(no subject)

[mandolin]

I AM SO TIRED.

Note to self: never compare grad school experiences with anyone else until you finish the Master's. Because there is NOTHING more demoralizing than talking to someone who started hers a year after you did, is still working full-time, is taking a 42-credit Master's while yours is 36 and blithely talks about taking 4 class (read: 12 credit) semesters and how she'll be done in December. Nothing.

How the hell do you take a 12-credit semester and work full time without basically dumping half your work on other people? How? I want her secret.

Comments

[jennies.livejournal.com]

It's starting to sound like "4 Classes" was either a year-end total or a credits count, and in any case last time I checked MBAs carried (please don't harpoon me for this) a bit lighter load than MS degrees on a difficulty/coursework scale. So unless you're both taking comparable I.T. classes, even if she did mean "4 Classes a Semester", you still might be comparing apples to oranges.

And there is always the possibility that she's either got more free time to work on coursework on the job - either by way of lightweight projects, or a sympathetic supervisor with the ability to arrange workloads to accomodate her. (Said ability is nice when one has it, but getting harder to find when your department has more work than workers...)

Or she could just be one of Nature's hummingbirds. You've said she's a heavy partier, so she might just be doing all her unwinding on a booze schedule. She might also have considerably less hobbies/responsibilities (reading, rpgs, exercise, housecare, family drama) than you do. (She could also be one of those freaks what gets by on 6 hours of sleep or less. I can vouch for how much additional productivity can be squeezed from those 3-4 extra waketime hours...)


But you shouldn't beat yourself up about it either way - you know you're doing your level best to succeed (whilst maintaining a healthy portion of your sanity for later use), and at the end of the day that's all that matters. :)