1L Life Hack

First Set of Law School Grades

You all are probably listening to your friends discuss how great (or terrible) first semester grades were. You all probably are noticing that your class sizes have certain people missing.Your fall semester grades may have made you feel far from the superior student that you are, here are some tips and words of encouragement for the rest of the semester!

• You are the same student that you were before grades were posted! Your grades haven’t changed how intelligent or how capable you are; don’t let them change how you see yourself. 

• The important thing is not what your grades WERE but how you respond! Whether your grades were what you had hoped them to be or not, go and talk to your first semester professors and figure out what it is you did well, where you can improve, and what this whole grading game is about. 

Every lawyer will struggle with an assignment, not understand what is needed, and even experience failure. That’s part of the job, but it can also become the secret to your success.