Wenee Yap
The Fear of Making Mistakes
The other day I came home from work and cried. Firstly, I’d like to say that it is okay to cry. As a law student, I know that we like to fee
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Survive Law
Mar 30, 20123 min read
Money Matters: How to Fund things you Enjoy
"All the things I could do, if I had a little money..." Apologies for the ABBA lyrics, but most of us poor uni students are thinki
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Survive Law
Mar 29, 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
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Survive Law
Mar 28, 20123 min read
Killing them with Kindness in your Penultimate Year
Are you a student in your second last year? People seem to like throwing around the word ‘penultimate’ to describe this phase of our degree.
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Survive Law
Mar 25, 20121 min read
Working Hardly: Fitness, Law Student Style
It can be difficult to make time for exercise when you've got four assignments due in the next five days and can't remember the last
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Survive Law
Mar 22, 20125 min read
Law Student and Jurist Bill 2012
After much debate it the fictional house of law school reps (see Facebook) some amendments have been made to the Law Student and Jurist Bill
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Survive Law
Mar 22, 20123 min read
Become a Diligent-Looking Law Student in 5 Simple Steps
Every so often there’s an article that boasts to give the best tips on how to become a successful law student. This one is a little differen
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Wenee Yap
Mar 16, 20123 min read
Living in Fear of the Socratic Method
Oh, Socrates. So clever, so Greek, so dead....
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Wenee Yap
Mar 10, 20124 min read
So, what kind of law student are you?
So, you’ve found yourself at the start of your legal “experience”. Are you here to put the United Nations or Justice Kirby to shame? Did you
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Survive Law
Mar 8, 20123 min read
Balancing parenting with law school: 5 tips for new students
So, you are a parent and have decided to embark upon a law degree. Congratulations on your courage and chutzpah at having the audacity to te
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Survive Law
Mar 7, 20122 min read
Pace yourselves, keen beans!
It’s just so exciting, isn’t it? You’re a real law student! You’ve been waking up at 5am for 11am classes, dressing in your nicest rags, and
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Survive Law
Mar 5, 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
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Survive Law
Jan 17, 20122 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
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Survive Law
Jan 9, 20122 min read
The Indecisive Law Graduate’s First Year out of Law School
It’s just over a year since I finished my law degree. At the time I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, but one thing was certa
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Survive Law
Dec 21, 20111 min read
How to lose a law student in 10 days…
Law students are among the country’s most finicky and meticulous students. We know what we like and, more to the point, we know what we don’
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Survive Law
Dec 15, 20112 min read
Law Student Rites of Passage
There are certain moments in life that you will never forget; some are wonderful, others not so much. There are plenty of the ‘firsts’ that
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Survive Law
Dec 1, 20112 min read
Happy to Grumpy Law Student in 2.4 Seconds
It would be wrong to say law students are always an easy going group of people, but there are a few things that are guaranteed to tip even t
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Survive Law
Nov 7, 20112 min read
Confessions of a Bad Law Student
If every conversation I heard in the law library about how much study everyone does is true, then I am in serious trouble. If I read more th
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Survive Law
Oct 29, 20112 min read
Unique Law Student Abilities
So we may not be able to design bridges or perform complicated lab experiments, but there are plenty of incredible ‘super powers’ that are u
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Survive Law
Oct 4, 20113 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
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