in a community legal centre, I've been confronted by a huge range of issues that need urgent legal advice. Unfortunately, as we

Survive Law
Mar 29, 20123 min read


Crazy Things Law Students Do To Stay Awake
Most of us will pull at least one crazy law related all-nighter during our degrees. This is a feat requires an ingenious method of staying a

Survive Law
Mar 22, 20122 min read


Anxiety: A Law Student's Experience
It wasn't until my first year law school that I became aware of just how uncontrollable my anxiety was. I can count at least ten occasio

Survive Law
Mar 21, 20123 min read
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