I know in order to do well in the classes I sign up for that I need to spend the needed time to complete the work, but it's been super difficult for me and balancing time with my wife and kids and my work.
I really wish they could launch more self-paced options for the courses, rather than keeping strictly to their on campus semester schedule. To stay active in the program I have to keep on signing up for classes, but then end up dropping them over the past few semesters.
On the one hand I want the masters degree, but on the other hand it's difficult to force myself to stay motivated and interested in the classes since not all of them are fun/enjoyable (or allow for the time to learn in a more self-paced manner).
I'm also not a big fan of online testing / proctoring...I would rather just complete projects ideally.
There've been other students that have been successful in the program even with full-time work, signficant others, and children in the mix, but those first few years in the program were definitely a sacrifice personally and it's been difficult to continue with that same level of sacrifice since the end of 2017 for me personally (hence my wish for a more self-paced option where I could accelerate/decelerate my own progress since the tie to the regular semesters really slows down my ability to make progress as someone that has difficult fully dedicating the time regularly now).