<p>is it possible to be a fulltime college student(12 hours+ a semester) and a fulltime employee(40+hours) in a 168 hour week(1 week)</p>
<p>i know it will be difficult but id like to be able to survive and pay for sustinence before i pay my tuition, and work study no where near cuts it</p>
<p>obviously even with classes very well chosen the work schedule will be awkward, but is this possible and how would you go about it???</p>
<p>That would be very difficult. I did have a student, though, who worked 30 hours a week and took 20 hours of coursework, did volunteer work and graduated magna. She had no life except for what I mentioned. Can you work fewer hours while taking out some loans to fill the gap?</p>
<p>i would prefer not to do loans, or rather to pretend they didnt exist, lol</p>
<p>There were a lot of students at my community college that did it, but they had to take night classes or on-line courses in order to make it work, and they spend their entire weekends and every other bit of free time doing their classwork. None of them ever got enough sleep and were constantly stressed out.</p>
<p>I usually worked “only” 20 hours a week while taking 15 credits (I only had two semesters of full-time student/work), and even then I had to do things like bring my textbooks to work in order to study at my cubicle during my lunch break and get up a lot of mornings by 6 a.m. (after getting out of classes at 10 p.m. the night before) just to finish work for 9 a.m. classes. I felt rushed all day long because I was racing back and forth from school to work, plus still trying to fit in general life obligations like going grocery shopping, making it to medical appointments, eating meals (really, even that’s a challenge because you had to schedule it all in), etc.</p>
<p>It’s incredibly rough, and I would say it’s pretty unhealthy because you’re dragging constantly. Take the loans. In a lot of ways, I’m glad I did it because I learned a lot from it about time management and also got a lot of personal affirmation out of it, but I wouldn’t want anyone else to do it. My life now as just a full-time student is such a pleasure.</p>