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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
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Survive Law
Aug 12, 20122 min read
Why do I Procrastinate?
Procrastination – we’re all guilty of it. Don’t deny it. Maybe you’re shaking your head in response to this, and saying “but I’m organised!”
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Survive Law
Jul 31, 20122 min read
Confessions of an Academic Self-Saboteur
Many years ago, an insecure wreck of a first year law student dared to dream of the day when only one semester would stand between her and g
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Survive Law
Jun 25, 20124 min read
How to stay motivated for a supplementary exam
Sometimes the universe just hates you and conspires to make your life as difficult as possible. I spent weeks preparing for my exams at the
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Survive Law
May 25, 20122 min read
Pre-Exam Procrastination
Finals are coming up so procrastination is inevitable. There’s the usual procrastination on Facebook, and reading completely irrelevant worl
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Survive Law
May 12, 20123 min read
Losing Faith in Law
As I near exam period each semester I begin to not only fret and drink a lot of iced tea, but I simultaneously decide that I’m going to eith
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Survive Law
Apr 15, 20122 min read
Funny and Inspirational Quotations for Mid-Sem Madness
Sometimes being a law student gets downright hard, horrible and exhausting. There's those days when you come home absolutely defeated; y
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Survive Law
Apr 12, 20122 min read
I just can't read any more
It seems like no matter how hard I try to live a ‘balanced’ lifestyle, I almost never succeed and often find myself on two extremes of the s
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Survive Law
Apr 3, 20123 min read
The Mid-Semester Slump
The frenetic work ethic borne from having four assignments due in the same week hasn’t kicked in yet. You know it can’t last; you know that
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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 14, 20125 min read
How to Stay on Point
So you're back to the law student grind, forced into another year of textbook serfdom. Or maybe you have just begun your illustrious stu
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Survive Law
Mar 9, 20122 min read
Oh no! Not another year of law! Tips for early semester motivation
Even for the most motivated of law students the first few weeks of study feel almost impossible. Who can blame us? We’ve spent months testin
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Survive Law
Mar 21, 20112 min read
What happened to law student idealism?
Do you remember the first-ever tutorial of your law degree? That tutorial where everyone in the class said their name, something “interestin
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Survive Law
Aug 13, 20102 min read
Am I cut out for law school?
If you’re thinking about applying to do law, you’re probably also wondering if it’s right for you. Prospective law students often feel they’
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