I went to my second California Club summer event yesterday. The returning students were unanimous in recommending that we "pre-Ls" not work too hard. "You're going to look around and see that everyone is killing themselves with work, and you'll think that you should kill yourself too. Don't do it!" Everyone agreed that grades didn't correlate well with effort, and they all swore they did much less work second semester. "There are only going to be like two As per class per section," advised one student, "and you won't get one unless you're really brilliant AND you work pretty much all the time." The others nodded in agreement. Just stay caught up, they told me, and study before finals and you'll be fine.
And you know what, that all sounds like good advice. I have no intention of killing myself with work. I was glad to hear people advise against it. Now, maybe that's just the kind of person my state produces, but I think I'd be sort of fine with that.
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