What’s life like as a part-time student at Peabody?
It’s GRAND!!
I get lots of questions from my colleagues (from work and from class) asking me what a typical “day-in-the-life-of” looks like for someone who works full-time (for a large non-profit) while completing graduate work part-time.
Here’s a somewhat regular non-class day for me during the program:
4:30am – wake up
5:30am – leave for work
5:00pm – home from work (phone my parents on the drive home)
5:30pm – order text books for my 2nd summer class (while eating dinner)
7:00pm – watch Dancing with the Stars (while balancing checkbook and paying bills online)
8:00pm – 10:00pm – reading for my 1st summer class
Here’s a somewhat regular class weekend for me during the program:
Friday:
6:00am – wake up
7:00am – leave for work
12 noon – leave work and travel to Nashville
4:00pm – 8:00pm – in class
Saturday:
7:00am – wake up
8:30am – 5:00pm – in class
5:00pm – leave Nashville and head home
Since I take 2 classes (6 hours) per semester, I only have to be in Nashville 6 times a semester (about once every 6 weeks).
Fall and Spring semesters are particularly busy because my work responsibilities really ramp up and I also participate in volunteer work. Summer will be intense because I have 2 classes packed into 2 short months! I’ll be in Nashville almost every weekend from late May to mid July…
I have found my school commitments very challenging and, yet, manageable as long as I multi-task; I very rarely do just one thing at a time when I’m not at work. Right now, I’m blogging and listening to a pre-recorded online webinar (apologies for any typos or grammatical errors!). :0)
If you are working full-time and wondering if you’ll ever be able to go back to school – ask around…you just might find it more do-able than you thought!
-April L. Mollerberg
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