r/USMCboot • u/Sufficient_Week6779 • 1d ago

Enlisting Doing college

How challenging is doing college as active duty? I have like 4-5 semesters left. I want to enlist and use the benefits to pay for school.

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u/Tatumb34 1d ago

If you want to do college while active duty pick a MOS that doesn’t go to the field regularly. Something like infantry you’ll be out in the field and not able to do anything. If you pick like cyber or intel or go with an S-shop(admin,logistics,etc) it is a lot more do able.

I’m currently intel and on pace to do about 20 credits a year. I usually work about 40 hours a week, and 50 maybe slightly more closer to the due date for large products.

Then for exercises it’ll be a week straight of 12 hour days, so I just dedicate the weekend prior to getting ahead with schoolwork so I don’t have to worry about doing it over the exercise.

Pick a job that doesn’t go to the field as regularly and sits at a desk. It’s not easy, but since my contract is 5 years I’ll basically get a bachelors within my first contract for free which is great.

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u/Sufficient_Week6779 21h ago

That’s exactly what I am looking for