I have leftover pizza, an exceptional Absolut cocktail, and episode 2 of the A-List: New York waiting for me, but I am taking a happy hour pause to speak to the 1Ls because I love you like Joan Rivers loves botox. Y’all still around?

A few friendly reminders:

1. Breathe.
2. Start organizing your notes this weekend (outlining) so you don’t have a “oh shit” moment at Thanksgiving when you realize that finals are around the corner. Use the syllabus as a skeletal outline and see if you need to review anything from the beginning of the semester. This is also a good time to hit up classmates for missing notes.
3. Consider book briefing.
4. Stop procrastinating your legal writing work. That will bite you in the ass. I promise.
5. You didn’t become superhuman upon surviving two months of law school. You still need to sleep and eat, and on a related note…
6. Remember to embrace the burnout.

For example, today I ran around for about 12 hours: studying, fumbling around the tax clinic, dealing with the meltdown of my craptastic school laptop, and attending class (without a laptop ah!)

I have an essay, a research paper, and a presentation to finish. But I am not doing any more work today. I am going to partake in this pizza,  my cocktail, and watch my trashy reality show before I go to bed. Why? Because I am burnt out and anything I do tonight will just have to be redone in the morning. It is  far more efficient for me to relax, sleep 8 hours, get up early, and then do great work.

How many unproductive hours are you wasting in the library after you’ve burnt out?  If you catch yourself reading at a snail’s pace because you spent all day studying then stop. You are burned out and need to rest. Grab a beverage and watch the A-List with me. No one is going to beat you if you finish your homework tomorrow morning.

That’s all grasshoppers! Now to the A-List…