<p>I am a senior in high school and I'm wondering how college students do internships while taking classes (scheduling wise) and what kind of things you do at internships. I will be attending college in Washington D.C. next year and I hear that there are some incredible internship opportunities, I'm just wondering how college kids have time.<br>
Thanks</p>
<p>Well, there’s summer internships that are only during summer. </p>
<p>It’s just like how kids in high school have part-time jobs. It’s exactly the same. Instead of using 40 hours a week for school, you use 60 hours for school and a part-time internship.</p>
<p>You have much less classtime hours during college than you did during high school. So scheduling-wise, it’s often easier to have an internship or part-time job than it is in high school. You also have some control (depending on a lot of different factors, but moreso than you do in high school) over what your schedule will look like. You could take a couple of classes in the morning and than work all afternoon or vice versa. You could also make your schedule so that most of your classes or TuTh or MWF so that you have could intern/work/do research on the days when you don’t have class.</p>
<p>Many students also have internships or other work/research experiences over the summer so that you can work full time. There’s a lot more you can do when you don’t have classes, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do something during the school year if you want to. You’ll figure out what works for you when you get to college.</p>
<p>Sometimes your classes even allow for internships. For example, the capstone course for my major is a 4 credit “online” class that actually doesn’t operate like a regular class with due dates and such. We have to get an internship, work there x amount of hours a week (usually between 10 and 15 from what I’ve heard), and then compose a port folio throughout the semester to submit at the end (one person who did hers this semester turned in a 78 page Word document for hers).</p>
<p>So, that’s definitely a lot of work, but it helps that you get class credit for it and only have either 2 or 3 other classes at the same time. And, like the others have mentioned, you can always do summer internships to space things out </p>
<p>A lot of the bigger internships are only during the summer, so they don’t necessarily conflict with school schedules at all. A lot of internships during the regular semesters can be taken for college credit, so they would essentially take the place of a course, at least in some sense. </p>
<p>I only did one undergrad internship (though I worked full time at places other people interned at lol). Mine was 10-15 hours/week unpaid working for a Senator. </p>
<p>You just schedule your internship around your classes if doing it during the school year. They know that their students have other obligations and will almost always be extremely flexible. </p>
<p>I’ve only had a summer internship, so I didn’t have classes. </p>
<p>However, one of my friends had a manufacturing internship full time while taking 9 credits. She had 6 credits online and took one class TR 4:30-5:45. So she would work 6-3:30 M-F and then work on her online classes or if it was TR go to class. So it’s possible. She took 2 electives and a major class that semester. </p>
<p>I go to school in dc also and while I haven’t had an internship I know a lot of people who have. One of my friends interned for Rand Paul, and it’s was just after his classes and he just made sure his classes ended with enough time for him to get there. So it’s rally just a scheduling thing, but while he said most of the work wasn’t anything hard it was a good amount of work and might not be for everyone during the semester. Like I’m a huge procrastinator so I know it be a stretch for me to intern after class and stay on top of things.</p>