Law School: What does it feel like to be a below-average law student?

Being a below average law student can be tough. Your peers are often among the brightest most social occasions while after involving heaps of alcohol tend to focus around academics and what grades people are getting etc. 
in addition once you fall back it's really hard to fight your way back in to the 70-80% ranges because 
A) you simply lack the motivation 
B) assuming you somehow work up the motivation you find it very hard to catch up as most subjects are split into parts A & B with the latter assuming knowledge from the former. 
Being a below avg law student is also harmful in the extra curricular sense as many will not invite you to join mooting teams or opt to include you in things like note exchange sessions. (This is also to some degree dependent on your social skills but peers often figure out that you have nothing to offer and given the schools competitive nature will tend to drop you) 
Finally being a below avg law student will see you losing a passion for the subject and often relying on some of your closest friends taking pity and lending you their exam notes which you will rote learn given the lack of understanding and simply regurgitate it in an effort to pass. 
This being said it is still possible to come from behind to up your average but it would require a phenomenal amount of effort in your holidays catching up and then trying to read ahead just so you can get back in the flow of things.
Additionally, It might depend on what law school you’re below average at.

I was a below average student (and eventually graduated “in that half of the class which makes the top half possible”) at a school which, then and now, is considered one of the top 14 law schools in the US, and pretty much what I (and others in my position) felt was explained by one of the upperclassmen who shepherded us around orientation before our first semester of our 1L year: “You guys have it made, even if you graduate in the middle of the class—hell, even if you graduate in the bottom of the class. You’ll be a graduate of [redacted]* University Law School; you’re already in the top 5-10% of all law students in the country.”

Basically, we felt sorry for the students who were below average at all those lesser schools, who’d have a harder time getting a well-paid job than we would.

(As it turned out, I took a lesser-paying job—I became a judge advocate in the U.S. Navy—because I wanted it, but at least my T14 law degree made it much easier for me to make the cut to becoming a Navy JAGC officer than if I’d been a student at a lesser school.)

*Name of law school redacted because, as I’ve mentioned in some of my other answers here, I hate the place with all the passion of a billion burning stars, and I never want my name publicly associated with it again as long as I live. And longer than that, if possible.