<p>Just got notified today that I've been chosen for a summer Senate page slot. Ahh, two weeks in DC...it's going to be incredible.</p>
<p>Anyone else chosen?? I'd love to make friends before hand!</p>
<p>2 weeks? I thought it was for like 4 months? Lucky you, though!</p>
<p>Well, the summer sessions are just for two weeks. I'd love to go to one of the actual schooltime ones, but I'll take what I can get!!</p>
<p>only 2 weeks this year? that's a bummer...i was a house page, and we stayed 3. the senate pages stayed 3 weeks (first session) and 4 weeks (second session) last year! still, it'll be an amazing two weeks!!!</p>
<p>remember: house pages rule :-)</p>
<p>hmm
hopefully i'll be interning with a congressman this summer for a few weeks
their last email to me ended in an exclamation point haha, but that's all i have to go on for now >_></p>
<p>anyone know if there's some way i can get in on the housing offered to pages? i mean i am a junior interning with a congressman on the hill so it's basically the same thing right?</p>
<p>I was too late to apply for the summer page program, so I might apply next year. </p>
<p>Has anyone here done the semester page program during the school year? I'm interested but it may be detrimental leaving for 1/2 of junior year...</p>
<p>procrastiNate: no, the page program is completely different from the internship program. I'm almost 100% sure that you can't live with the pages. Pages have specific work hours, specific duties and specific qualifications. They do a background check to make sure the kids check out, and the rules of the PRH (page residence hall) are pretty strict. They keep REALLY close track of the pages (like if you don't sign in for an hour after you're supposed to, they call capitol hill police...happened to me haha) so I assume there's a liability issue. It's likely that interns also keep different hours.<br>
What I would do is call up George Washington U, American U and Georgetown U. I know at least a couple of those schools offer summer housing for interns in the dorms. They're all in relatively nice areas of DC, and probably wouldn't be that expensive. You also wouldn't have to deal with the restrictive aspects of page life (twice-weekly room inspections, 10 PM weeknight curfew, etc.)</p>
<p>yeah i looked into colleges in the dc area a while back but they all require that summer intern dormers are 18</p>
<p>and thank god i didn't apply to be a page if it's that restrictive</p>