{"id":1399,"date":"2019-09-23T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/solesadmissions\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2019-09-23T17:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:26:22","slug":"returning-to-school-after-significant-time-since-completing-undergraduate-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/solesadmissions\/2019\/09\/23\/returning-to-school-after-significant-time-since-completing-undergraduate-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to School After Significant Time Since Completing Undergraduate Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A blog post from SOLES <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/soles\/leadership-studies\/ma-higher-education-leadership\/\">MA in Higher Education Leadership Studies<\/a> Ambassador Juleane Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Five years. It took five years for me to transition between undergrad and graduate school.<\/p>\n<p>Hello everyone, my name is Juleane Johnson and this is my first year serving as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/soles\/admissions\/student-ambassadors\/?name_search=&amp;name_search_option=Any&amp;relevancy=contains&amp;alpha=&amp;expert=&amp;division_id=NaN&amp;office_department_id=37&amp;sub_department_id=NaN&amp;sub_unit_id=NaN&amp;user_type=&amp;sort=&amp;list_view_type=box-view&amp;filter_type=office-department-group&amp;group_id=22&amp;show_image=1&amp;details_button=show-details-button&amp;row_limit=24&amp;state=NaN&amp;usd_expert_keyword=&amp;department_filter_type=0&amp;filter_action=clicks\">SOLES Ambassador<\/a> and second year in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.edu\/soles\/leadership-studies\/ma-higher-education-leadership\/\">Higher Education Leadership, M.A. program<\/a>. I am actually writing this to you after it was intended.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1402 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.sandiego.edu\/solesadmissions\/files\/2019\/09\/received_10155949274819933-300x235.png\" alt=\"Photo of Juleane's acceptance letter\" width=\"339\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am a full-time employee and a full-time graduate student this semester and do wish that I could switch my predicament. I say this to say, if I could be a part-time employee and full-time student like I was during my undergraduate career, I would. The levels and shifts in responsibilities, expectations, and tasks all boil down to my having to be much more critical and careful of my day-to-day functions and operations. However, inevitably, I will miss or drop something though I cannot afford to. Those five years have brought me to a place where I know what I&#8217;m chasing after. I am in tune with the depth and gravity of my practitioner work, research, and aims. The nature of where I am employed (Residence Life), calls for flexibility. There are evening and weekend obligations and commitments that are parallel when I would utilize time toward studying or reading.<\/p>\n<p>Re-entering into student life, to student mode, there is much more on the line, much more at stake, much more at risk. Every day I am learning and building up my resiliency and aptitude to not just complete what\u2019s expected, but do so at my greatest potential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blog post from SOLES MA in Higher Education Leadership Studies Ambassador Juleane Johnson Five years. It took five years for me to transition between undergrad and graduate school. 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