What I Wish I Knew Before Law School with Quimbee

Wondering if you should go to law school? Watch this exclusive panel and get the inside scoop of what law school is really like from current law students, presented by Quimbee and Blueprint LSAT!
Quimbee, the #1 resource for law students and legal professionals, joined forces with Blueprint LSAT for a co-hosted panel discussion with current law students! The best in LSAT prep is partnering with the best in law school prep to dish on all things law school.
Get answers to some burning law school questions like:
How to prepare for the first year of law school/1L
How to deal with law school stress
How to work and go to law school at the same time
What law school classes are like
How to prep for the LSAT
How to still have fun while being a busy law student.
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Thom: Okay, well, we have people here who haven't yet taken the LSAT, right, and all of you, you know, in law school or like Eric post-law school have taken the LSAT right? So let's talk about that part, since one of the huge hurdles to getting into law school, like sort of the back of the admissions math is that your entire undergrad GPA. Like what you work for years to accomplish is only worth two-thirds as much in your application as this one test score which seems bonkers right? And then can introduce a lot of stress for a lot of people.
Thom: So let's start with just like what made you successful on the LSAT. Maybe you know what made you unsuccessful until you figured out how to account for it. Umm, anyone jump in.
Zach: um yeah I I hated the LSAT. It really is a very big challenge for me, I think it's very difficult um. II took it three times the first time, the first two times you know.
Zach: Like what made me successful on the LSAT, is that I was able to take it, while I was working and it wasn't my entire focus.
Zach: You know I wasn't able...I didn't have the mental bandwidth to like obsess over it, and really like freak out about it all the time. The first two times I took it, I was either in college or working in like a very like low...I was working at a job that I, you know didn't require my full mental capacity um but the third time I took it, I was able to just replace all of like the fun and recreational activities that I would do I just made that into LSAT time and then I worked so it was a stressful period in my life, but like just good time management, I think, is what made me successful thanks for the question.
Thom: Yeah I think time management, like really committing, I mean if you're going to spend as many hours as you need to really see that improvement.
Thom: You know you've got to give up something else, taking a time in your life but it sounds like you recognize this other really important factor balance right that, like, getting to have your brain not think about the LSAT for so much time each day is focused on your work. Like I tell all of my students that but, like if you're going to turn your brain on, you have to be able to turn your brain off right, and I think that's really where a lot of people struggle with burnout and end up plateauing they're not stepping back when they need to.
Thom: Megan/Katelyn how about the two of you? What ended up working for you on the LSAT?
Megan: I can go um so I’m a bit of a perfectionist in the way that if i'm studying for anything, and I have a study guide, for example, and I get a question wrong on it my head's going to spin there's going to be like steam coming out of my ears so for those taking or are studying for the LSAT that was a really big help, and you know teaching me that I have to have a decent amount of mental fortitude where I won't just break down because it's no lie that studying for the LSAT is going to be a little difficult because the test is going to be quite difficult.
Megan: And so, if you're if you're not there mentally then it's...you're not you're not going to be able to do well because you'll freak out in the middle of the test, I know people who've done it because mentally they weren't prepared.

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