Day in the Life

I stand like this all day- carefree and model-esque

So for the last several weeks I've been trying to plan out this post where I sort of give a day in the life of a law student snapshot.  The plan was one day I would just write down everything I did so that prospective law school people can see just what goes into our day to day life as law students.  But every day that I tried to do this something would always happen that just threw me way off track and wasn't the usual.  Like last weekend I had 2 different people on the same day say they were in town only for the evening and wanted to get together.  Or other days I will have a bigillion meetings that force me to stay up until 2:30 in the morning finishing my work but who wants to hear about that scariness (:  So moral of the story: Life is never normal in law school.  With meetings, friends, reading up to your eyeballs each day brings a new adventure.  It's fun but definitely stressful and keeps me on my toes.  Here is mock schedule of a "normal" day but like I said I haven't had one in quite some time now.

Typical Tuesday

7:45 Wake up after having hit the snooze button about 5 times

7:45-8 Check email, Read CNN, Read a blog or 2

8-8:20 Shower

8:20-8:55 Breakfast, Get Dressed, Hair/Makeup, Franctically grab all my books/finish up any last minute reading I didn't do

8:55-9 Walk to class (amazing benefit of living on campus)

9-11 Contracts (always accompaniged with some caffinated beverage)

Amen Sister...

11-12 Lunch, Email, Blog reading, Facebook

12-3:30 Read/Take Notes on my Torts Assignment (some people do this days in advance but I find that because my teacher is a scary cold-caller I prefer to have the readings fresh in my mind)

3:30-5:30 Torts

What I've learned from torts- just walk a step and expect to be sued...

5:30-6:30 mandatory 1 hour break after a class- email, facebook, sometimes a run if I'm adventurous

6:30-7 Dinner

7-8 Reading/Looking at Old notes from the week

8-9 Glee while doing work

9-1 Reading, Taking Notes, Preparing for the next day, Somewhere in there I'll usually talk on the phone with Kevin for a half hour to hour as well

<<<<<<SLEEP>>>>>>>

So that's a typical non-meeting, non-surprise visit, non-slacking Tuesday!  Everybody handles their time differently but as you can see from my schedule I'm work-intensive in the evening and like to give myself "me" time after classes.  I know lots of people who get up super early to work out, others who prefer to do their work all during "business hours", and a few who literally work 24/7... bottom line do what's right for you.  Don't try and change the wheel.  Hope this is helpful and as always please let me know if you would like to see any particular posts on here!  I've heard from a few of you that a law school app. advice post might be helpful so later this weekend I might do that. Thank you for all of the support as I make my way through this first semester!  Have a lovely weekend and remember- GO IRISH BEAT TROJANS!!!

                                               Miss this everyday