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By Lucas Weingarten
By now, most of you have made up your mind about whether you’re headed to graduate school full-time or part-time. I chose to be one of the former, but most I worked alongside while studying and just about all I now teach in my grad-level Org Behavior class are members of the latter cohort: part-time students, full-time professionals. Hat’s off to you.
For various and inarguable reasons, going to school part-time is the best choice for many aspiring MBAs out there. Life, work, money, time—any, all, and more of these factors make the decision for you. The important thing is that you’ve decided to not let them stop you; you’ve figured out the work-around(s) and are making the sacrifice(s).
If you are going to be a part-time student, promise me… wait, no! Promise yourself one thing: be an active student. I’m not talking about doing all your work, contributing to class discussions, and getting good grades. Of course you’ll do that. What I’m talking about is taking advantage of all the other stuff that goes on at institutions of higher learning. Universities are teeming with unique and myriad opportunities that can only be found outside the classroom.
It will be easier for your full-time colleagues to exploit the extracurricular and professional opportunities that accompany the foray back into academia. The simple truth is that they will be better off for it. I contend that as many experiential learning prospects you can mine out of your formal education, the better that education will serve you.
If and when ever it is at all possible for you to get involved in any way outside your classroom curriculum, do it! The education, experiences, and network expansion those added on activities will yield will be of immeasurable worth at the end of this sure-to-be wild ride.
~Article provided by the courtesy of Kaplan GMAT
