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Dealing with Stress According to Marge Simpson
Learning how to deal with stress is tricky - everyone has different coping mechanisms and different methods that they’ve come to develop aft

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Oct 30, 20182 min read
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Quick De-stressing Activities
In Survive Law’s 2015 Australian Law Students’ Survey, 55% of law students said they felt stressed about law school most or all of the time.

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Aug 30, 20172 min read
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5 Sports Law Students Should Ace
It’s that time of year again. Time to pin-up your wall planner and brace your biros as we roll out of another summer and hit the books. Whil

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Feb 9, 20172 min read
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Advice for Law Students: Parents’ Edition
We usually turn to lecturers, our law school buddies and law grads for advice when it comes to battling your way through law school. But wha

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Jan 16, 20173 min read
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Getting over the Law School Slump
The Law School Slump. We all experience it at some point during law school. Most often, it’s because we’ve been working hard non-stop since

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Jan 9, 20173 min read
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How I Bounced Back From Failing a Unit
Receiving results after a hard and stressful exam period may validate the work you’ve done throughout semester. For others, it may be a mixt

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Dec 18, 20162 min read
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Review: Workplace Bullying
Survive Law's Jess Awad dishes the dirt on LexisNexis' take on Workplace Bullying. For those of you interested in gaining a broader

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Oct 4, 20162 min read
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Competitiveness: a race to the end
Sometimes I feel like an energizer bunny – it’s a race to the end! With exams and clerkships coming up, the pressure is getting real. I get

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May 26, 20162 min read
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Profile: Robyn Bradey on Law and Mental Health
Survive Law first encountered social worker and mental health expert, Robyn Bradey, at College of Law's Wellness Forum. We caught up wit

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Apr 5, 20162 min read
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Returning to law after 2 and half year hiatus
I’m back. After a two and a half years, I’m calling myself a Law Student once more. I’ve returned to the land of ‘but fors’ and double negat

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Apr 5, 20162 min read
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Law degree: You v Negativity
I’m sure by now you’ve heard the news that Law is the new Arts. Law, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!

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Jan 20, 20162 min read
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How to keep things in perspective
During law school, it is very easy to feel overwhelmed when trying to learn about complex areas of law, perfecting clerkship applications, p

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Dec 21, 20152 min read
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5 signs you're headed for burnout
It’s that time of the semester where things are starting to get a bit too much. Exams are only a few weeks away and you’ve still got a whole

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Oct 29, 20153 min read
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Controlling mental monsters
‘It’s too difficult’. ‘I’m not smart enough’. ‘Everybody hates me’. Do any of these thoughts sound familiar? Psychologists call these types

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Oct 26, 20152 min read
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The 8 Times Law School Sucked – And How to Survive
You deserve a medal for getting through law school. Now before everyone rolls their eyes, take a minute to admit that law school can be down

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Oct 21, 20154 min read
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The lowdown on downtime
As law students we receive a wealth of advice when it comes to study skills, revision techniques and exam prep. We emerge from our degree wi

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Oct 12, 20153 min read
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The Wellness Doctrines
As law students, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves. Pressure to do well, pressure to work hard and pressure to look good doing it. And n

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Oct 2, 20152 min read
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Coping with mid-sem mayhem
Mid-semester break, a magical week of no classes. A time when you can catch up on missed lectures, sleep in, and finish off the...

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Sep 29, 20153 min read
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Five tips for staying motivated during your degree
In my first year, I was enthusiastic – almost ecstatic – about starting my five-year double degree. Keen and eager, I sped through readings,

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Aug 21, 20152 min read
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Tips for a better semester
The time has come to hit our 1,429 page constitutional law textbooks or whatever weighty volume you’ve been blessed with this semester. You’

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Aug 20, 20152 min read
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