If you're wondering what to buy for your Law school or your university,
and you don't really know what to buy, and what you actually need,
this is the video for you *all stationary items linked in the description box*. Of course,
this list of items that I'm going to be laying out to you, it's definitely personal, and these
are the things that I've definitely used to the tea in the past three-four years on my Law school,
so if you think that some of the things that are too expensive for you, or you can't afford them,
or you think that you don't necessarily need them, please do keep watching this video with a pinch
of salt, and don't take it too seriously, but I believe that, all these items that I've laid out
for you are not too expensive, except the first item, but other than that, everything else is very
cheap, very accommodating to your own expenses, because we all know that "we're all broke",
so I believe that these are the things that will definitely not bring the bank,
and they're very worth the price, and worth the money as well. The first Law school essential is
definitely a laptop, and this can be any kind of laptop that you might want to buy, but personally,
I really love my own MacBook Air that I'm using right now to actually record this video,
and it's really really good because, whenever you're doing your tutorial work, you will need a
software, you'll need a means to actually edit the work, because sometimes, what you will
understand that you will find out that sometimes in your tutorial work, you might actually have
to or, actually add the teacher's comments', or teachers' response to a certain question,
and usually when you do a handwritten, in that way, you have to actually scrape out, or scratch
out, or delete out certain things, and that makes the notes look very messy, so in those kind of
situations, I believe that having a laptop is very very essential because in that way, it's very easy
for you to delete stuff and edit stuff and add new things, at the same time, so I highly recommend
for you to get a laptop for sure for Law school, and these are the top three things you definitely
need in your MacBook, or whatever laptop that you might be using. Number one is Microsoft Word,
Microsoft OneNote as well as Microsoft Excel because these three things are really important,
and I will show you in my future videos how to use this three software very differently
in their own ways for Law school, but hopefully, this is the first thing that you should definitely
need for Law school. The next essential that you definitely need is some stationery items from the
store Wilkinson. Now Wilkinson is my favorite shop in terms of stationery items that I have to buy
in terms of my school, or college, or even university, and even doing my Master's right now,
Wilkinson has been that shop that has been really really helpful for buying cheap,
good quality stationery items, and the first thing that I recommend for you to get from Wilkinson
is definitely their exercise books, which are amazing, and they are very soft and very tender,
and they're very easy to write on, and they're also equally very cheap, and if you're a student
looking for good exercise books, definitely get it from Wilkinson. Number three item is from,
or the second item from Wilkinson is definitely their binders. The binders I've been using,
some of them for the past five-six years, and they're still going very strong and considering
that they're only like £1-£2, it's really commendable and I believe that every student
should get their binders, and as well as their arch files, which is my third item that you should
be getting from Wilkinson as well because in that way, you're giving yourself and the whole reason
why you should get an arch file is that...let's say you have finished your first term, you can
pull all the first term notes and organize those in one arch file, and you can keep reusing those
binders that you've already used in the first term, and this is what I've always done in my
past three-four years on my Law school, and it has definitely helped me to keep myself organized. My
notes and my past papers are organized and everything in between, so I highly recommend
for you to get these three items from Wilkinson in terms of stationery-wise. So, the first one is the
Wilkinson exercise books, which are very cheap and good; number two is the Wilkinson binders,
which are very helpful for organizing your modules, and each individual module in Law school,
and number three is your Wilkinson arch files, which are there for you to collect all the notes
from term one and put them in one side, instead of just re-key buying the new binders for the second
term if you know what I mean. The next thing that I highly recommend for you to get for Law school
is definitely your Stabilo Pastel highlighters, and you might be thinking why not the neon one,
because I believe the neon ones are actually so dark in terms of the fact that they are too
bright for my own liking, so if you're somebody who really likes pastel colors,
I think the Stabilo highlighters are really really good, and these are actually recommended by one
certain YouTuber that I watched about two or three years ago, but I can't really remember her name,
but she definitely recommended this Stabilo pastel highlighters because it looks so good,
and every time you're actually highlighting your work, it makes it look really nice and posh,
although that's not the most important thing in Law school in terms of when you're writing your
notes, but I believe that, having Stabilo pastel highlighters is very very important, and you don't
necessarily have to get the Stabilo ones, but I believe they're the most cheap ones that I found
that are really good quality at the same time, so Stabilo highlighters are very important in
terms of highlighting your work in your book, your exercise book, your own notes, the past papers,
whatever there might be, highlighters are definitely an essential for Law school.
