Work + School?

[Tyche]

I wake up about 6:30am every morning and head to work. I work til 3:30 and leave work and head to the university, which is an hour away. I usually get home around 9:30pm, watch whatever I DVRd that night, then hit the bed around 11pm. I try to get about 7+ hours of sleep a night. I try and finish up most of my homework and studying on the weekends. My job isn't too bad though, I'm working right now. If need be, I can work on homework on and off while I'm here as well. I also have an 11 month old little girl. The current pace of my life is absurd. I could have taken the easy way out and just did 6-9 hours a week of school, but I'd rather zerg the teaching certificate and be on my merry way to low wages in a public school system. The semester of observations and student teaching should be interesting, as I can't hold a job during that period. I'm sure that'll accomodate my mortgage and child quite well . During my undergrad time at UofL, when I didn't work at all, my GPA was actually lower than what I'm currently holding at this university. Have a 4.0 going into midterms this semester, but one of my professors is teaching her last semester before she retires off to Greece. Man, she fucking grades hard. We started with 30 people in the class, were down to 8 at spring break. So I'll probably lose the 4.0. It just seems with work and a child, I'm much more structured and focused than I was right out of high school. Maybe that's the reason I'm doing better at this university than I did at UofL during my undergrad.

@ OP. Don't major in Law if you want to go to law school (actually i've never heard of a major in "Law", there's "Pre-Law" and Political Science). Id go with Psychology. Take some critical thinking classes as electives, it'll help on the LSAT.

[evilbau]

When I was in college I had a full time+ job (60-80 hours/week) while going to school fulltime. I missed a lot of class obviously and pretty much just did projects and tests. So my school work really suffered but it was a great experience and forms the backbone of my resume. I was one of the founding members of a startup and was the chief architect and lead programmer for a technology heavy consulting company. That company became (and still is) the industry leader in its niche accounting consulting. I still don't know if it was worth it because i barely graduated due to the demands of my job, but the experience gained was also invaluable. I also felt burned out by the time I was done with school. At the time I felt my job was much more important than my school work.

[Guyverarmor]

I work 40hrs a week (thurs-sun 10am to 9pm) then the three days I have off I go to schol 5hrs Mon-wends)
Add a Fiance' and electronics homework,etc. makes me a sad panda sometimes, but in the end it will be worth it. Also looking forward to see my fiance' during normal hours besides when she's sleeping. She leaves at 6am and gets home around 4pm. Soon enough though~!

[Saphirea]

The last semester I was in school I took 16 credit hours and worked about 50 hours a week.

Sleep didn't exist.

[jmc]

Work full time 40-60 hours a week for boston police and goto school 12 hours a week for criminal justice (Quinn bill FTW!!!!!)

Work has some downtime, its usually when i'll get my work done.

[dritero]

Engineering = six to eight courses a semester (depending on your school) + labs. When I was going to school there was no time for a job.

[BIGSTIC]

@ OP. Don't major in Law if you want to go to law school (actually i've never heard of a major in "Law", there's "Pre-Law" and Political Science). Id go with Psychology. Take some critical thinking classes as electives, it'll help on the LSAT.

My cousin just graduated from Law School and Passed the bar last spring. Her initial degree was in "English". She got her degree and then got a job clerking/researching for a local Law Firm for about 2 years then went on to get her Law Degree. Now she makes fun of me cause i used to jab her all the time about getting an English degree compared to my engineering degree.

Engineering = six to eight courses a semester (depending on your school) + labs. When I was going to school there was no time for a job.

I found that engineering for me was easier as far as work load. I found the labs/HW were alot less intensive than my friends who were more liberal arts just because they would have to read books after books after books. Also since most the work was graded on a right or wrong standarded vs. the having to try to make the assignment agree with the professer seemed to make things easier for me. Course I was the kid that the more calulations you had to do the more i enjoyed the assignment.

