Ok, I'll be honest. You could grab about 10 random law grads, and I'm willing to bet that each would have strong feelings about the answer to this blog's topic. I'm going to let you in on a little secret... "you" being the 1L: none of you know what you are doing. This is completely acceptable! It's just that 1L paranoia begins to set in rather rapidly as you begin law school, and you--along with the rest of your colleagues--will all pretend (consciously or not) that you DO know what you're doing. This fact relates to study groups in a very poignant way: namely, a bunch of people who don't know what they're talking about getting together and putting forth their ideas does not appear helpful at the outset as a means of study. You'll here over and over as a 1L that by the time you reach your third year of law school, you just "get it." This is really true. And it becomes both laughable and painful to study next to a bunch of 1L...
Beyond the "whats" of law school and law practice more generally, here, the "hows" are explained, whether you need them during law school or many years thereafter.