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Do I Really Need to Buy My Textbooks?
Law is one of those courses that’s built upon textbooks...endless textbooks. In my five years of uni thus far, I’ve always purchased all my
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Survive Law
Dec 16, 20162 min read
Gift Ideas for Law Students
The holidays are a time of giving. Law students are a particular type of people. Curious, hard to read, picky, laden with strange habits and
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Survive Law
Mar 31, 20163 min read
What I wish I knew as a first year
From time to time, we all realise there are things we wish we'd known. Bianca has compiled a list of them to make these moments few and
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Survive Law
Feb 6, 20143 min read
Summer Intern Diary: Cameron Ritchie, Hewlett-Packard
My Hewlett-Packard internship is unlike any other I’ve experienced, or heard of, in many ways. This internship introduced me to a very speci
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Survive Law
Jul 18, 20132 min read
Textbooks on a Budget
Based on RRP, it costs 12.5 cents each time I turn a page in my constitutional law textbook. My corporations law textbook works out at $98 p
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Survive Law
Jun 10, 20131 min read
Reading between the Lines: Secondhand Textbook Ads Decoded
Like real estate agents advertising cupboard-sized bedrooms as “student friendly accommodation”, law students can show a certain creative fl
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Survive Law
Aug 21, 20124 min read
Interning with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Last year the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Strasbourg, France received its first Australian intern. That l
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Survive Law
Aug 14, 20122 min read
Poor at Law: Savings for Students
Law school can sometimes feel like you’re dining a posh restaurant where nothing on the menu suits your student budget. Luckily, there are s
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Survive Law
Jul 24, 20122 min read
Options for Buying and Selling Law Textbooks Online
The first week of semester is always expensive. Luckily, there are a number of websites where you can buy discount or secondhand law texts,
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Survive Law
May 24, 20122 min read
Assignment Advice from Your Marker
I recently finished my law degree and crossed over to the ‘dark side,’ working at a university and marking assignments, essays and exams.
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Survive Law
Apr 16, 20123 min read
Things I Hate about Textbooks
Textbooks. They’re the foundation of our seminars, lectures and tutorials. We tab them compulsively, highlight them to oblivion (unless you’
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Survive Law
Jul 27, 20112 min read
The Textbook Free Philosophy
The average cost of law textbooks each semester is equivalent to the GDP of a small nation. So you’ve scrounged around under your couch for
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Survive Law
Jun 30, 20104 min read
What do you do with Old Textbooks?
When the semester is over and that tatty old plastic sleeve you use as your exam pencil case gets stuffed away, what do you do with those te
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