Bringing The Family To B-school

摘要

Libby Smith toured Emory University's Goizueta Business School when she was pregnant and arrived on the Atlanta campus this fall with her six-month-old baby, Jackson, in tow. In between changing diapers and playing with her son, she juggled schoolwork, an internship search, and a long-rndistance relationship with her husband, Rob, an army operations officer stationed two hours away at Fort Benning. Says Smith: "It's been harder than I thought it would be."rnNow a new worry is surfacing. With her husband's stint in the military set to end in six months, the couple, who recently purchased a home in the Atlanta area, soon won't have a paycheck coming in unless Rob finds a job fast-no mean feat in a crumbling economy. With mortgage payments to meet and loom-rning student loans, Smith has taken to "living a little cheaper," clipping coupons and buying supermarket -brand paper towels instead of Brawny. Though she has a summer internship at consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, Smith, 29, is wary of the future. "It's stressful to think that nothing is guaranteed anymore," she says.