1.
See your family (for four days max)
Winter break occurs during the holiday
season, so everyone gets excited about going home for Christmas. While family
time is important, it’s VERY important to keep from being overzealous and
booking a trip home for the entire break. This will swing your family-time to
me-time ratio much too far in the wrong direction. Holidays with the family can
be stressful, and law school is stressful enough; your break should be a time
to decompress. Also, don’t let your family make you feel guilty about this,
it’s not all about them.
2.
Schedule time for yourself
See above. Have at least two days where you
get to do whatever you want.
3.
Do something mindless
The last 16 weeks has been the most
challenging intellectual endeavor you’ve likely experienced up to this point in
your life, so don’t feel guilty if you want to “dumb it down” and catch up on
reality TV by watching 16 straight hours of the Desperate Housewives of New
Jersey.
4.
But don’t get too carried away
Read something (anything). You’re going to
have to read again in only 2 short weeks, so even if it’s a gossip magazine,
it’s important to keep yourself from losing all ability to comprehend the
written word.
5.
Drink heavily
Cheers. You’ve earned it. However… please
don’t allow yourself to forget everything you learned your first semester. It’s
kind of important.
6.
Sleep, eat, and get your hygiene in order
Law school has a very tricky way of making
you feel like engaging in essential human activities is really a form of
procrastination. As a result, you may have noticed that your bathroom now
resembles the one at the rest-stop in Barstow. You may also notice that you
have lost 10 lbs. and don’t remember what it feels like to go to sleep before 3
am. Say this with me: “Sleeping, cleaning, and eating are not forms of
procrastination. I need to do these things, or I will die.”
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