The next item that you definitely need in terms of Law school is your pens, and I believe the black
pen is like the standard that everyone should have, and the specific brand that I really really
love is actually from my own back home country Bangladesh, and it is called Matador pens,
and I've actually used these when I was in my second year of Law school for my exams as well
as in my third year Law school because I was doing the handwritten exam and exams, and that was a
really really good pen because it was very smooth, very soft, and it does not even leak on the other
side of the page, or when you turn the page, it does not really leak. So, I believe that having
these Matador pens are really good, but of course, buy something that you're really comfortable with
again because you don't want to buy something that I'm recommending and you're not really comfortable
with, or you've never seen before, so you might not know how it works, but I believe that,
since I have actually tried a lot of pens before in my life, I know that mushroom pens are the best
ones in terms of writing your notes, especially in lecture time when you might be given only a
few things to write here and there, and that pen is really comfortable for you to write on,
and write the additional notes, so I highly recommend for you to purchase the Matador pens.
The next essential thing that you definitely need is a bullet journal, or any kind of planner that
you might be using to write your to-do list, your spreads, your monthly spreads, your weekly
spreads, your daily to-do list, whatever that might be, you need something that you are using
to make sure that you are tracking yourself of the things that you have to do during the day,
and for me, there's definitely a bullet journal, and as someone who has used both the planner,
the academic planners that you get for one whole set year, and then you have a bullet journal,
and then you have the online calendar blocking kind of things, I believe that the best one is
definitely bullet journal because first of all, you can do whatever you like with it, there is no
certain layout that you have to follow, or you do not have to pressurize and commit yourself.
Number two is that you can use a bullet journal for over a long period of time, for example,
I've used my bullet journal certain cases for over three years, and has still worked out, and
I've been still using that, and as a student, you want to keep your expenses as minimum as possible,
so having a bullet journal is really really good for that. Number three is that you can
actually customize however you like it. If you like colorful things, you can add color to it,
if you like black and white like I am right now, that's also really good for that as well. Having a
bullet journal, or any kind of academic planner, or any kind of thing that you're using to write
your to-do list, is very very important in Law school. The next purchase that you definitely have
to make is a good USB, and I have two different you know types of USBs that I actually use.
The first one is like those big ones, so we can actually keep too many things, and I don't know
what they're called but, I like to call them the "Big USB: and in there, you can actually save your
work whatever that might be, you can save your pictures, your documents from the past 10 years,
and it's still like not full. So having a big USB is very very important in terms of saving
your work especially after finishing your essay that you have to submit for the next few days,
but you don't want to have the risk of actually...you know...what if the
computer breaks down, or your software doesn't work, what are you going to do then? So it's very
important to save your work on a USB, and you can purchase definitely the big one, or the small one,
it doesn't really matter, but as long as you have a USB next to you, it is fine and it is
very very important, and I highly recommend to buy a one that has at least 64... I don't even know,
I'm not really good at saying anything like that, but have a USB where you can actually save your
work, and it's not and you're not fully dependent on your laptop in terms of that. The last thing
that I definitely recommend for you to purchase is your own pocket wallets. Now, if you're somebody
who has planned that you want to buy binders and all those kinds of things, then definitely
make sure that you are purchasing pocket wallets, especially because you want to keep your notes,
some of them are very important, and some of them might not be very accessible to you,
so whenever you get them, you have to keep them very carefully pocket wallets. These are made for
that kind of situation. It is really really helpful because then you can save your work
and you don't risk you know...if let's say, water leaks in your bag, you know that pocket
wallet will protect your notes in that way, the whole purpose of a pocket wallet I would say,
so having a couple of them in each of the binders of your core modules is very important because
then your notes are going to be protected, and also you can carry them uh whatever you like,
you don't have to carry the whole binder to Law school every single time when you have a tutorial,
or you have a lecture. So, you can just keep those important notes inside those pocket wallets,
so that your bag also will feel really light and that's what I've always done
in my Law school years, so I highly recommend for you purchase some pocket wallets as well.
This brings me to the end of today's video. I hope you really enjoyed this video on all the things
that you actually need in Law school, and I don't want you to overbuy, but at the same time under
buy as well, so I hopefully think that this list will definitely help you because these are the
some of the things that I have used from the past three years in my Law school, and I've used every
single one of these things. It's not that I've not used anything out of this list, and anything
is missing out, so I highly recommend for you to really re-watch this video, make notes and write
down all the things that you actually need for Law school because this would definitely help you and
make your life much easier in Law school, which is very hectic busy and too much reading to do.
Other than that, please do keep an eye on the videos that I'm going to be uploading in the next
few weeks, which are all related to Law school, and how to prepare, and everything like that,
but other than that, I'll see you in my next week's video.