Kimm Walton is the author of "Guerilla Tactics for Getting the Legal Job of Your Dreams," and a PAD alumna.
Following is her answer to the question of what's an effective way to balance work, study life issues?
To balance school obligations with work and family commitments, you have to learn to study efficiently as opposed to a lot! It’s easy to get sucked into time wasting study activities, like recopying your notes.
Here’s a way to minimize your study time: for every new section you study in a class, read an overview of it in the study aid of your choice. Then read the cases. Highlight the important points; issue, reasoning, and so forth. Go back and skim the overview.
Before exams, go over any old exams the professor makes available, and if you’re offered a “mock test,†by all means take it and see where you need to brush up. That’s about it.
The short answer is: if you’re spending all of your time studying, you’re doing something you don’t need to be doing. You SHOULD have a life of your own. I know it looms large, but it’s only law school!
Following is her answer to the question of what's an effective way to balance work, study life issues?
To balance school obligations with work and family commitments, you have to learn to study efficiently as opposed to a lot! It’s easy to get sucked into time wasting study activities, like recopying your notes.
Here’s a way to minimize your study time: for every new section you study in a class, read an overview of it in the study aid of your choice. Then read the cases. Highlight the important points; issue, reasoning, and so forth. Go back and skim the overview.
Before exams, go over any old exams the professor makes available, and if you’re offered a “mock test,†by all means take it and see where you need to brush up. That’s about it.
The short answer is: if you’re spending all of your time studying, you’re doing something you don’t need to be doing. You SHOULD have a life of your own. I know it looms large, but it’s only law school!