Motivation...
Well… we haven’t put many posts up recently, but I figured this would be a good topic to pick things back up again. Motivation. In order to do well in law school you need several things:
1 The need for absolutely no social life
2 A brown nose (post forthcoming)
3 Motivation
Motivation is possibly the hardest of these three elements to achieve. Especially in your second semester! I, like nearly 85% of my classmates (anyone not in top 15) was unhappy with my first semester grades. I really feel that I worked hard, and deserved higher grades than I received. That has made this semester that much more difficult.
First semester, it was easy to get motivated. You were fascinated, you were inspired (at times), you dreamed of all of the money you would make someday, and mainly, you didn’t know better. Now, after having completed a semester, I have found it harder than ever to get motivated. There are several reasons why:
1 Disappointment from first semester grades
2 Unwillingness to work that hard again for mediocre grades
3 Many people in a similar situation who also don’t feel like starting all over
4 All of the A-holes talking about how well they did and the great jobs they’re interviewing for
5 Increased workload (impossible right? No.)
How does one combat these issues? Certainly there’s nothing you can do about disappointment, brown-nosers, and increased workload, but how can you get motivated to just tolerate them? That’s what I need to know. Leave a comment...
1 The need for absolutely no social life
2 A brown nose (post forthcoming)
3 Motivation
Motivation is possibly the hardest of these three elements to achieve. Especially in your second semester! I, like nearly 85% of my classmates (anyone not in top 15) was unhappy with my first semester grades. I really feel that I worked hard, and deserved higher grades than I received. That has made this semester that much more difficult.
First semester, it was easy to get motivated. You were fascinated, you were inspired (at times), you dreamed of all of the money you would make someday, and mainly, you didn’t know better. Now, after having completed a semester, I have found it harder than ever to get motivated. There are several reasons why:
1 Disappointment from first semester grades
2 Unwillingness to work that hard again for mediocre grades
3 Many people in a similar situation who also don’t feel like starting all over
4 All of the A-holes talking about how well they did and the great jobs they’re interviewing for
5 Increased workload (impossible right? No.)
How does one combat these issues? Certainly there’s nothing you can do about disappointment, brown-nosers, and increased workload, but how can you get motivated to just tolerate them? That’s what I need to know. Leave a comment...
posted by Pat at 1:40 PM
2 Comments:
No motivation your second semester? Try your second semester of your third year. As far as the mediocre grades, TALK TO YOUR PROFESSORS. They are a great tool to find out what they specifically are looking for and how to improve generally. This can help you to pick the important stuff to work on and not do the rest. BTW- I cannot tell you how much the class placement changes the second semester when everyone knows how to take law school exams. The ones who did great their first semester likely did it out of luck.
I'm interested to see where my class rank lands after about 1/5 of my class dropped out. Percentage wise it is a bummer...I think I'll encourage those above me to transfer...
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