New Year's Resolutions For 2Ls

1. I will stop berrating myself for not briefing cases. I haven't briefed a case since my first week of my first year, what makes me think I will start now?
2. I will only buy the REQUIRED books for class. I don't care how reinvigorated I think I am, spending 100s of dollars on SUGGESTED reading is the is like flushing 100 dollar bills down the toilet.
3. I wil stop trying to make friends with other law students and accept them as what they are: future business contacts. They like me for the same reason I pretend to like them...a potential means to an end.
4. I will remember that I only have 3 more semesters left of school. Thus only 3 more semesters to act like I'm in college.
5. Repeat after me... Law School is not fun. Law School is not fun. Law School is not fun.
6. I pledge, on my honor, to respec the attendance policy. I will never go an entire semester without using all of my allotted absences.
7. I will not voluntarily take on extracurricular activities that do not promise free food or alcohol.
8. I will no longer attend peer question driven review sessions. If I am afraid I will miss something, I will remember what I have learned from other such review sessions...NOTHING and recall that one on one time in office hours can be useful.
9. I will buy Gilberts for all of my classes and religiously use them to cram for exams rather than do all the extra work my classmates think is so useful. Further, I will remember that outlines that have worked for others are good enough for me.
10. I will respond honestly to public inquiries about law school. It is not fun. I don't like it. I only continue becuase $40,000 of debt will be hard to pay off with half of a law degree.