{"id":1382,"date":"2014-12-17T09:58:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2014-12-17T09:58:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:58:17","slug":"and-you-thought-grad-school-was-hard-enough-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comgrad\/2014\/12\/17\/and-you-thought-grad-school-was-hard-enough-already\/","title":{"rendered":"And you thought grad school was hard enough already\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ali Parisi<\/strong><\/a>
\nMS Public Relations \u201916<\/em><\/a>
\nBU College of Communication<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been through four seasons of Division 1 soccer competition (and thanks to one red-shirt year, I\u2019ve got another coming up next fall); so you\u2019d think I\u2019d be pretty good at managing my time by now, right?<\/p>\n

WRONG! (Just kidding, I actually have gotten pretty good at it, but that was more dramatic right?) Honestly, it never gets easier or less stressful.\u00a0 And this past semester, being in grad school added that extra workload that nearly put me over the edge.<\/p>\n

\"Ali<\/a>
Me (in grey) and my teammate, Ariana Aston, celebrate after beating Navy in our conference opener this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The NCAA designates 20 hours a week of required activities for Division 1 athletes while in season.\u00a0 This is supposed to give students time to actually be students and maybe even have a social life.\u00a0 But what they don\u2019t take into account is all the other little things that come along with being a student athlete.\u00a0 To explain, let me give you a better idea as to what my schedule looks like as a grad student-athlete:<\/p>\n