Part 2 : 7 things I wish I knew before joining law school ! Do Not Miss !!!

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. This is Shreya Pasar and we will be continuing with the topic the things I wish I knew in my first semester. First of all, attendance is a real thing. I don't know who say that, you know, go and take experience, this is the year you should go and do fun. No, you can't. If you don't, if you have like 0.1% attendance shortage, your exams will be cancelled. You will be kicked out of all your opportunities and everything. You won't be able to do your mood codes, internships. Exams, most important. Without giving exams, you won't be allowed to do any of these things. So yeah, attendance is very very important. Don't ever try to bunk. I mean, you can miss a few classes for genuine reason. But if you think that it's just law school, you can come and you can bunk anytime. That's not actually true. If Christ, 85%, other colleges 70 or 75% you require. So, don't. And if you don't have that much attendance, there will be lot of hefty fines you have to pay, library hours and what not punishments you will get. So, be very particular about your attendance. Next is, law school is more about self-study than teaching. This is, I guess, most important thing I'm uttering right now. Because everyone of us think like, you know, as in schools, our professors, our teachers taught us everything. But in law school or in any of the colleges you go, professors won't teach you every possible thing. They will teach you basic of that concept. Like, let's say, if a teacher is teaching you taught or contrast, they'll just tell you like, what are this, you know, big big chunks of it. 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 you go home, you have to open the books, what teacher taught you in the class. And if you're not doing it, I'm thinking that you're doing the biggest mistake of law school. If you open the books, you start reading, just see that teachers would have taught you in a 5% or something. But there would be actually 95% extra you have to cover. And while you give your exams, teacher would expect that, you know, that entire 100%, which they never taught. So, yeah, expecting. And then you think that you will go and run behind teachers, ask them to teach that particular point. They won't. It's college. Teachers won't even listen to you. They would just, you know, come and they're like, OK, meet me at that time. And then they will again be like, they'll just keep you on date and date. It's like that will actually go like a code saying you would ever be, you know, getting a proceeding. Yeah. Don't run behind teachers to clear your doubts. Instead, 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 each and every possible detail that you think. No, that's not true. They'll give you basic understanding, though. Next is you don't need to know everything immediately. I know a lot of my friends, even your friends, when you come and they're like, oh, you don't know this, you don't know that. Just tell them to keep their mouth shut because you won't know everything in your first year or first semester. You will learn eventually. Like if right now I ask you that, do you know drafting or do you know how to use the LinkedIn very properly? If I just ask you that, do you know how to write a CV from there, things will actually begin. You just can't assume you just can't learn everything. Even if I ask about certain law and the teachers or students will be like, oh, this is such a basic thing you don't know. And you won't, you won't actually. So just ignore that stuff and just try to learn things, try to grab things and not to chunk them up. OK, next is networking starts from day one. This is a very important be extrovert or be ambivert at safer side. Go and talk to people. I don't be people pleaser, but at least don't be that, you know, be in your shell. Don't do that. Stop being in your bubble. Go talk to people, explore. Yeah. But, you know, going and talking to people doesn't mean that you go and talk to each and every person. Go and talk to those people which you think that they will be helpful in your career or they will be helpful for you in certain way. Like if there is a moot court being organized in your college and you're not actually going and connecting to the lawyers or judges that came over there, you're doing biggest mistake. Go and connect. Ask for their LinkedIn. Talk to them. And I don't just go initially and just be like, please, can you give us internship? Yeah, so please. I mean, you know, innovation, they do get up, I'm actually going to get connected to that stuff. It looks very bad initially. Just go and talk to them normally that. So whatever you were talking on stage or whatever you said or whatever thing, you know, just compliment them initially. Tell them that what were your learnings from them? Like, you know, like if I tell you a very example, let's say there's some judge or there's a lawyer who came as a judge for your moot court. You saw him taking the proceedings. Maybe you're a clerk or you're a participant, whatever. You saw him take the proceedings and you see that. