bb1314

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Your Educational Assistance Application has been approved and processed by the HR Service Center.

WOOHOO!!! I finally pulled the trigger after years of wanting to start my graduate study in Systems Engineering. I just got all the signatures from all the managers, HR, legal, etc and got the educational assistance application approved. All tuition, fees and books will be paid for as long as I get an A, or B in the class.

I will be taking 2 graduate courses in Systems Engineering offered by Johns Hopkins University starting in September 2010. I will still be working full time (40 hours a week). Is that a very heavy work load for those of you that have experience in this?

woodrow88

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Congrats eTEN

bb1314

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Thank you wooDIE

woodrow88

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so im guess we will never see you at any meets? Your going to be to busy with school...

bb1314

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Note that I'm starting in September so I'm trying to get NZC organized and up and running and have a bunch of fun meets over the summer before school starts. Then once school starts I'm gonna propose for a re-election and let someone else run the club. Lets hope one of you guys can step it up and put a snail or two in your car so I can nominate you

CRIDDA

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Congrats bro. My wife works 45hrs a week at one job. 4hrs at a private client and goes to school full time. It is managable. She is majoring in psychology

bb1314

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WOW she's a superwomen! I actually worked full time (40 hours a week) as a software tester and took 2 undergraduate courses part time for a year to finish up my bachelor degree and that was manageable. I'm not sure how much heavier the work load is for graduate courses.

Barnabas

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this past fall I was working 40-50 hours a week and taking 12 credit hours (4 classes) and playing on 2 sports teams.

Its def doable but yes you will stay busy.

CRIDDA

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Its not easy, thats for sure, her work load increased sightly(just a little more complicated). Her fulltime job is working with kids who have autism. We still have our weekends, durning the week, I work 55hrs+, so we never see much of each other except to go to bed. If it is something that you truely want, you can make it happen. GL to you brotha

Chris

bb1314

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^ Is the sex life still there? Sorry I have to ask.....

CRIDDA

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Oh yeah, we practice having kids many nights a week

Key word there is practice, no kids until after grad school

lek at ngc

congrats. I am a full time worker and part time undergrad student.

Motormouth

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I am doing undergrad. it's really, really tough, but it's not too bad.

my schedule is like:

M-F
8:30 start work
5:00 leave work
T, Th
5:15 - 6:50 first class
7:00 - 9:15 end of last class
Sa
9:00 - 12:00 lecture

but grad I heard (from my colleagues who do it) is much easier, but requires more personal motivation.

lek at ngc

Mine is M-F 7:30-4PM

School is M TU TH 7-10

WYZIWYG

Grad courses are a little more intense but since most grad-students are working adults your Profs should be a little more understanding as long as you put in the effort and do the work. BTW, in my program you could "only" get As and Bs. A grade of C is technically considered failing in most programs.

bb1314

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Actually you're right.. I looked it over. The program I'm going to be in is the same way. It's been almost 5 years since I graduated from college, I'm kinda scared to take classes!

vtchang

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you will be fine. Asians have a secret gene that enables them to work and go to school at the same time. But for real, it depends on the school. I have a coworker that got his MS. in cpe from jhu and said it was riduclously hard. I also have two other coworkers that just got their sys engr masters from mason and they said it wasn't bad. The key is to do a lil work each day so you have some what of a weekend. Otherwise kiss your free time away. Good luck.

vtchang

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I wouldn't worry about that. It's hard to get a C in a class unless you plain out don't try. This is why a lot of grad students graduate with honors.

bb1314

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You guys are right.. Seems like people usually have awesome GPA in grad schools. Maybe their grading isn't as harsh. Or maybe most people that go to grad schools are already like academic achievers to begin with.

CRIDDA

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This. The wifey has a 4.0