April: 01st - April Fool's Day 01st - Syahrul's Birthday 02nd - Avril Lavigne Bonez Tour 03rd - Mum's Blood Test @ KK 05th - Doctor Appointment @ TTSH 07th - Justin ORD 10th - Mum's Surgery @ KK Hospital 12th - Aaron's Brthday 13th - Doctor Appointment @ TTSH 13th - Opening Of (Eight Below) 12th - Opening Of Movie (Firewall) 14th - Good Friday Holiday 17th - Gary's Birthday
20th - Boss's Birthday
20th - Boss's Birthday Celebration
23rd - Emil & Jonathon Concert 05
26th - Andy Lim's Birthday
May:
01st - Progress Reward Banked In
01st - Labour Day Holiday
01st - Jennifer's Birthday
05th - Opening Of Movie (MI:3)
09th - Winnie's Birthday
12th - Vesak Day Holiday
18th - Opening Of (Da Vinci Code)
25th - Opening Of Movie (X-Men 3)
:: Wish Upon A Star ::
01) A Girlfriend? Let Fate Decide It
02) More Incoming Funds (Money)
03) Apple iPod Video 30 GB ($548)
04) Complete My National Service
05) A Handphone (Nokia N91)
06) A New Wallet
07) New Adidas Watch
08) Apple iMac G5
09) Looking For Pen Pals
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Tuesday, August 17, 2004
ADVICE TO LAW STUDENTS: Since it's that time of year and everyone and their brother is dispensing sagacity to those would-be esquires, I figured I'd add my few thoughts to the collective wisdom of the Blogosphere.
The Top Ten Things I Learned About Law School
1. Your fellow students are not the enemy. Even if you are graded on a tight curve, where only ten percent of the class is allowed the highest mark, your fellow students are either a resource or discountable. There is no reason to view them as the enemy, no reason to get upset at them or view them as obstacles. They can't hurt your chances of success, they can only help you.
2. Your study partner is the most important person in law school. Choose Wisely. What, you aren't getting a study partner? You're mad. Particularly for first year exams, you absolutely positively must work with one or two other people. And they need to be engaging, thoughtful, interesting people with opinions on things. A study group that never argues is a study group that doesn't get anywhere. You're in school to learn how to argue... Might as well practice.
3. Find something else to do. It's a necessity that you have regularly scheduled activities outside of law school. Particularly for the first year, while you will be spending nights in the library studying -- or should be anyway -- you must have a release. Find something physical to do. I picked fencing, running and biking. Others pick hiking and swimming. But you must find something to do besides study and you must attend to it regularly.
4. There's no substitute for work. Again, this applies primarily to your first year, but there really is no substitute for sitting your ass down in the chair and spending five hours studying. If you don't have the discipline to do the work, you don't deserve the grade.
5. Help your classmates. This is the corollary to #1... And it's actually more important. Whenever you have the opportunity to help your classmates, whether it's holding their jacket while they madly change for an interview or explaining a case to them or even showing them how to take notes if they don't know... There is no better thing you can do than help your classmates. If it's an academic issue, you'll learn it better by teaching. If it's non-academic, you'll make the law school experience better for everyone, and in any case you'll generate good will for later on in your career. It sounds silly, but the people you know in law school are going to be your closest professional allies. Law is an incestuous business, everyone seems to know everyone else. Don't be an ass.
6. Go to court. Yep -- go to court and watch law and motion practice. Take some time out and just watch things happen.
7. Pay attention to Civil Procedure. It's the most important class you'll take. Master that class -- even if you're going to eventually be a criminal lawyer, the tools of Civil Procedure are the most important tools to law practice. There is simply no substitute to knowing the pleading process inside and out. Read your federal rules, and if your instructor doesn't cover them, look up their state counterparts.
8. Learn the books. Westlaw is great, and I use it a lot. But you need to understand the structure of how law is recorded to make sense of Westlaw. Spend time with the books in the library, learning how to use them and how cases are recorded. Spend time learning how to cite to different authorities; by reading The Blue Book, you'll not only learn citation form, but you'll become more familiar with all the different things that can be cited.
9. Take hard classes. Mickey Mouse electives are all fine and dandy, but they are a waste of your hard-earned money. And if it isn't hard earned, if it's loans, rest assured that it will be hard-earned at some point. Take Federal Courts, Advanced Civil Procedure, and other serious courses. It's OK to have a little intellectual filler, but take the courses seriously. You're only in law school once, and you might as well suck out all the marrow. Transgender Communities and the Law is all well and good, but it's not going to make you a better lawyer.
10. Keep Perspective. When I was a first year, there was a very sweet woman who couldn't handle the "stress." In the first week, she broke down crying in the library and then we never saw her again. Here's a secret: There was no stress. It was all in her mind. There was only reading, and cases, and the path to understanding. Another woman named Carola quit after a semester -- but she quit after getting quite good grades and not stressing during the year. She decided that she wanted to be a sculptor. She had perspective. It's just law school. It's not the end all be all of your existence, and it doesn't validate you as a human being. Remember #5, supra, and remember what's really important in life.
So there you have it, the top ten things I learned about kicking ass and taking names in law school. You don't need to be the top of your class -- you need to do the best you can, to be balanced and happy, and to be fair and just to your fellow students. You need to respect your professors, and learn the law.
It's easy for me to say it... it's going to be harder for you to do it. But not as hard as it sounds.
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