harsh as it may sound, law school has become easier if you shut out everyone else. like your family and friends. its really hard to keep juggling and allocating time. if you just focus on law school and to hell with everything else, then law school wont be as stressful. but thats living like adam sandler in Click. giving too much attention to work and the next thing he knows, he's old and dying and no idea what happened to his relationship with his family. i mean, the life of a lawyer is a lonely one and the life of a law student is a wretched life. why not get used to it and live that life? i mean, thats not really incompatible with the kind of life i have. just think of law school and to hell with everything else. i havent reached that kind of life but im heading there and getting near. this sem, ive spent a lot of time alone (this is the most "alone" that ive been in years). not sure if it helped or its been effective in raising my grades but so far, i dont mind living such a life (again). the more i keep this up, the more i will be like my highschool self, detached from everyone else. only this time, my head shouldnt be up in the clouds, it should be focused on what im supposed to do. and on that part, im still a bit far from the target. i need to make my mind sharper and my memory and retention better.