Juggling a Full-time Job with Part-time Grad School
The majority of students in Master’s programs attend school part time, and many of those students also hold down full-time jobs at the same time. How do they do it? Here are some tips from current graduate students on how to balance a full-time job and part-time classes.
Make sure your boss is supportive
Take it from Lyn Huckabee who says she “had to leave my original job because of conflicts with school.” The Suffolk University Law student now works for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts during the day. She says her current position “is much more relaxed about long hours and the su...
How to Juggle Graduate School, a Career and a Family
Find out how to plan your graduate studies around your busy schedule.
By Merrissa Saunders
Graduate school is hard enough as it is. When you add in a career and family into the mix, it can seem impossible to manage. But, it’s not.
There are many successful graduate students that have families at home, and careers they have been working at for some time.
The key to maintaining this balance is to have great time management skills and complete organization. You will need these tools for graduate school anyways, but as a parent or employee you have many more responsibilities to take ...
Life After Dating: Loving A Grad Student Without Going Insane
Camille Guillot
“Be prepared for a breakup about three weeks from now.” That was the relationship advice I got from a girl in her second year of my boyfriend’s graduate program, just before he started the first semester of his MFA in creative writing.
She had reason to be cynical: grad school means a convoluted class schedule, loads of coursework, very little money, and a whole new social circle of other grad students–and none of those things are awesome for an existing relationship. During her first semester, there had been a rash of breakups as everyone adjusted to the demands ...
How to Plan Your Medical School Application Timeline
You might think that applying to medical school is pretty much the same as applying to college. Sure, the basic idea is the same, but the process can actually be much more complicated. That’s why it’s a good idea to start by setting up a medical school application timeline so you hit all the right points at just the right time.
While there is no wrong time in your life to go to med school, that doesn’t mean there’s not a best time of the year to apply.
When is it too late to take the MCAT?
Ideally, you should have your MCAT score in hand by the time you’re filling out your m...
Questions You Can Ask
There are two reasons to ask good questions. First, you should ask many questions during your graduate admissions interview so that you can gather the information that you need to determine if this is the right program for you. Remember that you are interviewing the graduate program - you must choose the program that is right for you. Second, of course, good questions impress admissions committees. DO YOUR RESEARCH TO DEVELOP GOOD QUESTIONS.
Ask away-if applicable:
>What do you consider the greatest strength of this program? Of this profession?
>What makes a student successful in you...
Visiting Graduate Schools
Campus visits are an important component to making your graduate school program decisions. Just when you decide to visit is up to you, but the most crucial point of visitations is to get your own perspective on what you can expect from certain graduate schools. You can visit graduate schools: before applying, after applying, or before enrollment. It's never too early, and it's never too late.
Every time
Appointments: Before hopping in the car or on a plane, it is important that you pick up the telephone and call the graduate advisor or faculty recruiter to set up an appointment. Specif...
The grad school campus visit
While certainly not a mandatory exercise, visiting the campus of your target school(s) can be really helpful in your search for the right school. It also can give the admissions office a stronger sense of who you are as a person, beyond what they'll glean from your application.
Your campus visit can include some or all of the ideas discussed in this article.
>Planning ahead
>An admissions office visit
>The admissions interview
>A visit to the financial aid office
>A departmental visit, if necessary
>A class visit
>A campus tour
>Informational interviews with current students
>Exp...
Ready or not?! Graduate School Here I Come!
Are you thinking about applying to graduate school? As you may recall from my last blog post, My Story: Making a Career Change at Age 29, I recently went through the application process and am working toward my master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs. While not everyone may be thinking about the same field, I have a few tips for the overall process that will keep you on-track to meet those application deadlines.
Be Organized
This will mean different things for everyone, but being organized is extremely important when applying to graduate school. For me, this was creati...
Help! Can Graduate School Actually Lead to Career Change?
By Laura Meyer
Laura Meyer is an IBM Client Executive and co-founder of BOULD. She is based out of San Francisco.
It took me six years to fully change my career, and I'm still learning about the path in which I am headed. Here's my story on the steps I took, why I took them, and most importantly, the many errors and lessons I learned along the way.
This is Part III of a now FOUR part series on career change. (Part III turned into a small novel so it has now been extended to include a Part IV. If Harry Potter movies can do it, I can too.) Here I explore the decision to return to schoo...
Arizona Summit Receives WRBLSA Award Arizona Summit was recently awarded the 2016 Black Student Law Association Chapter Award at the
Western Region Black Law Students Association (WRBLSA)'s 48th annual convention held during the
first week of January in San Diego.
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