Posted by caraher on November 11, 2008, at 4:58:29
In reply to Re: Need ideas for a project » caraher, posted by Quintal on November 9, 2008, at 19:28:05
> Thanks caraher, it would be interesting to know how you managed to adapt your study schedule around your family life, if you had to make any sacrifices with either of them, and anything like that.
As a grad student who'd taken a few courses over the intervening years I only really had 1.5 years of coursework. Our older son was in kindergarten when I started back and so I'd pack the younger one in a stroller, walk to school with the older one, walk to day care, play for 15-20 minutes to settle the younger one in, dash off to class. From there it was a mostly pretty normal day; my wife would round up the kids.
My wife was never happy about the arrangement, and it was an unending source of stress.
> Were you much older than the other students? I guess so many of them would still be enjoying the 'student lifestyle' it would be hard to fit in with their social lives.
I was about 8 years older than most of them. I was pretty clearly in another world as far as they were concerned, not that anyone was unfriendly. But a lot of what happened in grad school for them occurred in their offices in the evening, working on homework together, whereas I was home doing whatever needed to be done, and did my homework by myself.
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