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. So it was very good session that you took. And the way you give the remarks that made a lot of change in you. What remarks did you felt like that was actually helpful? Like, for example, if he told you to actually know how to make a memorial or how to argue or some portrait, just go and tell him when I appreciate him for that. OK, maybe I'm not that clear, but I hope you're understanding it. So, yeah, just don't initially bombard with the question of LinkedIn or internship. Don't do that. Try to build connections slowly, but talk to them. That's more important. If you talk to them, they will if they like, then they will from they will give themselves only their LinkedIn or anything. They might offer you internship also. If not, then you can just ask very politely. So, please, can I have a LinkedIn? I want to be with you in future connection also. Or maybe get into some professional or academic collaboration. You can ask for that. That's fine. But afterwards, at the end, you can ask. Next is comparison will destroy your confidence. Yeah, stop comparing yourself with your peers. Doesn't matter. As I told you in my previous video, everyone is confused, everyone flex, everyone show off that they know everything. But then the reality is that no one knows anything. If you compare yourself, let's say if I am a science student and if I compare me with some art student, I won't be benefited ever. So similarly, you thinking that, you know, that person, maybe he's a third generation, fourth generation or anything. And you will be like, oh, I am a first generation. How would I do? I just saw that that person is being so extraordinary class answering everything. And then you start judging yourself that you are so dumb or you don't know anything. Then stop doing that. It also doesn't look. It will destroy you eventually. So stop comparing yourself. No one's perfect. Nothing in this world could ever claim themselves to be perfect. OK, next is sleep actually affects your performance. I know, especially if you are in a residential college, you will get that 24 hours timing and you can, you know, be in campus 24 by 7. And sometimes people be actually I have been in campus for 24 by 7. But then I feel that, you know, sleep is more important in law school because you have to process a lot during entire daytime. You have a lot of knowledge to gain. You have a lot of things to do in the daytime. So then if you are not sleeping properly, if you're not taking the rest, your brain will actually, you know, start malfunctioning. So it's very important that you take a very good sleep. Sleep like a baby. Don't think about your CIs. Don't think about your assignments. Don't think about any leftover about your committees. Just don't think sleep. That's more important. Start prioritizing your things. OK, that is also very important. Next is reading judgment is a skill. Yes. I just remember first day we came to college during our orientation. There is one of our senior faculty who was taking the lecture and he told us, you are here for 1000 days in this college. In this thousand days, if you read one judgment every day, by the end of five years, you will be having a thousand judgments read. That was a big thing because there are people who haven't read even a single judgment. And there are people who have actually read 1000 judgments or more than that. So you have to start reading your judgments. You know, I know it's found like those big books and, you know, those hundred pages. Sometimes it is really a chaos. But then at a time, this is very important. What you can do is, if not hundred pages, just take a very small judgment, maybe of some high court. I was Supreme Court. Some of the famous cases, you know, and you are absolutely interested in it. Let's take those cases. Let's just start reading. Slowly, we'll start and actually analyzing the things you will understand. What is file like? What is Iraq? Then you will be able to comprehend better. But for that, it's a skill. You will learn it eventually. So for that, you have to practice. Next is moot courts are scary. Initially, I have made a proper video on what are moot courts. Do watch it. Moot courts like I know initially when you come in the first semester of first year. People will be like, don't take participation in your first year. But I am telling you, go and take part in moot courts. They are very important. And I just don't have any other word that is very important. Law in practice and law in life. Law in books is very different. I always quote this. Law in practice is actually what you will learn in moot courts. So do take part. Next is you will change as a person. And I guess this line is self-explanatory. You come to law school. You will be a complete, I guess, nerd or maybe you will be just, you know, some kind of random, clueless person. By the end of this five years, you will be turning into a lawyer. You will be highly intellectual, having a lot of presence of mind. And I guess would be, you know, controlling the society, would be changing the policies in the society. Would be making laws for people, would be changing their lives, would be affecting the society in entirety. So, yeah, the responsibilities you will hold will change you to different person. And you will do it eventually. So don't come with that mindset that, no, I will be this person only. I won't change with the circumstances. Don't be that. Don't be a hard rock. Be a smooth clay which can be molded as you like. So, yeah, you will turn into a better person. Next is, yeah, productivity on social media is fake sometimes. You will see, you know, people being highly productive. They will be posting this, that, that they are doing this. Even I do sometimes. But then