NATIONAL JURIST — When you’re in law school, struggling to get by on a part-time job while purchasing textbooks that often cost at least $300 each, every dollar counts. While law school might seem like the place to go “all out” financially, you’re basically shooting yourself in the foot long-term: there’s nothing worse than getting your first “adult” job and being unable to treat yourself because you are too focused paying off the credit card you used during law school with 21% interest. Not that I know that from experience or anything… Below are four things I wasted my money on in law school, and like they say: caveat emptor.