SING FOR YOUR STIPEND
Students fund their education through music, prose and other creative pursuits.
"... While most psychology graduate students offset loans through research and teaching assistantships, [some] students pad their grad funding away from the ivory tower. In addition to paying the bills, performing arts and creative writing give them a needed break from academia—and sometimes enrich these grad students’ education in surprising ways."
Read full article here:
http://gradpsych.apags.org/jan08/stipen
Might start getting you thinking of creative ways to fund your schooling! The APA/APAGS sites always have a lot of good articles- definitely worth surfing around if you haven't yet.
I think one of the best choices I made was to spend a year before starting grad school doing a massage therapy training and getting licensed in Massachusetts. I work very part-time, mostly on Saturdays, not more than 3-4 hours a week (and sometimes none). It works well for me- the scheduling is flexible and the hourly pay is significantly better than anything else I'd be qualified to do. Still, I primarily live on massive student loans- the massage work just gives me pocket cash and a little feeling of security.
Reading this article motivated me take an informal poll recently asking current MSPP about how they fund their education and get living expenses. I'll be organizing the results soon and posting them on the blog, but if you want the short answer, it's LOANS! Just about everybody (who responded to my poll) cited receiving some kind of supplementary loan to help with living expenses, though many also did mention family support. More detailed results coming soon...
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