People Who Went to Grad School - How'd You Do It?

[nageov3t]

financially.

work full-time and go to grad school part-time? not work at all and live off of student loans?

I'm looking for ideas 😛 more and more, I realize that the only way I'll get a job that I really love will be through going back to school to get my master's or phd.

 

[Juno]

i plan to go to graduate school and live off scholarships/loans instead working.

 

[sohcrates]

both my wife and I go to grad school. night program. between us we are in school 4 nights a week and working full time. but it pays the bills (and work pays for grad school ) 🙂

btw...i'm in grad school right now...hehe...thank you wireless acces

 

[Ronstang]

I did it the old fashioned way, no scholarships or government money, I paid for it myself. I set up my money in investments that kept paying me while I was in school.

 

[Heisenberg]

I'm a grad student now. We get our tuition waved and have a stipend as an RA or TA for 20 hrs/week of work.

 

[AtlantaBob]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I'm a grad student now. We get our tuition waved and have a stipend as an RA or TA for 20 hrs/week of work.

Ditto... makes for a lot of cheap meals, but it's doable.

 

[Whisper]

Like one of the above posters, I'm on an assistantship, and thus receive a tuition waiver and monthly stipend. However, the stipend alone is not enough to live on, and as we're not legally allowed to work, I make do with student loans to cover everything else.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: AtlantaBob

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
I'm a grad student now. We get our tuition waved and have a stipend as an RA or TA for 20 hrs/week of work.

Ditto... makes for a lot of cheap meals, but it's doable.

Same here. However I was jacked my first year as I was an out of state resident and the waiver didn't cover that so I took a student loan for that.

 

[Gibsons]

Got a stipend. Ate a lot of spaghetti. Killed a few all you can eat buffets. Made meals out of any school function that featured snacks (you can pile those tiny plates pretty high with practice, and if they've got chicken wings? it's on 🙂 )

 

[Spamela]

my employer gave me paid time off (6 hours/week) & paid the tuition.

 

[nod218]

Just curious, I am also a TA and was wondering if your school provides like medical insurance for the TA/RA...for those who have a TAship

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

I worked PT for the university doing crap jobs as a TA or PA or research. That was usually 20 hrs/week and paid just barely enough to live without too much debt.

 

[snoopdoug1]

Employer paid the tuition bill. I worked full time.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

almost done with mine, 100% tuition reimbursement from my employer