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The Battalion Page 3A • Thursday, October 3, 2002
Married, with classes
Married students experience the best and worst of matrimony and academia
By Denise Schoppe
THE BATTALION
On one hand there is the dress, the cake, the guests and “til
death do us part*’ - on the other there are professors, the papers,
studying and “we are the Aggies, the Aggies are we.”
Some students choose to get married while still enrolled in col
lege, however unconventional others may consider the situation.
Jennifer Putsche. a senior chemistry major, met her husband,
Richard Anderson, a senior industrial engineering major,
through a mutual friend two weeks into their freshman year.
“The friend was in my Physics 218 class, and was Richard’s
next door neighbor in Moore Hall. We all started studying and
doing Physics 218 homework together on a regular basis until
we all became such good friends that we couldn't manage to get
any studying done,” Putsche said.
The two got engaged on Feb. 1 of this year and were married
on May 18.
“It seems like quite a short time frame, but we had known for
quite a while that we wanted to be together.” Putsche said. “All
in all, it was about four years and nine months we had known
each other between meeting and getting married.”
For Putsche, marriage is a big responsibility that she and her
husband work hard to handle on their own.
“Once you’re married, every little thing becomes your
responsibility,” she said. “We no longer rely on parents for the
small things like groceries and things like that. On that same
track, we’re totally responsible for paying our bills, rent and
keeping track of everything ourselves.”
To handle it all, the couple gives up a lot of the things they
had before getting married, such as spending time together.
“Between classes and making ends meet, there is little free
time,” Putsche said. “The little time we have together may not
be ideal time. For an exampJe, after I’ve been at school from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m., and then work from 5 p.m. to 1 1:30 p.m.. 1 see
my spouse for maybe an hour in the day.”
All of this time divided between work and school can leave a
person physically and mentally exhausted.
“Even though we don’t see much of each other some days,
the little time we have together is very valuable, and caring
about each other becomes much more important than the con
venience of picking times according to mood and energy,”
Putsche said.
When fellow students and professors learn she chose to
marry before graduating, Putsche said those people are usually
surprised. Otherwise, she describes herself and her husband as
“just your usual undergraduates,” but said there are some defi
nite advantages to getting married.
One advantage, she said, is living with the one you love with
out the social stigma of premarital cohabitation.
“I personally know a few students who pretty much just use
their dorm as a storage area (and) home base while on
campus, and spend all their time and nights at their sig
nificant other’s place of residence; people and par
ents would always question whether they would get
to spend time with one of us alone,” Putsche
said. “But when you get married, it becomes
expected and socially acceptable to spend all
your time with your spouse.”
Brad Maples, a senior civil engineering
major, and his wife Kimberly Maples, a
senior elementary education major, had
been dating since high school when they
got married in June of 2001.
Brad said their situation is tough, but
they make it work.
“We are both working to put ourselves
through school, so we don't have a lot of
time, sometimes,” he said. “Our family
lives about two and a half hours away, so
we're pretty much on our own.”
Putsche and Maples said although they
themselves are married, they are not unlike
other students.
“None of my friends are married, but we all
still hang out as we did before,” Maples said.
The married life isn’t for. Some students
can’t even imagine being wed while still in
college.
“It’s not for me, but if they find the
right person, I think it’s great,”
Lindsey Vaculin, a senior agricul
tural journalism major, said. “If
it were me. I’d choose to wait
until after I graduate. 1 can’t
imagine the responsibility of tak
ing care of someone else as well
as myself.”
Maples said there is one more advantage to married life.
“It’s kind of nice, also, that you have someone all the time
for support,” he said.
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