what it is to study law

To do the work is not to do the classes.  There is much more.  One must immerse oneself in the law-eat law, talk law (this becomes obnoxious to those not in law classes), spend all your time focusing on the law.  No time to pay bills, call friends and family, clean house, every day life.  I wish I could immerse myself in the law, but life intervenes.