067: Your Mid-Semester Law School To-Do List
The Law School Toolbox Podcast: Tools for Law Students from 1L to the Bar Exam, and Beyond
Welcome back to the Law School Toolbox podcast. Today we're running through your mid-semester to-do list to ensure you're where you need to be before it's too late.
Mid-semester is the time when reality sets in for most law students. Whatever is going on - midterms, sniffles, boredom - it's time to focus on the end goal and get serious about preparation. Here's what you need to be doing, now.
In this episode we discuss:
- How you should handle the next 7-8 weeks
- The importance of deep work in the second half of the semester
- Setting up your study calendar
- Getting ready for finals
- Ways of tracking your time if you're not sure how it's slipping away
- Searching for a summer job as a 1L (you can start Dec. 1)
- Avoiding distractions and battling procrastination
- How to do a self check-in
- Where to go for help
- Stress management techniques and staying healthy
- How to manage your personal relationships, especially around the holidays and exams
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Thanks for listening! Good luck the rest of the semester!
Alison & Lee
Resources:
- Having an October Freakout? Of Course You Are! (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/having-an-october-freakout-of-course-you-are/)
- The October Freakout (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/having-an-october-freakout-of-course-you-are/)
- Your Mid-Semester Reality Check (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-36/)
- How to Make a Useful Law School Outline (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-65-make-a-useful-law-school-outline/)
- Dealing With Self-Sabotaging Behavior in Law School (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/podcast-episode-63-dealing-self-sabotaging-behavior-law-school/)
- Fast, Healthy and Cheap Meals in Law School (http://lawschooltoolbox.com/fast-healthy-and-cheap-eating-in-law-school/)
- Toggl (https://toggl.com/)
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