Networking

I'm trying to learn how to network. I'm making lunch dates with contacts I've made through career fairs and trying to reach out to new people. I'm really struggling with it though. It feels foreign and forced. When you get to law school, you think, if I just work really hard, I'll get somewhere based on my merit. Once you're there, you realize it really is who you know - or, at the very least, how you come off when you meet them.