How can I regain motivation in law school? And generally, in life…?
Short Bio: 23 year old Caucasian female. Currently a 1L law student. Second oldest of 8 children. Raised in a loving family. No history of significant health or psychological issues. Some history of depression in immediate family.
I have a track record of academic excellence. While I am not exactly what you would call an ‘overachiever’, I am a shrewd and efficient student. I finished my freshman year of college during my senior year of high school, graduated in the top 5% of my high school class, received a hefty scholarship to a leading university, and graduated magna cum laude. Due to my advanced credit status I could have completed a B.A. in 2 1/2 years, but opted to stretch it to 4 because I wanted a full "college experience" and, well, my scholarship extended 4 years and I wanted to take advantage of it. Anyway, blah blah blah, that’s only to illustrate the fact that I don’t have a history of poor performance in the past.
Now to the point. I have landed myself in law school (once again riding on a generous scholarship). However I am struggling to find motivation to strive for excellence, or even mediocrity for that matter. I have lost my ‘purpose’, I suppose. I’ve been racking my brain to identify what has been my source of motivation up until this point….and I have no clue. I take my butt to the library every day to study, only to end up spending hours reading about the health care debate, or researching whatever odd topic I find interesting that day. Ridiculous!! It’s like I’m subconsciously sabotaging myself!! Every day I I leave school vowing to ‘do better’ tomorrow and feeling like a lost cause.
Also, I used to be a workout-aholic. I would work out every day, didn’t matter if I was hungover, tired, or whatever. For the past 8 weeks (since school started basically) I’ve been allowing myself to skip the gym repeatedly because, "I’m tired". Again, ridiculous!
I feel like I am falling apart! I wish someone could help me to be, well, myself, like I used to be. The bottom line is, I am just not motivated to do anything productive. It really is terrible, and I know I sound like a lazy fool.
If you have any words of wisdom please share.
**ALSO**I am not soliciting advice that is in any way related to God or Religion. I will delete any such responses immediately. I have lost all appreciation for Religion after 20 years as a member of a prominent faith community. I have tried that route and it didn’t work for me so PLEASE don’t tell me to ‘pray’ or anything similar.
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Maybe you don’t like law school. Maybe this will motivate you: Everyone in law school has excelled academically, much like yourself, and with a mandatory curve it is impossible for everyone to do well, so if you don’t get going you will be in some trouble come exam time. You can’t walk your way through law school, I graduated college with 3.8 gpa, and same for high school, and I didn’t really do a damn thing to get those grades. Law school will test your self motivation.
What you need to do is get on it. Set up a schedule each week, actually write it down and then stick to it. Torts reading and civ pro monday, then do it. You might just have to organize your time in a better fashion by actually managing your time. It is probably new to you as it was to me when I got to law school, I skated through everything else and never had to do much work, law school is different, you have to manage your time or you will not succeed.
October 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pmLost motivation. Think about how you could help people if you become a judge, lawyer or politician. Think, you go this scholarship for a reason, because you did good. How did you manage to do good? Find that out, and you have your answer.
October 30th, 2009 at 2:14 pmBe HAPPY that you made it to law school – try being grateful
November 1st, 2009 at 11:24 am