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[Guest please]

How easy or difficult is it, to pursue ur graduate studies without any aid from the university. What is the loan that one would have to take considering I am willing to do a part time job or something like that.

[Guest NotReadyToHangMyself:)]

If it's your only option, and you truly want to work in that field for life, then by all means take out a bank loan.

If you're in a PhD program, you are eligible for aid after 1 year anyway if you perform well your first year. They would rather give money to a student that has already showed promise than a fresh faced unproven yuppy.

Do NOT work a part time job. You are already short on time, you'll be spending easily 40+ hours per week studying! Teaching assistanships and research assistantships are both job opportunities in your field that are sometimes offered in lieu of funding, I would aggressively look into that if you go somewhere with no funding.

Good luck. I'll also probably end up with no funding (I'm a crappy student ) but I'll go ahead and take out a loan anyway.