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Tickets $2.30 in advance and
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College with kids
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Student parents must learn to juggle classes, work and child can
By Shea Wiggins
The Battalion
C lasses, quizzes, exams, group
projects, readings, presenta
tions, activities and jobs cre
ate enough worry to satisfy even the
most self-destructive student. Add
feeding times, diaper changes,
pacifiers, child care and late-night
hall paces into the equation and the
mission seems impossible.
But many student parents at
Texas A&M juggle the demands of
college life with the joys of par
enthood.
Jennifer Stewart, a senior educa
tion major, said she and her hus
band Alan, a junior industrial engi
neering major, scheduled their
classes around each other to care
for their 20-month-old son, Caleb.
“This is a 24 hour-a-day, seven
day-a-week type thing,” Jennifer
Stewart said. “You can go home
from school or a job and be done for
the day, but I can’t do that.”
She said she once took Caleb to
a political science class in an
emergency.
“He was between six and nine
months old, and I sat in the front
row,” Jennifer Stewart said. “All of
the sudden it was feeding time and
he needed his bottle. The professor
joked, though, and said Caleb paid
more attention in class than every
one else.”
Alan Stewart said he stopped all
school activities when he started a
family.
“I did a lot, and then I just quit,”
Alan Stewart said. “But I like to be in
charge and do things, so now I am
more involved than ever.”
He is co-chair of the CEO ’97 Ca
reer Fair and treasurer for Alpha Pi
Mu, but said it fits his personality to
be married and have a family.
Lora Hagman, a senior manage
ment major, said family members
in the Bryan-College Station area
help care for her son, Braden, while
she attends classes and works.
“I have taken him to work a lot,
and he just plays on the type
writer,” Hagman said. “I also took
him to many group project meet
ings, because they are usually in
the evenings.”
Hagman said she had no aspira
tion to be a career woman before
she had her son.
“If I had a college degree, I could
take care of him better,” Hagman
said. “In today’s world, if you don’t
have a college degree, you can’t go
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Students Jennifer and Alan Stewart take a break from their busy schedules to spend time with their sonCalft
anywhere in life.”
Hagman has worked on and off
while pursuing her degree, and will
graduate in May.
Four-year-old Braden said he
enjoyed going with his mom to stu
dent activities “just fine.”
Gina Hickson, a senior finance
major, and Reed Hickson, a junior
sports management major and a
member of the A&M rugby team,
said they were surprised to see how
responsive their friends were to
their daughter, Kayla.
“So many guys on the rugby
team want to babysit, and that was
a shocker,” Reed Hickson said.
“They always say to me, ‘You can’t
come on our away trip unless you
bring Kayla.’”
Reed Hickson said students in
his classes respond with admiration
when he explains he is a student,
husband and father.
“I think A&M is special in that
way,” Reed Hickson said. “It is a
conservative school, and people
will take time out for you.”
Gina Hickson worked until two
weeks before Kayla was born and
maintained nearly all As, with only
one B in her college career.
“I made a B in the class I had
during the summer when 1 found
out I was pregnant,” Gina Hickson
said. “I had morning sickness on
the morning of the final, and I only
missed an A by one-fourth of a
point.”
She said it is hard to balance be
ing a mom, wife and student
“The first hour I was awayfa
her I felt guilty,” Gina Hickson:
"I thought I had to be withfe
hours a day and study and kfi
grades up.”
She said student parenthoo [
mands a constant, planned
flexible schedule.
“When Kayla was on a two-Irf
feeding schedule, Reed had toco!
by my classes so I could nurserj
and then go back to class,” G
Hickson said.
She said Kayla’s birth gave he
natural high.
“You can have the worst day,
one smile from her makesyoui
better,” Gina Hickson said.
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