Grad School & Family See-Saw

Which gets more attention: your studies or your family? Trick question? Your professors expect that your studies come first, whereas your family - especially your children rightly expect that they come first. Can you ever really balance work and family? There are countless tomes written on the challenge of juggling career and family, but this first person article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, written by a graduate student who is in this predicament illustrates the fleeting nature of "balance." Also see Surviving Graduate School