Survive Law
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
Survive Law
- Aug 30, 2017
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Feb 9, 2017
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Jan 16, 2017
- 3 min
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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Survive Law
- Jan 9, 2017
- 3 min
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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Survive Law
- Dec 18, 2016
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Oct 4, 2016
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- May 26, 2016
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Apr 5, 2016
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Apr 5, 2016
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Jan 20, 2016
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Dec 21, 2015
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Oct 29, 2015
- 3 min
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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Survive Law
- Oct 26, 2015
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Oct 21, 2015
- 4 min
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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Survive Law
- Oct 12, 2015
- 3 min
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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Survive Law
- Oct 2, 2015
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Sep 29, 2015
- 3 min
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 assignments that are due when classes resume. It seems so far away. There’s plenty of time to plan and get on top of things. No need to start planning just yet, I can do all that next week… right? Well I hate to break it to you, but mid-semester break is here. Now! Suddenly, you’ve got all your lectures and assignments to catch up on. A feeling of he
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Survive Law
- Aug 21, 2015
- 2 min
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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Survive Law
- Aug 20, 2015
- 2 min
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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