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Ten Ways to Improve your Class Presentations
Remember when it was totally uncool to know how to do stuff on a computer? These days, you’ll be left behind if you don't know how to sh

Survive Law
Aug 30, 20123 min read


My First Law School Competition
Once upon a time I believed that watching me compete in a law school competition would be about as hilarious as seeing my dog in a knitted c

Survive Law
Aug 24, 20122 min read


Staying Motivated in your Final Semester of Law
If the phrase “light at the end of the tunnel” is being thrown around a lot at the moment, you must be in your final semester of your law de

Survive Law
Aug 14, 20122 min read


Surviving Four (or More) Law Subjects in a Semester
Last semester I took on four law subjects. And while I survived (I use that word lightly) it was by far the worst experience of my life. By

Survive Law
Aug 7, 20122 min read


Technology in Law Schools
When I first started university back in the early 2000s, bringing your laptop to university was a somewhat rare thing. PowerPoint was someth

Survive Law
Jul 20, 20122 min read


I'm Sorry...
To my housemates, friends and family, I would like to take this opportunity to say I’m sorry. I’m sorry that you have to put with me during

Survive Law
Jul 8, 20122 min read


Studying Law in Regional Australia
Hi there! A moment please, while I put down my Akubra and corn husk. There, that’s better. What were we going to talk about? Oh, that’s righ

Survive Law
Jun 9, 20122 min read


Learning the Hard Way: The Trials of Law School
It’s no secret that law school is kind of tricky. You think one thing and later find out that the exact opposite is actually the case. Maybe

Survive Law
May 2, 20122 min read


Law School Problems
The guy in the library complaining about how bad the wi-fi signal is. The girl behind him complaining about how she can’t get any work done

Survive Law
Apr 21, 20122 min read


College to Day Kid: Adapting to Life off Campus
Although I'm more than halfway through my degree, this year it feels like I have started all over again. Why, you ask? I've finally

Survive Law
Mar 30, 20122 min read


Law School Mean Girls
Every law school has them. But rather than the quintessential “mean girls” we met through “the plastics” in the 2004 hit film, he mean girls

Marie Hadley
Mar 24, 20123 min read


Law Student to English Dictionary
Starting law school can be hard at the best of times. It doesn't help that all of a sudden you're bombarded with all this legal jarg

Survive Law
Mar 19, 20124 min read


The Law School Check List
So you’re part way into your law degree, and all you’ve done is attend the occasional lecture and bluff your way through tutorials each week

Survive Law
Mar 11, 20122 min read


The Underachiever’s Guide to Faking it in Class
Some law students finish their readings every week, maintain their notes with meticulous care, and come to each seminar/tute/lecture/exam co

Survive Law
Mar 8, 20124 min read


Law school study avoidance traps
When it comes to being good students, we’re all guilty of telling ourselves that we’ll ‘get around to it’. For most of us, these traps are v

Survive Law
Mar 6, 20122 min read


Wow! Survive Law got shiny!
It’s like a celebrity makeover story. Over the summer we’ve secretly been nipping and tucking our way to a prettier, friendlier and altogeth

Survive Law
Mar 6, 20122 min read


Welcome to Law School, Class of 2012!
So it’s the first day of the new university year (for most of us, anyway). For some, you’ll be taking your first steps not only in law schoo

Wenee Yap
Feb 29, 20123 min read


Poem: Pre-First Day Jitters
Are you starting uni tomorrow? Feeling a tad petrified? Don’t be, we know you’re going to be fantastic.

Head Editor
Feb 26, 20121 min read


Getting Ready to Start Law School
Yay for you, you got into law school! All that hard work and study has paid off, now you get to go to university and work harder than you ev

Survive Law
Jan 18, 20122 min read


It’s the Final Countdown…
I was flipping through my diary and doing my usual panic-because-everything-is-due-in-a-few-weeks-then-it’s-exams, and then I realised that

Survive Law
Oct 5, 20113 min read
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