3L Burnout Forum

[r973]

My 3L year has so far been harder and more work than 1L year. I am sure my GPA will go down and suck this semester. I attribute this mostly to burning out, getting tired of law school, exams, and bad professors. Also, I have lost a lot of my motivation to do well because I had a great 2L year, yet got NO JOB OFFERS. So after all the hard work in 2L, I feel like it wasn't worth it.

How is your 3L year been going for you?

[nealric]

Didn't burn out 3L year. My post 3L LLM semester has been SERIOUS burnout zone.

[NYU2011]

Completely burnt out. Luckily next semester I'm only taking seminars with no finals. Can't wait.

[GummiBear]

I understand exactly where you are coming from r9

I spent the first 2 years of law school working my ass off making dean's list and everything... but I feel like I did it all for nothing and I'm pretty much skipping like a third of my classes.

I'm almost at the point where I don't even care if I get the degree

[Jordan77]

I knew I would probably get a little burnt out... so I tried to counter that by taking more exciting classes (e.g., externship with a Judge and a clinic). It worked out wonderfully and kept me very interested and I did not burn out.

[edcrane]

Burned out. Really tough to muster enough will power to do anything. Thankfully I planned on having a really light 1st semester, so hopefully I'll survive.

[XxSpyKEx]

Shit, I burned out 2nd semester of 2L. Very hard to take much of anything seriously at this point.

[steve_nash]

I voted no. I dunno, I've always liked law school.

[MTal]

If it's any help, misery loves company. The vast majority of TLS will be where you are right now in a few years.