<human>: Currently, I am an assistant to one of the VP's at my company. It is a full time job and my boss does rely on me for quite a lot. I am also awaiting acceptances from two separate grad schools. Which, if accepted (I will know in 3-4 weeks), I will begin in January and the schools are both just 15 minutes away from my job.

I made the decision to be honest with my boss about going to grad school from the beginning and he has been extremely supportive - he is probably one of my biggest supporters even when it comes to my personal life about this. And I've truly appreciated it.

But I am not sure if he expects me to remain full time or to leave the job. Personally, I would not be able to handle either of these situations. I would definitely like to stay at my job and do part time. Two other co-workers do part-time for personal and legitimate reasons. Yet I don't know my boss' opinion on this. Especially because he hasn't asked one question i.e. me going to school full-time or what my internship hours will look like.
So, really, what I'm asking is: if/when I'm accepted, how do I ask him to go part time at a 9-5 job? Do I offer taking less money? Do you think he'd let me go?

P.S. When I eventually do my internship, I will need to leave my job. It is 100 hours/semester and then two semesters of 300 hours. It would just be impossible to do my specific job on top of interning and that will come up in about a year or so.

Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?
<bot>: need to go part-time (32 hours/week or a little less) at my 9-5 office job when I go to grad school. how do I confront boss?