Suzi, I'm going to imaging you having a wild spring break.

If only.

I just hate that I've become THAT student. Calculating the bare minimum needed to get the bare minimum grade to stay in the program. It isn't even that I have an issue with the course material. I just haven't been able to brane the last three weeks and have let things slide.

The good news is that I'm down to the introduction and conclusion, but I need to walk away from it for a bit. I need to be able to read through it with a clear mind to catch any gaps before I do the summarizations.

Ooh, that sounds nice, Consuela.

Suzi, you can take a break from caring sometimes and it's fine.

Jesse, sounds like you got out just in time.

Oh, not my most recent job, another one.

Ugh. Sorry about the depression, Amy.

Gud, I was just thinking about you! How's everything?

The school schedule on top of your job sounds rough, though, Suzi. You deserve some time off!

aurelia, I'm pretty sure Franny would eat any cats that came over, so distance in this case is not a bad thing.

Rushing to thread-end and cross-posting from Bitches:

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This is me, groveling and having no shame.

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edited because I really was rushing.

Thanks, Gud. Some days it hits hard.

I just hate that I've become THAT student. Calculating the bare minimum needed to get the bare minimum grade to stay in the program. It isn't even that I have an issue with the course material. I just haven't been able to brane the last three weeks and have let things slide.

Suzi, I worked during my master's at AU, but that was a differently scheduled program and, frankly, I phoned in a lot of my work.

For my master's at Loyola, I didn't even try to do both.

I support you in whatever you need to do. And I'm amazed that you brane at all, with everything you manage.

I was so hardcore about the coursework, it took me at least 6 months to stop feeling like I had to be studying, or feeling guilty for not doing so.

Now that my dementia patient has died, I'm in the same weird rut.

All that to say, I think you are doing it right. What you do with your learning will, no doubt, be very different from your classwork. Getting through it is the goal.

What you do with your learning will, no doubt, be very different from your classwork. Getting through it is the goal.

That is one of the odd things so far. Everything has been fairly applicable to my current job whether it is something I currently do or something I've observed. Which should make it all easier and yet.

While taking on DCC has added another pull to my time and brain, I'm excited about the work involved. The assistant director above me is going to the same school though she is pretty much a full time student working on her bachelors in project management with an IT focus while I'm working on my masters in project management with a business acumen focus. But it is nice to have someone to whine with. It also means that my director (who is her boyfriend) GETS when neither of us can brane during the last week of a course.

But it is nice to have someone to whine with. It also means that my director (who is her boyfriend) GETS when neither of us can brane during the last week of a course.

Three's Company, huh? That is a nice confluence of matriculation.

How cool that your studying supports your work.

It's not that mine didn't, but I've just learned that no one ever asks for your grades...unless it's medical or law school...so it really is just what you make of it!