07-12-2014, 07:07 AM
I only work part time outside the home (16 hours/week), but commute 1 hour each way to work (4 hours/week), homeschool for about 30 hours/week, and allocate 5 solid hours on maintenance of my book-related stuff, so I'm "working" full time. In fact, I work a bit less then my hubby who is "at" work full time because he has a 15 minute commute and they only work M-Th at his company. So, that's a snapshot into my life.
I enrolled in 2 classes (6 cr) the first semester, then got a feel for things. I ended up the next semester taking 3 (9 cr) then back to 2 (6 cr) the semester we moved across the country, and then last semester 12 because I was ready to be done already. (that was a tough semester). But, that freed me up to work 100% on my thesis my final semester, and that was a great plan. I have classmates who took a class with their thesis and thought the workload was too much. I don't know if your school will allow flexibility in registration each semester, but having that option means you won't ever really be too far in to a schedule that is too little or too much.
What took the most time for me, was academic writing. If you're second language is in APA style, you'll not be bothered, but this slowed my ability to crank out assignments. A paper that might only take me 1 day to write really took 3 because of all the style requirements and layout/format of headers/pages/notes/references/etc.... (meaning- the research/draft was done when I started the physical "writing" part).
Also, there was a boat-load of reading. (a bit more dry since it was generally journals instead of text books) Even little things like accessing the articles, for me, took a bit more time than cracking open a text.
The work? No different. I think if you can learn one thing you can learn anything. The information was just like learning anything new, with a little more critical thinking. I don't think it was "harder" in that sense (except for 1 class in my case, that I hadn't completed the prereq for and they let me in anyway lol- bad idea).
Good luck!! You'll do fine
I enrolled in 2 classes (6 cr) the first semester, then got a feel for things. I ended up the next semester taking 3 (9 cr) then back to 2 (6 cr) the semester we moved across the country, and then last semester 12 because I was ready to be done already. (that was a tough semester). But, that freed me up to work 100% on my thesis my final semester, and that was a great plan. I have classmates who took a class with their thesis and thought the workload was too much. I don't know if your school will allow flexibility in registration each semester, but having that option means you won't ever really be too far in to a schedule that is too little or too much.
What took the most time for me, was academic writing. If you're second language is in APA style, you'll not be bothered, but this slowed my ability to crank out assignments. A paper that might only take me 1 day to write really took 3 because of all the style requirements and layout/format of headers/pages/notes/references/etc.... (meaning- the research/draft was done when I started the physical "writing" part).
Also, there was a boat-load of reading. (a bit more dry since it was generally journals instead of text books) Even little things like accessing the articles, for me, took a bit more time than cracking open a text.
The work? No different. I think if you can learn one thing you can learn anything. The information was just like learning anything new, with a little more critical thinking. I don't think it was "harder" in that sense (except for 1 class in my case, that I hadn't completed the prereq for and they let me in anyway lol- bad idea).
Good luck!! You'll do fine
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