full course load + 32 hours work?

[Mokthraka]

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just wodnering if anyone has went to school fulltime, and worked 32 hours a week, possibly graveyard shifts. I dont really have a choice, but I am wondering if anyone has done it. I am majoring in Chemistry by the way. No volunteering as of yet, but I have 5 years till med school. and I work at a hospital and with patients.

This first year is more of a trial run, as its just a Community college doing what I need to do to get into a university, which is only take a year of a language. but honestly, I think I may have to quit in a year.

 

[lstone13]

Yes, I worked almost full-time and also was a student full-time for much of my undergraduate. It's definitely do-able, but you really have to time manage and figure out how to fit in the study time you need. I struggled with that during my first year, but once I became used to it and better understood what I needed to do in order to balance both, it was fine.

 

[Mokthraka]

Yes, I worked almost full-time and also was a student full-time for much of my undergraduate. It's definitely do-able, but you really have to time manage and figure out how to fit in the study time you need. I struggled with that during my first year, but once I became used to it and better understood what I needed to do in order to balance both, it was fine.

yeah, I am not really worrying that much if the shifts are during the day. But the nights might be hard, but they pay much better, and its a lead position(after being here a month :O!)

 

[JESSFALLING]

This depends entirely upon your time management and study skills. Personally, I found that 6 units was comfortable while working ~ 32 hours/week. I made the decision to limit my credit hours until I quit my job. However, I also had a family and was a drummer for a local band.....which placed substantial additional demands on my time.

My recommendation is that you start with 3-6 units and adjust upward the following semester if you think you can handle more. Remember, a straight-A tortoise will beat a B+ hare any day of the week at the med school admissions game!

 

[Mokthraka]

This depends entirely upon your time management and study skills. Personally, I found that 6 units was comfortable while working ~ 32 hours/week. I made the decision to limit my credit hours until I quit my job. However, I also had a family and was a drummer for a local band.....which placed substantial additional demands on my time.

My recommendation is that you start with 3-6 units and adjust upward the following semester if you think you can handle more. Remember, a straight-A tortoise will beat a B+ hare any day of the week at the med school admissions game!

yeah, I figure I will just work, go to school and study. All my friends went out of state or joined the military anyways.

 

[cyanide12345678]

just wodnering if anyone has went to school fulltime, and worked 32 hours a week, possibly graveyard shifts. I dont really have a choice, but I am wondering if anyone has done it. I am majoring in Chemistry by the way. No volunteering as of yet, but I have 5 years till med school. and I work at a hospital and with patients.

This first year is more of a trial run, as its just a Community college doing what I need to do to get into a university, which is only take a year of a language. but honestly, I think I may have to quit in a year.

Yup it's definitely doable. During freshmen year I took about 16 credit hours each semester and worked about 28 - 30 hours a week and did about 3 hours a week of volunteer work. Scored a decent 3.83 during freshmen year (3.63 and 4.0 in the two semesters). And this was me pursuing chemical engineering at a top 5 engineering school.

So it's really not that bad lolz...Ofcourse I think what made it easier for me was that I took really long shifts and really only worked 3 days (and mostly over the weekends and friday nights). It really killed my social life because I was always working on the weekends when everyone else was having fun, otherwise the workload wasn't bad at all.

On a side note, my best friend (a chemical engineering student), she takes about 23 credit hours each semester (she's finishing a chemical engineering degree in 3 years. She came to college without AP credits as well so that's pretty remarkable). So with 23 credits, she does about 10 hours of tutoring a week. And then is the president of Aiche and has a social life lolz (and has a gpa of 3.93)...I don't quite know how she it. But she's juggling all those 300 and 400 level upper level chemical engineering courses while doing really good in them and still managing to work and do extracurricular stuff...

 

[Mokthraka]

like I said, I dont really care about a social life at the moment, everyone is gone. I would only work 4 nights a week, and there are nights where I would just sit and study the entire time.


I might take some classes in the summer. I hate the bordem of not learning anything, though I guess I could do that without paying.

 

[cyanide12345678]

like I said, I dont really care about a social life at the moment, everyone is gone. I would only work 4 nights a week, and there are nights where I would just sit and study the entire time.


I might take some classes in the summer. I hate the bordem of not learning anything, though I guess I could do that without paying.

If you can study while on the job then that's not a problem at all. So you don't even have anything to worry about.

 

[Mokthraka]

If you can study while on the job then that's not a problem at all. So you don't even have anything to worry about.

well it depends, some nights it will be hectic and I will be running my ass around the hospital. other nights you sit the entire night and have just a few things you have to do.