understand that if we are posting anything or even any of the YouTubers are posting anything, that's maybe because they have been doing it like very frequently. You will also post it sometimes. You will also be very productive. But for that initially smaller time, when you think that, no, they are being so productive. So I should also be, no. You can inspire from them. You can get inspired. But then don't, just don't compare yourself. Instead, get to know this fact that if, you know, they are doing it, you can also. For that, start, you know, initially by smaller bits. You know, just start by a challenge. Maybe you, one week you do consistently. Eventually you will get that habit and you will be productive for like, you know, days and days. That would be endless. So, yeah, productivity is like not fake. But I guess it's what they have did or like, you know, I'm not getting the word. They have increased it gradually. You will also do it. If you see, they will be like, you know, they are just doing it every time. So that's not true. We have learned it. You will also do it. So, yeah. Next is one bad semester is not an end. This is very important. Initially, your first semester, I guess, you ask for any loss. But we overcome it. You should also. Your first semester would be not as best as you expected. You won't be having, you know, that much things to be aware about. You won't achieve that milestones that you thought. But eventually, yes, you will start improving. Eventually, you will get that thing that, yeah, you have to, you know, be something else. What mistakes you are doing, you will learn that. And the next semester will be good for you. But initially, first semester, if it's bad, just forget and move on. Next is the biggest learning is how to learn. As I told you, learning from your mistakes is much important. So, focus on that. And just don't think that, you know, this went off. Now, everything is ruined. No, nothing is ruined. You will grow back. If you are cut by your stem, but still you will grow. And I guess that's it. You will be in your peak times at a time. But for that, you have to, you know, gradually start. There should be a starting point. And don't think about that end point. So, legal research and all. I know it's very overwhelming at times. Like, how can we in first year come 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 tried to add few content of law in it. And it got published as well. So, you can try that. Then, CV building. I know at first you will be like, we have done nothing. We have no clues. But still, you know, do certain activities. Start taking participation in as many things as possible. And try to build it up. Do some courses. Attend some webinars, some conferences. You will build it up eventually, okay? Then, LinkedIn. Understand how LinkedIn works. Start building your connections. You will get lot of CIs regarding your LinkedIn and everything. So, that will be very important. How many connections you have on your LinkedIn. Next is drafting. Basic drafting you should start learning. Maybe just, you know, format. It's very easy. As a first year, if you at least know how to write a basic format. That will also suffice. Then, apart from format, you can start actually writing few paragraphs of drafting. That would help a lot. Just, you know, take some random problem and just start writing. Maybe you will just blabber initially. It might be the shittest draft ever possible. But still, that's fine. That's completely normal. Everyone does it and you should try doing it as well. Next is consistency matter more than motivation. This is very important. In law school, extrinsic motivations are very limited. There won't be, you know, every time someone would come and praise you. There won't be always appraisals. So, that time, I don't think so. If you are in search of that extrinsic motivation, you will ever excel. You need that consistency. At least, not consistency of studying, but at least showing up daily. Maybe attending your college daily. That will also make a huge change. Then next is, everyone is confused initially. Yes, this is so true. You are thinking that your peers are just outstanding. They are great. They are doing everything. No, that's not true. Everyone is confused. And they are also trying to pretend. And showing off, pretending, faking things. It's so true in law school, at least. I have seen people actually, you know, first day everyone would come. And they would be like, you know, they will be telling this answer, that answer. But after, you know, few days, few stems or few exams, they will start knowing that they don't know even the simplest things possible. So, don't underjudge yourself. Don't try to narrow yourself. Don't get that, you know, social anxiety. Don't be introvert in all the situations. Try to cope up. Try to understand. If you are not able to still speak up in the class. If you are still confused. Try to, you know, actually get some external help. Talk to your seniors. Watch YouTube videos. Read books. Easiest possible thing. Before teacher teaches you something, they tell you that, yes, tomorrow in this class you will be studying this. You go and you study it priorly. So that you have lot of content. At least, you know, you will speak once or twice in the class. And that's more than enough, okay. So, yeah. That was all for this video. I think still there are lot of points left. So, we will get a next part as well. So, yeah, that's all. Bye-bye.