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PhD in Social Work - workload + RA/TAships


Adelaide9216

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Hello, should I take a Research Assistantship, OR a Teaching Assistantship OR teach a whole course during my first year as a PhD student ? I am going to have course work during the first year. Would that be too much to handle while having coursework?

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10 hours ago, Adelaide9216 said:

Hello, should I take a Research Assistantship, OR a Teaching Assistantship OR teach a whole course during my first year as a PhD student ? I am going to have course work during the first year. Would that be too much to handle while having coursework?

Congrats again !!! Ya, i got the similar questions as yours. As I head from other PhD students, they suggested me that I should take courses only because how we interact with the first two year courses significantly matters whether we can pass comprehensive exams (or qualifying exams). If we have extra energy and time, we can do RA, but not TA because TA are time-and energy consuming than RA.  Of course, that situation may differ from school to school. Thank you for your first shot to open this discussion in 2019~ I really appreciate that.

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