Staying mentally and physically healthy in law school can be a challenge, given the pressure of exams, the long hours of studying, and the overall stress level in the law library.
But you can do it! Read on for strategies for managing the stress of law school and techniques for staying physically and mentally fit as a law student.
Stress Relief and Physical Health
- Exams Are Over! How to Have a Relaxing, Happy Winter Break and a Productive Semester Congratulations, you’ve survived law school exams! (If you’re still working on them, just bookmark this for later reading, and keep studying.) What’s next?
- Reflections of a 2L: How to Use Your Experience to Plan Ahead for 3L Year A rising 3L discusses her challenging 2L year and reflects on how she will use her experiences (positive and negative) to plan ahead for 3L year.
- How to Avoid Burnout Hillary Vaillancourt offers some advice for avoiding burnout as a law student and lawyer.
- What Ted Lasso Teaches Me About Succeeding in the Law Tiffany Lo discusses what lessons she's learned from various Ted Lasso characters that have helped in law school.
- 4 Tips for Staying Healthy in Law School We all know law school is time consuming, particularly during exams. But you know what’s extra time consuming? Having to spend the whole day sick in bed! A 1L shares what she’s learned about staying healthy and sane in law school.
- How to Combat Stress and the 2L Slump Fighting off stress may be the toughest battle that a law student has to contend with -- especially someone in the 2L slump. If that's you, check out these strategies!
- The Difference Between 1L and 2L Stressors If you're transitioning from 1L to 2L year, you might notice that the stressors surrounding you have changed. Here's how to navigate these two very different years of law school.
- The Ultimate Guide to the Law in Pop Culture Part 1: TV Shows Want to unwind, but feel guilty about binging more lowbrow reality shows instead of studying? No problem. We have you covered with the ultimate list of legal entertainment to mitigate that conscience-stricken feeling.
- The Ultimate Guide to the Law in Pop Culture Part II: Movies & Documentaries For law students who either prefer full-length films to hour-long episodes, or are simply looking for some good legal entertainment during a law school break, the second part of our series focuses on the law found in the forms of movies and documentaries.
- The Ultimate Guide to the Law in Pop Culture Part III: Travel Media In our final installment of the ultimate guide to the law in pop culture series, the focus is on forms of media for law students that are easily transportable and non-intrusive, making them great for either travel or those lulls in-between classes.
Mental Health in Law School
- One Flew Over the Law School: 10 Sanity-Saving Strategies Lawyers are meant to be driven, resilient, competitive, organized, professional, articulate and perhaps even aloof, calculating, detached. Emotional issues and mental imbalance are NOT a part of that calculus. But, that’s not always true, is it?
- Dealing With Imposter Syndrome Imposter syndrome refers to persistent feelings of being a fraud, being unable to fully incorporate your successes (or success generally) into your sense of self, despite outside indicators. Kathryn Blair looks at how this can impact you as a law student and what you can do to combat it.
- Dealing With Law School Breakdowns Law school breakdowns happen, let's face it. But you can overcome them!
- Speaking My Truth: Mental Health in Law School Law school can be hugely stressful and can lead to mental health struggles for many students. Don't miss this first-hand account of dealing with these struggles and how this law student moved forward.
- Why Therapy Should be Embraced in Law School Law school is stressful and hectic, and it's important to find coping mechanisms. We're hearing from Alexandra Muskat about how therapy helped her survive law school and why she thinks law schools should embrace it more.
- Why Mental Health and Sleep Are Important for Law School Success Trying to decide between reading one final chapter and getting to bed at an almost-decent hour? Is everyone telling you that you need to slow down and relax? They're probably right!
- Ways to Stay Mentally Healthy in Law School Law school is stressful, and it can certainly take a toll on anyone's mental health. Alexandra Muskat looks at specific steps you can take to make sure you are keeping yourself as mentally healthy as possible as you embark on law school.
- Law Students Deserve Better Than “Get Tough or Get Out” Are law schools responsible for the struggles of their students with mental health? Maybe so!
- Surviving the October 1L Freakout Something’s in the air, and it’s not just the crisp beginning of autumn. It’s time for the collective October 1L Freakout. Well, put your mind at ease — it’s quite normal, and there’s a very good reason for it.
- Law School Depression and Anxiety Zoila Sanchez discusses how to handle mental health struggles in law school.
- The Story Of My (Almost Disastrous) Second Semester of Law School Did you know Alison nearly bombed all her second-semester classes? It's true! Here's the story.