y biggest problem is time mangagement skills, mother of three children..just given job up to study full time, and feeling a little out of touch with academic learning at the moment. Anyway your simple, but very effective words of wisdom have been very helpful this morning…. so thankyou, I’ll make sure to look at the site regularly.

Penelope, a professor I had here at MIT told me the story of having her first child while a graduate student. She claims that it actually improved her performance (evidenced, I guess, by her professorship at MIT). The key for her was this realization that her time was limited — her day now only offering a small number of unambiguously “open” slots. So she started to attack those slots with intensity, focusing on the absolutely most important steps toward her academic goals.

In other words, viewed the right day, your unique constraints as a mother might help you fall into the schedule of intense attacks that many students struggle with.

Exception–not a rule.
Of course an English Professor is going to have friends who are *shocking* english majors.
And hell, I’ve been a CEO of a company since age 19–sure-I STARTED the company.