I am so happy for you WPM! that's so exciting! As for the site, I love Pokebeach. I've been here for almost 5 years, and I have enjoyed it. I'm not much of a forum person and I don't trade or battle with people here too much anymore (I mostly do it with people on other sites that aren't even Pokemon sites lol.) But, I love this site because of the amazing card galleries and the informative news posts. Without Pokebeach, I would not have known about special things and events like the exclusive offers for black and white at toys r us or all of the really cool TCG merch and pokemon wi-fi events. I just love how personal you are in your posts. You don't sound like an automatic robotic typing machine. I appreciate all the work you put into the site over the last 8 years.
However, I know school is imporant. I'm a college student myself and I currently work for two websites in what little spare time I get. So, I understand how time is tight and that grad school is going to be so important. I really hope that you can maintain the site as much as possible but without it interferring with your studies. I would hate to see the site be gone but if it is something that has to be done, even for a little while, it has to be done and i would understand 100%.
I have a suggestion; do you think that some of the super mods here can lend you a hand in updating the website when you are too busy to? Just a thought if you want to avoid shutting the site down.
Anyway, good luck in grad school! and if you do decide to make a live-action Pokemon movie and an Evangalion movie, they better be epic >D