Butterfly fish asks for law review advice, opinions, whatevers. I'll be short and sweet because I know it's painful for you all when I try to pretend I'm a real lawyer.
In sum: Do it. Even if you don't want to. And even if you make it and don't really like it, stay with it anyway.
Because, sadly, the world is more interested in concrete markers of "achievement" like "law review" or "moot court." Even if you have really super awesome grades, if you didn't do law review, most places wonder why you didn't.
We had a packet that we picked up on the last day of exams. I think we had a week or two weeks to complete it. I was sick the first few days after exams were done, then had vacation plans, so I wrote the majority of the paper at the lake. I'm pretty sure I graded on.
Is journal useful for your career? Maybe. In our research and writing class as 1Ls, we barely learned anything. Journal was helpful to me in learning how to Bluebook and research. I was never a good writer (no surprise to anyone reading this), and I don't think journal helped me there. But I know that when I did on-campus interviewing, many of the top firms required law journal just to submit a resume. And if you're thinking about clerkships at any point in your future, a lot of the judges also require journal experience or "strongly prefer" it.
It's one of those things you can't go back and do later on (at least at my school it was a once-in-a-lawschool opportunity), so if in doubt, try out.
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