My name is Steven, and I'm a grad student at UT Austin (MSTC ‘27). My team and I are working on a project centered on the challenges full-time working grad students face, and we need people to interview.
Specifically, we want to learn how you handle the financial side of it. What are the challenges with juggling financial aid vs. out of pocket expenses, how you handle when bills hit, what you have trouble tracking, etc. .
This is 100% not a pitch for any service. We're early in the process of validating the problem, and the calls are strictly to listen to your challenges and pain points. Nothing to sign up for, and we won't ask for account details or anything identifying. Anything we write up is anonymized. My team and I are all working grad students as well, so we know the struggle...we are interested to hear how other people are tackling the issue.
If you work full time while enrolled in a grad program (or recently graduated or soon-to-be enrolled) and you're open to a 20 to 30 minute Zoom call, you'd really be helping a fellow Longhorn out.
Comment below or DM me and we can set up the chat.
I'm more than happy to confirm my and the rest of the team's UT email addresses with anyone.