The only kids I felt sorry for when I was in college was the architect majors. Those guys never left campus unless it was to get more supplies for the next model they had to build. I had to take 2 of their classes for my degree and man that is what I would call hell for 5 years.

[Tyche]

@ OP. Don't major in Law if you want to go to law school (actually i've never heard of a major in "Law", there's "Pre-Law" and Political Science). Id go with Psychology. Take some critical thinking classes as electives, it'll help on the LSAT.

My cousin just graduated from Law School and Passed the bar last spring. Her initial degree was in "English". She got her degree and then got a job clerking/researching for a local Law Firm for about 2 years then went on to get her Law Degree. Now she makes fun of me cause i used to jab her all the time about getting an English degree compared to my engineering degree.

Engineering = six to eight courses a semester (depending on your school) + labs. When I was going to school there was no time for a job.

I found that engineering for me was easier as far as work load. I found the labs/HW were alot less intensive than my friends who were more liberal arts just because they would have to read books after books after books. Also since most the work was graded on a right or wrong standarded vs. the having to try to make the assignment agree with the professer seemed to make things easier for me. Course I was the kid that the more calulations you had to do the more i enjoyed the assignment.

The only kids I felt sorry for when I was in college was the architect majors. Those guys never left campus unless it was to get more supplies for the next model they had to build. I had to take 2 of their classes for my degree and man that is what I would call hell for 5 years.

That's actually a good way of getting into/working through law school is what we called "court running". Essentially, you were a paper boy/girl for a firm that ran back and fourth to the courthouse to take and bring back paper work. Looks great on an application. On the undergrad note, english isn't too absurd for a law school student. If looking for preparing yourself though, it seems most people prefer psych. I did pre-law/polysci. Not fun. Psych is at least interesting.

[Hitoshura]

I wake up about 6:30am every morning and head to work. I work til 3:30 and leave work and head to the university, which is an hour away. I usually get home around 9:30pm, watch whatever I DVRd that night, then hit the bed around 11pm. I try to get about 7+ hours of sleep a night. I try and finish up most of my homework and studying on the weekends. My job isn't too bad though, I'm working right now. If need be, I can work on homework on and off while I'm here as well. I also have an 11 month old little girl. The current pace of my life is absurd. I could have taken the easy way out and just did 6-9 hours a week of school, but I'd rather zerg the teaching certificate and be on my merry way to low wages in a public school system. The semester of observations and student teaching should be interesting, as I can't hold a job during that period. I'm sure that'll accomodate my mortgage and child quite well . During my undergrad time at UofL, when I didn't work at all, my GPA was actually lower than what I'm currently holding at this university. Have a 4.0 going into midterms this semester, but one of my professors is teaching her last semester before she retires off to Greece. Man, she fucking grades hard. We started with 30 people in the class, were down to 8 at spring break. So I'll probably lose the 4.0. It just seems with work and a child, I'm much more structured and focused than I was right out of high school. Maybe that's the reason I'm doing better at this university than I did at UofL during my undergrad.

@ OP. Don't major in Law if you want to go to law school (actually i've never heard of a major in "Law", there's "Pre-Law" and Political Science). Id go with Psychology. Take some critical thinking classes as electives, it'll help on the LSAT.

Well the thing is I am barely starting college this Fall.. I actually don't know what I want to do.. and I really need to sign up for classes soon before they are all taken. We have a lot of Japanese people transfer over here, I really don't know why here, but anyway classes fill up real quick with them and everyone else in this town. I'll figure it out.. thanks for the heads up though.

[octopus]

wtf, some of you guys have a full time job, lots of hours at school and you play FFXI??

Do you even sleep?

[Woozie]

Sleep is overrated.

[Hitoshura]

Man I have been living off 3-4 hours of sleep lately on weekends and people comment on how tired I look but I don't really see it. I probably gained bags under my eyes or something. It's weird too because I don't feel tired at all when they say this.