I’m a mom w/ toddler and got accepted.
I’m currently living abroad because of my husband’s expatriate assignment, and I’m raising our 3-year-old daughter here as a stay-at-home mom. I left my previous job to move with him, but lately I’ve been struggling a bit with the feeling that outside of raising my child, there isn’t much else I can really do in this country. At the same time, I know I’ll want to return to work once his assignment ends, so I wanted to minimize the career gap as much as possible.
Because of that, I decided to apply to graduate school, and fortunately I was accepted into the online MBA program at a good school I had really wanted.
The problem is… before classes have even officially started, I’ve been going through all the onboarding materials, and I’m honestly overwhelmed. I expected the workload to be heavy, but the program seems even more intense than I imagined. I thought the flexibility of an online program would make it feel manageable, but it sounds closer to ~20 hours a week of coursework, group work, readings, etc.
Now I’m scared that I won’t be able to handle it while raising a toddler. More than anything, I don’t want my daughter to feel neglected because of my studies.
Are there any moms here who went through grad school while raising young children at the same time? How did you manage it emotionally and practically?
I think maybe I just need some reassurance that this is actually possible.