Category Archive for: ‘Graduate School’

• Student Loan Forgiveness Is Here: Income Based Repayment Program

  Forget the witty commentary at this point, you just want the details.   What is Income Based Repayment (IBR) ? Income-Based Repayment (IBR) is a new way to make your federal student loan payments more manageable.  And if you’re a teacher or work in government or at [...]

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• Too Educated For Entry Level? Why Having A Master’s Degree May Be To Your Detriment

  The Washington Post published the article Too Educated For Entry Level, and I was actually excited to see that they’d taken on this issue, especially here in the DC Metro area. With more women going to college and then going on to obtain master’s degrees, [...]

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  Transitioning From Working Girl to Lowly Intern

  photo credit: Jessica DeWinter Today will make two weeks since I quit my job. And while it was necessary to accommodate my busy schedule and to allocate more time to coursework, this involved revisiting our budget as we made the transition from a 2-income household [...]

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  Vent: My Disillusionment and Resentment with Graduate Education

  photo credit: base2wave I’ve spent the last few days or so thinking about my current career path, especially after this post where I noted my lack of a commitment to my career at this point in time. This brought about a slew of conflicting thoughts [...]

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