A Day in the Life of a Law Student

As a follow up to my post about how law school really isn't that bad, I thought I'd give a sample of what a typical day is like for me. Here's what I did this past week!

Weekdays

On Mondays and Wednesdays I go to class from 10:30-3 and on Tuesdays and Thursdays it's a little longer form 8-2. Both days I have a long lunch and I get Fridays off :) Here's my day for today: 

7

Get ready

7:30

Drive to class

8-10

Civ Pro

I get a 10 minute break at the hour so I pack breakfast to eat then

10-11:15

Property

11:30-12:30

Lunch

Always while I eat, I read The Skimm which is a daily email about what's going on in the world but simplified 

This is also where on TR I do any reading and notes for my legal research and writing class because those are usually easy readings

During MW this is where I finish my readings for Torts and brief my cases because my lunch is from 11:30-1:30

1-2

Legal Research and Writing 

2:30

I try to do a small workout as soon as I get home to give me a break from law

Related: How to Stay Fit in Law School

3-5

Read pages 140-154 for Contracts tomorrow 

5-6:30

Make, eat, clean up supper

6:30-8:30

Read pages 157-178 for Torts tomorrow

8:30-9

Shower

9-10

Relax/watch TV

11

Bed

My readings take me so long to do so little because I read 10 pages and then watch 10 minutes of Netflix, and I also get bored and take phone breaks. I also space it out where I try to do my briefs right before class so that the information is fresh on my mind by the time I get there. You'll see that I actually have a lot of free time compared to how much reading I have to do.

Related: How to study 9-5 in law school

Weekend

My weekends are mostly for chores— take out the trash and recycling, sweep and swiffer my entire apartment, dishes, and laundry. Again, I like to space out my readings because I can get burnt out when I try to marathon them. Right now my readings aren't too much so I take off almost all of Saturday to watch college football and drink. You gotta enjoy yourself ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This was my last weekend:

Friday

Ready pages 123-140 for Monday's Contracts

Read pages 137-157 for Monday's Torts

Saturday

Read pages 191-206 for Tuesday's Civ Pro

Do briefs for what I read yesterday 

🏈 and 🍻

Sunday

Read pages 144-164 for Tuesday's Property

Update outline for Contracts and add highlights from book to notes

Same for Torts - because I've already read for my Tuesday classes, I save updating those notes for Monday evening

Time management

Law school has really made me mature in terms of managing my time. It's a lot easier to do a little every day instead of piling it all onto one day. I think part of what helped this is the necessity of having to read every single day. It also helps having a three-day weekend so that I really have a lot of time to get myself organized. Honestly if it weren't for my planner I'd have a hard time staying on top of this.

Related: Time balancing in law school

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