[MysticCat]

Ditto almost everything that has been said.

I would add two other comments:

First, I would avoid majoring in pre-law or the like. Majoring in pre-law does nothing but prepare you for law school, and in my experience and from my conversations with law school administrators, law schools consider pre-law majors a dime a dozen. Besides, law schools want to be the ones to teach you about the law. Major in something you really enjoy (which will likely yield better grades with less stress) and that will give you something to fall back on if law school doesn't pan out or if you decide against it. It may also provide some student body diversity that law school admissions people are looking for. (I had quite a few tell me that my major in music was considered a big plus for me.)

Second, learn how not to be "the kind of person who freaks out easily about the near and up and coming future." Seriously! If you don't, law school and practicing law will be unbearable.

And one other thing -- drop the word "retarded" from your vocabulary. It doesn't impress.