In law school, the shadow of final exams starts looming around early November. A general feeling of tenseness enters the atmosphere, and the law library begins filling up with people hunched over laptops and casebooks, wielding multicolored highlighters like weapons. People start talking about outlining, whether making their own from scratch or using other students’ from outline banks as a guide. Your classmates may start meeting for hours in study groups, bragging about the pristinely-formatted 100-page CivPro outline they just finished or the ten practice exams they’ve already taken.
It’s hard not to buy into the exam stress culture when it is so pervasive—with your grade dependent on one test, the exam becomes the be-all-and-end-all in everyone’s minds, so it makes sense that exam prep becomes a huge topic of conversation. But these discussions not only tend to be circular and unproductive, but also, even with those you consider friends, may be heightening your stress level. So what to do when you want to spend time with your classmates, but don’t want the accompanying anxiety spike from discussing exams? Setting boundaries is vital for your personal wellbeing not only in law school, but also in life, so it’s a great skill to practice now.
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