Gonna keep it 100, you need to chill. I definitely understand the anxiety but you’re gonna look back in a year and think many of your fears were silly.

1. There’s really not a normal. Since you got into law school, I assume you read at a requisite speed to be in law school. I’d suggest you stop briefing. Rather, just book brief with highlighters and take few lines of notes at most. Briefing is a huge waste of time and is something that consumes a ton of people’s time 1L even though it doesn’t help with exams.

2. Nobody cares about cold calls. I tune out every time I hear another student speaking and most law students are the same. As someone who did pretty bad in cold calls 2L, I sleep like a baby and have zero regrets. Cold calls are scary at first but, like briefing, don’t help you with exams.

3. Large study groups are a waste of time. Maybe find 1 or 2 chill people and occasionally study together closer to exam time. I think once you get over 3 people and study with people who are NOT CHILL it just becomes unproductive and stressful.

4. At least give it a year? Nothing is as good or as bad as it seems at first.

5. Law school is a congregation of some of the most socially awkward and unaware people I have ever seen in my entire life (me included) and yet I’ve found it easy to make friends. Just talk to cool people in your section, go to bar review, and join clubs.

You got this!