Masters Life: Returning to study
At the beginning of this year, I got the idea that it would be fun to tackle my Masters degree. For the longest time I had been considering going back to university – partly because I missed learning and partly because I had always seen myself as eventually having a Doctorate degree. I don’t actually know why this has always been a vision of my future, I just know that I have always wanted it. So I sat down with my husband and we worked out the feasibility of taking on more. To give some perspective, our son was born in June 2014 (so I’m a brand new mama) and the reality was that I was going to have to return to work (at least on a part-time basis) in May 2015. Yet even with two such huge changes happening, I just felt that this was the time, and I needed something that would make me feel like me again, and not just this person who had been lost to the new label of ‘mama’.
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