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My husband, Marlozahn, is stuck between going to work on his Masters in another state or staying here and working his job, which he loves, for a year. Yet I have heard (and do not doubt) that taking a year off of school makes it harder to return.
My dad took a break from school, that's how I (the middle child) was born in Seattle and all my brothers were born in Utah....
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When I was accepted to NYU law school, I went to New York to attend an Admittee's day. The dean spoke to all of us, and was very encouraging, and wanted us all to accept and come to his school. However, he also urged all of us to consider taking a year off to do something else: work, travel, whatever. He said it would be of great value to us, and our places at NYU would be waiting for us at the end of that year.
I didn't take his advice. Of course, I didn't end up enrolling at NYU, either.
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I took about an 8 year break between taking courses amounting to about 2 years of college work and going back to complete. I went right from the bachelors to the masters. Took a year off from that and enrolled in a doctoral program. Spent about 5 years doing that and ditched it in favor of my current occupation.
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Depending on the program, it is also possible to get a Masters and work at the same time. There are great distance learning programs in some disciplines offered by great schools.
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Thank you for all of your comments (more comments are always welcome). Marlozahn is still trying to figure out what to do. I think he wants to apply for the 2 schools and see if he gets accepted then he says that if they don't accept him his decision will be easier.. but there is an awefully good chance that at least one would accept him. I sense that he does want to take a break for a year and stay here.
Unfortunately distance learning for Marriage and Family Therapy Majors is not possible.
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I think one of the problems with taking a year off before going back to school is the money. Students get used to living on the cheap. Once you get into the real world with a real paycheck, it's hard to give that up and go back to Ramen noodles again.
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I agree with that! When I graduated two years ago, I thought Iwould just teach a few years, pay off my student loans, then go to grad school. Unfortunately, I've discovered that one doesn't have to live off fifty dollars a month, and that having a car that's reliable is nice, and I like my big apartment....so two years later...part time grad student, full time teacher. It works. Posts: 862 | Registered: Oct 2003
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I was out of school for six years before I went back for my masters. It might have been harder to return in the sense that having a full-time paycheck was hard to give up, but as for the actual schoolwork I think time off was an advantage. The students who came straight from college seemed to have “senioritis” from the very first day. Those of us who’d had time off were much more excited about being back, we tended to go more in-depth with what we were learning. The straight-from-college folks were more likely to do the minimum to get by. This is, of course, a vast generalization. But at some level still true.
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