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In my mid – increasingly late – twenties, I'm coming to the law as a second career and returning to the student life I thought I’d long since left behind. As I embark on the path to (hopefully) becoming a trainee solicitor, I’ll be taking you through my experiences of the GDL at BPP in London: the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles. Welcome to the blog!
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What to choose, what to choose? Life is full of decisions, and right now the decisions weighing heaviest on my mind are which topics to revise for my exams in two weeks.
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It has been playing on my mind recently that a ‘revision break’ should probably involve a period of actual revision.
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A coursework deadline is only a few days away.
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In all the commotion of the closing stages of the GDL (final weeks of classes, coursework deadlines rushing up), I had almost forgotten about the other course I’m supposed to be starting next year.
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How many of you have read a case report in its entirety? That was the question posed to us in one of our lectures recently. Most of the students in the room raised a hand, but a non-negligible minority demurred.
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The first buds of exam season have bloomed at BPP: a little crocus to presage the stressful springtime to come.
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There are two things that loom particularly large in the minds of people studying the GDL: exams and jobs.
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For GDL students, the news can provide an interesting insight into what we can expect in our future careers.
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Father Christmas has brought his best gift early: a few weeks’ holiday from law school.
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In my last post I summed up some early conclusions about a few of the subjects covered on the conversion course. Now it’s the turn of the more public-minded areas, filled with directives, death and…er…Dicey.
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It’s just past the halfway point of the first term of the conversion course, and opinions about the subjects we’re studying are starting to solidify.
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Rarely has a reading week been so gratefully received. Only halfway through the first term of the law conversion course, the relief at getting a chance to hit the pause button and breathe was palpable among the students.
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A few weeks into the conversion course and a question I remember from my undergraduate days has started to resurface: is it worth attending lectures?
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“You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone,” sang Joni Mitchell some decades ago.
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It has begun. Hundreds of new GDL students have descended onto BPP's Waterloo campus like a swarm of migratory butterflies – probably just as fragile, too, although only a few will have been as showy.
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