Law school actually doesn't appear to be as outrageous as I thought, as long as you're on top of shit. There is a SHIT-TON of work but I'm getting better at recognizing how much of it is actually important. They throw an outrageous amount of material at you and then expect you to know what to remember and what to completely disregard. The two options are:
-Remember all of it
-Learn to distinguish
Remembering all of it is actually a negative. The workload is manageable if you know what you're supposed to know and can get rid of the rest. If not, you mostly likely aren't "getting it." It's brutal if you're not sure (in that case, you memorizing everything makes you look even more like you don't know what you're doing).
Note: Including class time I put in between 13-15 hours per day into studying. A big part of this is determining what to exclude.
It's definitely possible to study a 3-4 page case for like 5 hours and not understand the relevant facts at all. I have been able to fend off professors thus far but have seen otherwise "smart" people reduced nearly to tears by professors who are trying to make a specific point. Not understanding relevancy is the law school equivalent of bleeding out of your asshole in the midst of a great white feeding frenzy. The evil professors feed on this and will continuously question you for the entire hour and fifteen minutes, knowing the whole time that you're completely at a loss as to the main concept. I've had a couple of hour-and-15-minute classes where 90% of the questions were directed at one person who just didn't "get it." It's like watching someone getting waterboarded.
Other than that, all is well.
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