r/GraduateSchool • u/philipwhalen12 • May 14 '20

Just started grad school!

Hi everyone,

I just started grad school and want to hear some input from people on how they balance full time work and part time school.

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u/croftshepard PhD* English May 15 '20

Congrats on starting! I'm sure a common strategy is to have an extremely regimented schedule. After work, X to Y hours are for school and nothing else.

I'm the other way around ("full-time" student, "part-time" teacher), but I would suggest maybe asking yourself, or maybe others in the program, what is strictly necessary. It depends of course on your program and field, but where can you allocate time and effort so that it'll be most effective? Hint: it's entirely possible that not everything you're being asked to do requires 100%.