Stephanie Anderson
Many students associate the holidays with midterms and finials. The investment we as students in order to gain a law degree are both emotional and physical. Studying, briefing cases, constant practice for presentations and writing research papers can take twelve, and in some cases, fifteen hours a day. In light of this, preparing for holiday trips, or preparing for friend and relative visits are far behind studies in the diligent law student’s priorities.
In can be argued that once a person enters law school the desire to succeed becomes, um, let us say, primal. It is not nearly as important to have social time with family, as it is to remember legal concepts like, doctrine of equitable conversion, or the point of the 14th Amendment. The competition to master the rules of law trumps things like feeding yourself or taking a much need beer- breather.
Because of the capsule law students live in it is easy to forget that having a social meal with friends and family during the Holidays is a very mentally relaxing experience. Not to mention how unbelievably funny it would be to see Uncle Ted in a beer and tryptophan induced coma on the sofa after the turkey dinner. Alternatively, how great would it be to watch your Aunt hit on your sister’s boyfriend during the fun family festivities. This relaxation time, with food of course, could be the perfect remedy for what I call the stressful-am-I-still-in-my- pajamas-at-3pm-reading-a tort- claim-time.
If you have prepared, done your reading (and there is a lot of it) and given thought to your answer then show confidence. Be your own biggest fan. Have an enjoyable down moment and realize there is no need to be self- deprecating to a fault. If you have prepared then you will be ready when the time comes to show what you know, and never be surprised when you do well. Have a little self-confidence, and remember to relax a little bit. Tell yourself you are the bomb, repeatedly! You have earned it.
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