San Diego State University - Del Sudoeste Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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'Pl' The graduate Student Carolynn Reynolds, 24 Graduate, Counselor Education San Diego, California Before Carolynn started her graduate work, she was teaching school in Boston. Then her husband, a civil engineer presently in the Air Force, went overseas. So Carolynn came back to San Diego to be near relatives and went back to school at her alma mater, San Diego State. When her husband returns, he will be stationed in New Mexico, so Carolynn has applied for the Ph.D. education program at the University of New Mexico. If that doesn't work out, she said she will probably teach elementary school or counsel students in an Albu- querque high school. Although Carolynn is carrying 19 units, she still finds time to work at the HELP Center on campus. She said the Human Emergency Living Problems, a new organization, is similar to the Crisis Program of San Diego. She counsels students who have emotional problems, and advises students on abortions, etc. She also does counselling in the Counsellor Education Center on campus. Carolynn said she finds graduate studies very much different than her undergraduate work. For one thing, the professors are a lot easier to reach, she said. They are more informal and resource- ful with graduate students. There is more responsibility placed on the students, too. Professors take over more with undergraduates. We govern ourselves and choose. The classes are small and are divided into sub-groups, so there is more interaction between us. The Counselling Education Department is most helpful, she said. The professors are wonderful - the students are great people. There is more opportunity to do personal evaluations of ourselves and do group work. lt's a marvelous experience. lt's a close-knit de- partment with many parties and other social events. The Education Department is exceptionally good on the graduate level. The maior concern with the graduate students is trying to work and go to school, she said. Most of us are married and our career goals are of prime importance. We're concerned about what we're going to do. There are too many teachers coming out of the depart- ment with no iobs available here for us. So we're interested now in getting Ph.D.'s. With a Ph.D., it's not necessarily easier to get a iob, but the working conditions are better with one. Carolynn concluded: The life of a graduate student is hard and busy. l try to keep up with all my studies, do counselling work, man- age to keep my apartment clean, and my car in running condition. That's about all I have time for.

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