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.
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Seven 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.
Continue readingCindoughrella and the 1L Survival Strategy
At the beginning of this semester, right around the time reading assignments started multiplying and summer job interviews were happening almost every day, I made a somewhat questionable decision.
I decided to start a sourdough starter.
Continue readingFrom Duels to Gorillas: Weirdest Laws of Massachusetts
As a state with one of the longest and most storied histories in our country, Massachusetts is no stranger to quirky and arcane laws. These laws may derive from Puritan norms of the 17th century or may come from more recent irrational worries. While I found myself extremely disappointed that some of these are more urban legends than past or present reality, I will be running through a few of my favorites regardless of their origin.
Continue readingYour (Unofficial) Guide to St. Paddy’s Day Weekend in Boston
Yes, it’s Saint Paddy’s — not Patty’s.
I’ve somehow managed to write about something law-related in every article I’ve contributed to this blog so far. Today, however, I’m choosing joy. Coming off of spring break and realizing that morale is still… let’s call it… fragile in Crim Law, I think it’s time we talk about something more exciting than case briefs and writing competition materials.
Continue readingIs Law School the Ultimate Endurance Test?
I recently received a call from a recruiter with the Marines assessing my interest and eligibility for their law student program. After candidly informing the recruiter that I have never done a single pull-up in my entire life (this was in response to a question; I would not have offered this information unprompted), he asked me how fast I could run three miles. The answer is that I would never voluntarily put myself in a situation that requires running three consecutive miles.
Continue readingOpening Doors with Alumni: Meet Joshua Williams
There are numerous roads to law school, and no one-size fits all path to a successful legal career. Follow along with our series highlighting BC Law students and how they got here!
Previous entries: Sara Womble (Winston Salem, NC); Elias Massion (Nashville, TN); Samina Gagné (London);Alvin Synarong (Murfreesboro, Tennessee); Ruchita Jain (Edina, Minnesota); Nicole Bauer (Michigan);Carlos Robles-Cruz (Puerto Rico); Taha Din (Naperville, IL); Timothy St. Pierre (Brunswick, Maine); Tobias Wilcken Jørgensen LLM ’25 (Denmark); Leena Assad (Dracut, MA).
Name: Joshua Williams
Hometown: Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands
Educational Background: Bachelor’s degree in marketing from Saint Leo University in 2020; master’s degree in management from Harvard University in 2022
From Hurricane to Holiday: The Surprising Origin of Spring Break
Long before anyone was booking flights to Cancún, the building blocks of spring break were quietly assembling in American college culture. Since the 19th century, well-to-do students have escaped their academic duties by fleeing to states with the nearest coastline. The advent of the car, higher education opportunities for women, and widespread availability of alcohol all fused together into the nationwide phenomenon of the co-ed road trip. With all of these factors settled, the only question left was where to meet up.
Continue readingAssigning Law School Classes a Taylor Swift Song
As we approach Spring Break, I am definitely coming out of the school mood, and this article is no different. I’m a huge Taylor Swift fan, so I thought it would be fun to give law school classes their Taylor song. Of course I thought of multiple songs for each class, but I landed on the ones I thought made the most sense.
Continue readingA Procrastinator’s Guide to Spring Break Ideas
So…It’s February. You’ve lifted your head from the fugue state of OCI/getting adjusted to your classes/digging your car out of a snow pile/writing your law review note, and set hopeful eyes on spring break as an opportunity for rest and recuperation when you realize—you never made any spring break plans.
Or, you’ve looked at your bank account, thought “yikes!” and decided to have a bit of a stay-cation, but have no plans on how to actually go about doing that. Fair! Reasonable! I have been there!
In the interest of transparency, I personally will be fleeing the great city of Boston at the first available opportunity (shoutout to the Amtrak!), however, I’ve compiled three fun (low cost) things to do with the tons of free time you will have on your hands come spring break. (That is, once you’ve caught up on your reading, done the write-on, decided how early you want to outline, remembered to go grocery shopping, etc. etc.).
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BC Law: Impact 