How To Address the Challenges of Returning to Graduate School Portland OR

1. Embrace change. Going back to school, even if you've only taken a year off, will be change of pace. You will have a new schedule, new expenses, new stressors, and new goals to reach. One thing that may help make all this newness easier to handle is to expect it and embrace it. Things are going to be different and trying to ignore that or keep it from happening will do you no good. Instead, think of change in general as your first challenge, and try to view it as an invigorating process, a chance for personal and professional growth.
   
   
2. Set your priorities upfront. When you return to school, you may have a scheduled load with being a parent, a spouse, an employee and now, a student. Or, you may be a fulltime student who doesn't even have an outside job. Whatever your schedule is, whatever your responsibilities are, it's up to you to be in control of your priorities. So many people are "overscheduled" and "overstressed" not because they have to be, but simply because they refuse to say "no" or because they decide they have to have it all, right away. Having it all can include having an ulcer, a migraine, an unhappy family or a low GPA. Set priorities and do your best create a schedule which makes the most important things the ones that get done first.
   
   For example, if you know your kids keep you on the run, and you can only take one class per semester, then just take one class per semester. If your priority is building your business and it takes a lot of time, then don't take a course that's going to be time-intensive. If you really want your degree before you turn thirty-five, then tell your boyfriend, sorry, you won't have as much time for him on Tuesdays and Thursdays because you have class. Which brings up another point...
   
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Author: B. Danesco