Article June 10, 1972 Issue

Graduate School: Learning to Swim

JULIA ANN WALKER

Are you in graduate school? Do you sometimes find the going rough? I did. I found that I faced three major challenges: 1. The academic pace was rigorous. 2. Finances were low. 3. It was a lonely life.

Although not all graduate students have trouble with these things, they are common enough, even though many feel that their academic growth is well worth the pain. However, when a person applies Christian Science to solve his problems, he ends up with more than an academic degree. He makes great spiritual progress, too. And how rewarding it is to prove that man, the reflection of God, is ever at one with God and His abundant goodness!

A couple of years after I graduated from college, I was offered a one-year stipend while attending graduate school to study mathematics. I had always liked math and done well in it, but in the two years since I had graduated, I had scarcely opened a math book and, of course, had forgotten a great deal. For two months before school started, I spent part of each day boning up.

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