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I DON’T WANT TAYLOR SWIFT TO TAKE DANCING CLASSES! I WANT HER TO STILL DANCE LIKE THIS. YOU FEEL ME? SHE. CANNOT. DO. THIS.

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I can't think of a snappy law school caption, but I feel like this belongs on my blog. Any takers?

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Procrastination is not typically a function of laziness, apathy or work ethic as it is often regarded to be. It’s a neurotic self-defense behavior that develops to protect a person’s sense of self-worth. You see, procrastinators tend to be people who have, for whatever reason, developed to perceive an unusually strong association between their performance and their value as a person. This makes failure or criticism disproportionately painful, which leads naturally to hesitancy when it comes to the prospect of doing anything that reflects their ability — which is pretty much everything… Because it is rewarding on the short term, procrastination eventually takes on the form of an addiction to the temporary relief from these deep-rooted fears. Procrastinators get an extremely gratifying “hit” whenever they decide to let themselves off the hook for the rest of the day, only to wake up to a more tightly squeezed day with even less confidence. Once a pattern of procrastination is established, it can be perpetuated for reasons other than the fear of failure. For example, if you know you have a track record of taking weeks to finally do something that might only take two hours if you weren’t averse to it, you begin to see every non-simple task as a potentially endless struggle. So a modest list of 10-12 medium-complexity to-do’s might represent to you an insurmountable amount of work, so it feels hopeless just to start one little part of one task. This hones a hair-trigger overwhelm response, and life gets really difficult really easily.

http://www.raptitude.com/2011/05/procrastination-is-not-laziness/ (via codenamecesare)

Gotta reblog this again cause it’s painfully relevant to my life

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Yes, I'd love to work in international law. No, I'm not naive, 'cute' or stupid.

This is something I’ve been thinking about a fair bit over the last couple of days. As I’m getting older, I’m not as scared about what other people think of me. This is why, to a large extent, I’ve stopped going to great lengths to hide what my true career ambitions are.

I want to work in international human rights law.

To most people this sounds pretty funny. Whenever I say something like this, it tends to elicit responses that are condescending or sarcastic. Sometimes I get polite responses, but they are insincere and make me feel like the person I’m talking to doesn’t think I’ll be able to “make it."

Careers in international law are tough to come by, I know. I’m also painfully aware of my weaknesses and limitations. I’m not a brilliant or gifted student; I don’t have large amounts of money to spare that will help me to go overseas and do an internship; I haven’t been an exchange student and I don’t speak a second language fluently (yet).

What I do have though, is an insurmountable level of passion and perseverance. I have excelled at international human rights law and its related international subjects; I have networked and made contacts internationally which include people working with the United Nations, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Amnesty International (International Secretariat - Legal); I’m doing an honours thesis in international criminal law; I competed in the world’s most prestigious international law mooting competition (receiving two awards in the process) and I have a helluva lot of determination.

I am not saying I’m going to be the next UN Secretary General or the future Prosecutor of the ICC. Yet, people often fail to realise how many opportunities actually do exist. I might not end up as a high-flying international lawyer, but if I work hard enough I could be very happy doing international work with a government department or agency, working for an international NGO or maybe I could end up an academic teaching and researching international law? Who knows. What I do know is that the worst possible thing I could do is to do nothing at all and not follow these aspirations because it’s “too hard."

If I aim really high and fall a bit short of the ideal, I’ll be a much happier person than if I stay put and settle for something that’s simply easy or convenient.

So when I meet a first year student who dreams of working in international human rights, I’m not going to be condescending or patronising and tell them that they’re being ‘cute’ and giggle at their supposed naivety. Instead, I will make every effort to be supportive and encouraging and share whatever little insights I’ve gathered along the way. Other law students should do the same and not put people down for being idealists.

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This makes me so happy! :)

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That time when Raven actually said what most of us want to say to a teacher who picks you for the answer when you clearly don’t know it, for usually no other reason than to embarrass you and make you look stupid. One of the main things I hate and always will hate about school.

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Reasons why you should do Thing ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ

1. Every hour you spend doing Thing right now is an extra hour you will get to sleep. (◡‿◡✿)

2. Every hour you spend doing Thing right now is an extra hour you will get to read or talk with friends or watch that new episode of your favourite TV show or do something else you really love doing. ヽ(‘ ∇‘ )ノ

3. You will have to do Thing eventually whether you like it or not! Face Thing head-on and get it over with. You will look back and say to yourself, wow, I am so glad I did Thing three hours ago. ∩( ・ω・)∩

4. You will spend the same amount of time doing Thing whether you do Thing now or at 4am. You might as well get Thing done earlier! ≧(´▽｀)≦

5. Every time you do not do Thing or do Thing really late when you’re tired and cranky and stressed out you feel like crap about yourself. If you do Thing now, you can avoid that stress and crankiness. Future you will be happy! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°

6. It is midnight in a scary house and all of a sudden you see Thing! It is huge and scary and it has lots of teeth and you want to run away and hide. But then Thing meows and you realize that Thing was just a little kitty cat and you were seeing its shadow reflected on the wall. You should not dread doing Thing because your mind has made it seem a lot bigger and scarier than it actually is. Once you start working on Thing, you will realize how silly it is to make huge scary monsters out of kitty cats! ヽ(‘ ∇‘ )ノ

7. Do not curl up into a ball and think about how horrible you are for not getting Thing done earlier! You are not alone. We all do it! We all procrastinate and avoid doing Thing. It is alright. For now, try to numb yourself and just focus on doing Thing. It will be okay. (*´・ｖ・)

8. Stop every half hour and remind yourself of all the reasons why you should not procrastinate and do Thing earlier. I promise you that you will be able to gather the courage to do Thing. Good luck! (´ω｀★)

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When my classmates start to pull out their notes after an exam to check their answers and lament over every single thing they did wrong...

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One last Civil Procedure reference to mark the end of semester. Done!

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This kid has been staring at a picture of broccoli for about 15 minutes now

He keeps zooming in and out and looking over every branch

Finals week has really taken a lot out of some people

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As both a Buddhist and a lawyer do you ever find yourself in a situation where you must “use false speech”?

Anonymous

Well Jim Carrey movies notwithstanding an attorney is one job where you can lose your license and even go to jail for lying. We take an oath not to lie. Moreover, lying is a poor legal strategy because if your lie is discovered, and it will be, then everything else you or your client says from that point on will be disbelieved. This is not to say that there are not unscrupulous lawyers just as there are unscrupulous doctors, vacuum cleaner salesmen and scientists. They just aren’t very good lawyers.

Sam.

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Try. One step at a time is easy. Energy flows from earnestness.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Some study-desk porn. C'mon lawblrs, you know you love it.

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look at the stars

look how they shine for you

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I need to whole-ass this home stretch until assessment.

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My brother saved this document and everytime he gets angry at our neighbours for being loud he prints it to their wireless printer and you can hear the wife shout “Why the fuck would you print this AGAIN?!” to her son.