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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chun-tzu" data-source="post: 613766" data-attributes="member: 1441">These answers will vary widely, depending on your field and your school. You're better off asking these questions to graduate students in the program that you're interested in. Before I started my program, I got a chance to meet current students and get the scoop from them.Make sure you get an answer to your second question before signing up for any grad school. In a field like computer sciences, there may be better ways to spend your time, energy, and money than a Master's or Doctoral degree.As far as my experience goes, I'm a doctoral student in clinical psychology (now completed all my classwork, working on my dissertation and heading off for internship in the fall). I'm not terribly busy compared to my undergrad years, but many of my peers are. Lots of grad students work part-time jobs, have kids to take care of, and have other stuff going on. Or maybe after 8+ years of postsecondary education, you just get so used to the school thing that you don't really know what it's like not to be in school. For some (like me), grades became far less important once I hit grad school. A's are kind of pointless, since they won't really help me in any significant way. My interest is in developing my clinical skills, not my academic ones.The thesis isn't as big a deal as it seems, in many cases. Choose something that's interesting to you, and something that's very do-able. The hardest part of the thesis is that in many cases, it's not really built into your schedule like classes and class assignments are. This leads many to become ABD ("all but dissertation", meaning they've finished all requirements for their degree except the dissertation), and you want to avoid that if at all possible.</blockquote>

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