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⌈ Secret Post #3315 ⌋

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Re: Sad anon looking for guidance. Trigger warning for suicide/depression I think.

[(Anonymous)]

I like immigration law too. It's just that forcing myself through several hours a day of reading and getting cold called and the competitive/antisocial nature of my classmates is getting to me. My professor grilled me on a cold call last week and I had to go cry in my car after. I just don't feel like I can handle any of it. The theory and policy goes past my head. The cases are excruciating and my professors say they're "written beautifully" and I just cannot understand what they're saying.

They might. The school is very connected to my family. I'm afraid I might bias them to my family because of visiting the center.

Re: Sad anon looking for guidance. Trigger warning for suicide/depression I think.

[philstar22]

Oh god, cold calling. Cold calling is the worst. At my law school only a few professors used it, and the few that did mostly would have you answer just one question. The other professors would assign us days we were on call so we'd know which days to know the reading really well.

But then again my law school does its own thing. We also did quarters and alternated between classes and internships the second and third years. And we had written evaluations rather than grades and no class ranking.

I'm honestly not sure I could have survived a normal law school. I don't do well in pressured environments even though I'm pretty smart.

Re: Sad anon looking for guidance. Trigger warning for suicide/depression I think.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm in the evening program and working during the day. So usually I leave the house at 7:30, come home 10:40, read until 1:00. It's stressful. I don't know how to continue doing it.

I like how your law school sounds. I think mine is pretty typical.

Re: Sad anon looking for guidance. Trigger warning for suicide/depression I think.

[philstar22]

You're working while in law school? Holy crap. No wonder your stressed. At my law school we weren't allowed to work more than 10 hours a week (though some people did anyway). Law school is basically a full time job with how much reading you have.

Of course I now have crippling debt that terrifies me. But I don't think I could have done law school and worked. That's way too much work.

Re: Sad anon looking for guidance. Trigger warning for suicide/depression I think.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a little bit less work than the day program students. We have one full course (like for example torts, property, crim). And then two full year courses (1/2 each semester). And then legal writing/lawyering or whatever it is your school might have called it.

It's less work, but it feels like a lot. 11 hrs a week of classes, 10 hrs a week of reading, feels like a lot. I didn't do work this weekend at all either.

Re: Sad anon looking for guidance. Trigger warning for suicide/depression I think.

[philstar22]

I'm still impressed. Law school reading is intense. I would sometimes have to read a case three or four times to get it. And I'm a fast reader. Slower readers would take several hours a day to get through the reading. It takes up a lot of your brain's energy, so having to focus on work as well is a lot.

I hope you figure out what's best for you and what you need.

Re: Sad anon looking for guidance. Trigger warning for suicide/depression I think.

[philstar22]

Oh, and there is no reason for them to tell your parents you are seeing a therapist on campus. In fact they legally can't. Usually school clinics allow a certain number of free visits. And if not it should be covered by your insurance.