In Masters level, typically, if you take 6 credits or less your status is considered part time. If you take 9 or more credit hours, then it is considered full time. It does not matter how many courses you take, what counts is the number of credit hours.
Pastrami is a smoked corned beef. If you buy corned beef you can make your own pastrami any afternoon. Of course, you can make your own Homemade Corned Beef if you have 3 weeks to let it cure.
Pastrami is made by smoking corned beef. The process of smoking adds flavor to the meat. Corned beef is made by soaking beef brisket in a salty brine, along with sugar and spices, for several weeks. Before the invention of refrigeration, soaking a meat in brine was one of the two methods for preventing meat from spoiling.