I learned a lot running the BC Law 5k last spring. I learned a lot during my 1L year. What I did not expect was how my 2L year and my ongoing 5k training would mirror each other. Last year, I simply celebrated finishing the 5k. Everyone tells you “you just need to finish 1L.” 2L is a new task. Not just finish, but improve and develop.
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So You’re Moving to BC Law? Read This First!
Hi future Legal Eagles,
I’m so excited you decided to join us this Fall. BC Law has truly been the best decision I’ve ever made (so far), and I’m sure many of you will share my sentiments.
But let’s talk logistics.
Continue readingA Letter to My 1L Self
Before you ask, yes. I am still technically a 1L, which makes writing something like this feel a little premature. But as the semester starts to wind down (26 days left but who’s counting, right?), I have found myself reflecting more than I expected.
Continue readingFor Veterans, Community is Everything: Finding a Home at BC Law
Today’s guest post was written by 3L Joshua Little.
When people sign up for the military, they’re signing up for two major life changes. The first one is obvious: you’re joining the military and leaving everything behind. The second one is a later realization: you are leaving the military and leaving everything behind… again. Most advice you receive focuses on practical considerations, like finding a job or going back to school. Those matter, but they miss something deeper. Leaving the military is not just a career change. It is the loss of a community that shaped every part of your life.
Continue readingThe Perfect Law School Path is a Myth
I recently suffered a humbling yet not entirely undignified loss in my section’s March Madness challenge. Armed with a few hot takes I sourced from random articles that were among the first ten results on Google, I made what turned out to be a semi-decent bracket for someone with minimal knowledge of college basketball. In fact, for a brief period before my bracket imploded, I was #1 on the leaderboard and had people—baselessly, I might add—trying to claim equity in my picks, arguing that they told me what to choose (they didn’t).
Continue readingMy Solution to Writer’s Block: A Sense of Wonder
I feel I have exhausted all I had to say about the first two years of law school (you’d understand if you have ever read one of my posts). When I asked my boyfriend what to write about, he told me to write about writer’s block. I asked, “do lawyers even get writer’s block?” and he told me that it could be a good topic for anyone struggling to finish a memo, a law review article, and anything else law students are expected to write. I have been wondering if the problem isn’t that I don’t know what to write, but that I don’t know how to write it.
Continue readingELS heads to Salem for Winter Weekend
On March 28, the Environmental Law Society hosted the ELS Winter Weekend. Postponed due to a snowstorm in January, the Winter Weekend looked slightly different than in previous years—namely, rather than taking place in Provincetown, this year’s weekend brought BC Law students to Salem.
Continue readingBoston’s Best Running Routes
When it comes to running cities, Boston is one of the best you’ll find in the United States. Most people know it for the Boston Marathon, which attracts thousands of celebrated marathoners from around the world every April, but what makes the city a regular runner’s dream is the fact that it has so many varied and lengthy running routes for everyone to enjoy, from the weekend warriors to the elite-level athletes. Over the past 18 months, I have tried to explore as many of these routes as the weather and my body’s limitations would allow. Having gained all that experience, I want to share my five favorites for any BC Law student—or anyone else who stumbles upon this post—to use as a guide for their own running adventures.
Continue readingFeeling Unproductive? Try Catching a Breath of Fresh Air!
During my 1L spring semester, an email advertising Academic Success Program Director Nina Farber’s Productivity Labs caught my attention. Thinking to myself, “who wouldn’t want to be more productive,” I filled out the sheet and awaited the results. Thankfully, I was accepted, and over the course of the next few weeks, I met once a week with Nina, alongside several other students, learning strategies catered towards studying, meditating, and test taking. One lesson of the program that has remained in my arsenal of tactics against unproductivity is breathing, particularly breathwork.
Continue readingSeven Miles, Four Left Turns, and One Very Bad Idea
Over Fall Break this past October, I went for my first outdoor run in Randolph.
It was also the first time in my life that I ended up on crutches.
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BC Law: Impact 