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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Geez, you had it easy! I thought Grad school would make my brains run out my ears. All my classes were late afternoon/evening, so I'd wake up at 7:30 to have breakfast with my girlfriend, she'd leave for her classes at 8:30 and I'd sit down to study/do homework. Mostly it was reading... hundreds of pages every day, and writing synopses.. I'd stop when it was time to ride to class, attend classes, then come home and do more work. We would both stop at 11:30 and watch a Star Trek rerun, then go to bed, only to repeat it all the next day. Saturday and most Sundays were the same. Once in a while we'd go out to dinner on a Saturday night, and even more rarely, take a Sunday motorcycle ride. I did this 11 months a year for three years, (it was for two simultaneous degrees) just for my Master's. We will NOT discuss what I went through for a Doctorate...
Bar? I didn't even SEE the inside of a bar, movie theater, or club during those years.
Stitchawl
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Political Science was always easy for me. I could read a book or article once and know what it was about. As long as I took notes so that I could easily recall what a specific article said during class I was good to go. Many of my classmates commented that they were reading the same thing 2-3 times, I never had to. Stats classes and Game Theory were a real time suck for me. They took hours upon hours to study for.
I was not working a real job when I was in grad school. I was a full time student who taught classes as a Grad Assistant. My part time jobs let me do a fair amount of class work, grading, and prep while supervising folks. Heck, I was doing a second job while at my part time job while spelling.
For the record, I was reading about 2,000 pages a week when I was taking classes. We did not have regular exams. We would have one final at the end of the semester that simulated the Comprehensive Exam experience or a final paper that was about 50 pages long.
I am no longer teaching but have thought about teaching at a Junior College.