Reflecting on 2L
Long time, no see! (Write? Blog? Who knows.) My 2L year wrapped up at the end of May, and I took a bit of a mental health break up until now to give myself a breather and focus on training for my summer internship. But, I'm back and here to stay! 2L is a whole different beast from 1L. I wouldn't say law school gets easier during your second year. It's still difficult, and I honestly felt more stressed out during 2L than during 1L. But it's important to realize that it's not law school that changes once you're a 2L--it's you that changed (cheesy, I know). You're more equipped to handle what law school throws at you and you know how to handle all the information thrown at you during class. For example, I was able to raise my GPA by over 0.6 points over the course of 2L because I had figured out what worked for me and how I best learned the material (plus there wasn't a pass/fail requirement unlike the spring semester of my 1L year). Like the end o