7 things I wish I knew before joining law school 👩‍💼

If I could restart my law school, I will definitely tell myself this. I wish this would have someone told me in my first BLLB. This would have actually changed my grades, sleep and sanity for sure. First semester is not about being excelling and being perfect. It's about surviving and learning. You will take time but slowly you will start figuring out everything what works best for you and you will be all perfect. Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. This is Shreya Pasad and today we are going to discuss things I wish I knew before my first semester. So first, you don't need perfect notes. This is such a biggest myth. You see on that Pinterest there are very pretty notes and you think to take this similar in law school. It's not possible because there's a lot of content and you will just keep on writing notes and not actually memorizing anything out of it. Second is bear acts are more important than you think. This is very true in first sem in at least our college. We have contract act like in first year itself. So in contract act, a lot of students are there who have not purchased bear act. But this is very important. I did but then I knew a few of my friends who didn't. So I just thought that we should add it. So bear acts are very, very important. If you are not able to understand anything, but still you should go and just give it a feed. Next is seniors are your biggest resource. Yeah, that's also very important. You know, just go and talk to your seniors. Like if you want to know that how you can study and what things are there regarding your CIs or your research or any of that kind of work, you can go and talk to your seniors. They have already experienced it. They can help you better. They have spent their, you know, few years in this institute or in this college. So they will help you much more better. And yeah, that bragging and all. I just feel sometimes in movies, because in real life, we have a lot of laws regarding it. So I don't think there is a law school to the colleges I have seen. It doesn't happen. So yeah, that's true. Yeah, but there are few cases that it happened, but still you should know who are your good seniors and just go and talk to them. You can ask your teachers also. Like my teachers gave me some references. I went and I talked to them and they were really sweet. So you can do that as well. Next is start speaking in class as early as possible. This is also very important. Everyone is underconfident on their first day. They are very nervous, but still that's the time. You can actually go and speak up. Know the topic which is going to be happening in the class beforehand. So you have something to speak and just go and start speaking. Don't think that what that other person would think about you, how they will judge you doesn't matter. Honestly, just go and start talking. Next is, yes, don't buy every book. I guess a lot of us do this mistake in that, you know, we are in the suit mode. So yeah, we are in that suit mood and we are like, oh, let's buy this book. Let's buy that book. I don't think so. It actually matters. You should know which books you should refer online, which you should go and actually borrow from library or which are those books which you have to actually purchase. It should be helpful in future as well. Books should not be a decoration shelf. They should be actually being helpful to you. So yeah, choose accordingly. Then yeah, internships matter earlier than you think. So yeah, internships is very important topic. Lot of, you know, teachers, friends, your seniors will come and tell you to do internship. I know you'd be highly confused. Yet, just start with at least a basic online internship and you will get to learn multiple of things. And I always stress that internships are much more important. Law in practice and law in books are very different. So you should learn what that law in practice actually means. Next is start exploring legal research, CV, LinkedIn and drafting as early as possible again. So legal research and all. I know it's very overwhelming at times. Like how can we enforce your comment across legal research? Okay, not legal research. Something closest to legal research. Like I wrote this particular paper and it's not directly related to law. I try to add few content of law in it. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. I will be continuing with the topic. But things I wish I knew in my first semester. Do certain activities. First of all, attendance is a real thing. I don't know who said that. If you don't, if you have a 0.1% attendance shortage, your exams will be cancelled. And you will be cut out of all of your opportunities and everything. You won't be able to do your MOOCs, internships, exams and everything. So that would be very important. Without doing exams, you won't be allowed to do any of these things. Next is drafting. So yeah, attendance is very important. Don't ever try to bump format. I mean, you can miss your few classes for general reasons. If you actually know how to write a law school, you can come and you can bump anytime. That's not actually true. If you start actually writing Christ, 85% other colleges, 75% you'll miss choir. You'll pick some random problem and just start writing. And if you don't blabber initially, there will be a lot and be the shittest draft ever possible. But still, that's fine. That's completely normal. Everyone does that. Be very particular about your attendance as well. Next is next. It's more about self-study than motivation. This is very important. In law school, extensive motivations are very limited. Everyone of us think like, you know, every time someone would come and professors or teachers taught us everything. So that I'm not in school or in any of the colleges, that is motivation. Professors will teach you every possible thing. They will teach you a basic of that concept. Like let's say, if you're studying, at least you will be taught a concept. They won't go in depth of each and every concept. For that, you have to have a habit of self-study. You should know that outstanding, they're great, they're doing everything. You have to, you know, open the books, what teacher taught you in the class. And if you're not trying to pretend and showing off, pretending, faking things, if you open the books, you start reading. I have seen people actually, you know, for say, 5% or something, and they would be like, you know, they would be telling this answer or that answer. You have to cover. But after, you know, few days, few exams, teacher would expect that, you know, entire 100%, they don't know even the simplest things. So yeah, expecting and then you think that, you know, and when behind teachers, don't try to narrow yourself. Don't get that, you know, social anxiety, which teachers won't even listen to you. Try to cope up, try to understand. If you're not able to speak up in the class, like, if you're still confused, try to, you know, actually get some personal help. Talk to your seniors, watch YouTube videos, read books. Easiest for say, you know, use books, use, you know, internet, anything, but I don't think so. Actually, professors will come and they will be teaching you, you know, each and every possible detail that you think that's important for them, okay? So yeah, that was all for this video. I think still there are a lot of points left, so go get out, even your friends as well.