Entries by BARBRI

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#barpreplife: The Calm Before The Storm

GUEST BLOG by Gianna Venticinque, Graduate of Northern Illinois College of Law We’re finally in the home stretch – when you read this we’ll have 10 MORE DAYS. I feel like I’m calmer than I should be and I don’t know why. I’ve started to condense all of the outlines into smaller, more manageable ‘lists’ that […]

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#The3Llife: Gratitude

GUEST BLOG by Harrison Thorne, 3L at UCLA Law I’ve written about gratitude before, but it bears repeating. Gratitude—saying thank you or expressing appreciation towards another person—brings joy into that person’s life, as well as your own. An increasing number of psychiatrists and researchers are taking note of gratitude. I recently listened to an audiobook […]

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#The2Llife: Getting Involved

GUEST BLOG by Lauren Rose, 2L at University of Detroit Mercy  This may sound cheesey . . . . . . and you can think of me as a cornball or whatever, but I think it is so very important to get involved in law school. My law school’s “Barristers’ Ball” – AKA law school prom […]

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#The1Llife: Pressing On After A Loss

GUEST BLOG by Dani Gies, 1L at UCLA School of Law This post is going to be of a different tone than my previous ones. Last Thursday, I lost my great uncle to lymphoma. He was more like my uncle and second dad to my mom though. He was a brilliant, compassionate, selfless, encouraging, loving […]

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#barpreplife: The Beast

GUEST BLOG by Gianna Venticinque, Graduate of Northern Illinois College of Law It’s finally February! I took the dreaded practice MBE about 5 days ago (a week from when you’ll be reading this). And if any of you follow @barpreplife on Twitter, you know that it was a BEAST. I tweeted that it ripped out […]