4 Courses and Full time work
Hello, I am a mature student starting the program on September. I am planning to take 4 classes and hopefully work full time from 8 to 5. I have read that some folks have done it while some quit the work to study full time. From anyone who finished first couple semesters, would you recommend it? Does the class schedule even allow daytime work? I know it will be really tough and wont have any free time. But is it possible? I need to keep food on the table and prices are crazy out here.
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Working full time and taking 4 full time courses will be extremely extremely tough… A few semesters ago, I had taken 4 night classes, while working full time. And that… was the most stressful semester in my life
Taking day time classes will be even tougher. It’s prob a bad idea….
Did you switch to part time work? Or part time study?
Part time study(night classes)
working full time
it was much more doable with online day classes
I was working 35ish hours with 5 classes for the first sem and managing it pretty well, but that was online classes
the commute to seneca can be pretty time-consuming
having to go in-person twice per week for each class on top of full-time work and assignments would be a lot
It does sound like a lot more than i can manage
Yeah I mean, my commute to Seneca is 1.5hrs each way, so 3 hours of commuting per day of school
it's a huge time-killer and I wouldn't envy working full-time on top of that
Most classes are during 8-5. If you have professors who demand you do weekly quizzes in-class or similar testings, you'll either not be able to show up to work or you'll end up suffering heavily marks-wise if not potentially failing. If you are flexible, like magic did, you should look into taking night school options as a "part time" student. Its the same shit, but night time. I personally had classes first term where weekly quizzes and certain assignments were in person and due then. I can't imagine missing those.
Part time work it is. Thank you guys for sharing your experience!
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I'm currently in my first semester, taking 4 in-class and 1 online course (COM101), and working part time (~20 hours/week). Everything is doable and manageable and I've gotten decent grades so far, but that might be because I have prior exprience in programming. My friend who is in the same sem is working full time though, mostly working after 4pm and on weekends. She seems to maintain the balance of works pretty well, but I can see that it will be more difficult for her to find time to study in the 2nd semester, as I assume it will require more study time.
so I would recommend working part time if you really have to work
Yeah part-time would definitely be more sustainable