Yep, there I said it! All grad students are crazy! To be a graduate student you need to have an undergraduate degree. With that undergraduate degree, the result of: approximately 4 years (8 semesters) of writing papers, taking tests, and spending an inordinate amount of time in the research library, you can go out into the big, wide world and get a pretty decent job. That is the point of college after all, to secure a better job!
So then, why are there so many of us doing this all over again!?! Do we REALLY need these degrees to make the amount of money we want? Do we need that much money? Is there a better way to be spending our time, than to be BACK in school? For most of us, we had 13 years of required schooling, then 4 years in college (the 1st time). That is 17 years!!! Do we really need to make it 2 full decades (20 years)!?!
I do not think you realize just how many tests, papers, and heart-attack inducing moments these 20 years represent! Going to school is no easy task, even if you love being a student. Chances are you will have to take classes that you don't love, and then where is the motivation? Or you will have an unfair professor, or life will interfere. School does not exist in a bubble.
Most graduate students, be they in law school, seminary, or some other program are not just students. We are: wives/husbands, parents, friends, co-workers. Being a student is just one of the hats that we are wearing at the moment. It is a heavy hat, but it is just one. So when we get sick, take care of us. When we get crabby, don't get crabby back (unless that is what we want), be helpful. We may be here for all the right reasons, it is probably in God's plan for us to be here, but that doesn't make it any easier.
Midterms and the last 3 weeks of each semester are the worst. 2 months each year that we dread. We each have to remember: This too shall pass... I just hope I do!
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