What Evening Law School Is Like

I’m sitting here at my parents house on the morning of Christmas Eve, thinking about how to explain what going to law school at night. The best I can come up is that it’s like a second job - in both the time and energy required to do it well (not that I’ve gotten any grades back yet to know that I’ve done anything well):

11 credit hours. Works out to about 10.5 hours at school per week (Monday-Thursday).

15 hours of homework per week, with significant spikes for exam review and paper-writing.

12 hours of commuting per week (Nearly 3 hours each day, 4 days per week).

1.5 hours for after-class BS sessions.

= 39.5 hours/week.

I, of course, have no one to blame but myself for this. But I do really love it. And while I might not do it part-time if I had it to all over again, so far it has been quite rewarding. There are definite advantages and disadvantages when compared to a full-time program. But that’s for another post.

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