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If you are keen on surviving law school but still undecided on what to make of your nightlife, here are a few tips from Laws and Found Blog to make that decision for you less painful. First things first, I guarantee you an abundance of (over)night kind of life for the next four or five years, and a you get to spend with books!
1. Find a middle ground
If you cannot give up the 'partying 'til the sun comes up' kind of life, you may opt to reduce the frequency to say once a month or once every two months. Don't worry dear, the receptionist at your favorite club, or bar won't forget you despite the absence. See, now you will have a different level of nightlife, one spend in complete silence as you pore over them codals, cases and voluminous books.
2. Seriously, you will benefit from not spending a night out.
It's a win-win situation. Your weekends well be less stress-inducing, you get to have a good night's sleep to prepare you for the arduous week ahead. I've been there, trust me. Dancing the night away in clubs is fun while it lasts but after it is quite torture on the feet, on your head and everything else, unless you count dancing as your cardio.
3. Save a lot of moolahs.
Sure, fun and happiness are supposed to not cost you your law school education fund but admit it, going out every weekend can put a drain on your pocket. You have to buy killer dresses. I have to buy lots of party dresses, I for the life of me, cannot imagine wearing the same outfit to the same club. For me that was like a big sin, like committing a felony under the Revised Penal Code. Then drinks in those clubs are not cheap honey, unless you look like a supermodel and get free drinks, then you better stick to icedtea or water if you don't want to spend the moolah in those night outs.
4. Preserve your life or limb.
Spending nights in the parking lot is not the safest way to roll. Well, it is part partying like a commoner, unless you are Paris Hilton and have a chauffeur to wait on you, there will be nights when staying in the parking lot until it's light will be part of the deal. You cannot risk violating our law on drunk driving, it is akin to signing your own death certificate.
5. Save a night, save the day after.
For each night you spend hanging out in a club or drinking in a bar, you might as well say goodbye to the day after that. You see, when you go out, most probably you get a hangover and then you need to sleep the day after. This is precious time you could spend instead in reading.
I haven't been out for almost four months now. Before this period I used to be in party mode as early as Friday morning. Now it's like, "Wuhoo it's Friday, almost weekend, bed here I come!"
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