<p>I have a summer internship in Rockville, MD.</p>
<p>Where does one find summer housing that is not rediculously expensive? (College student + unpaid internship = need something cheap!)
I could use some suggestions.</p>
<p>I was going to ask the same question, but about Baltimore area. Son will be working in Aberdeen and fiance in Washington. Craigslist didn’t look very helpful. Need it from May - August</p>
<p>1) Through local alumni of your college/university, the families of current students, and the person from your college/university who did an internship like this last year.</p>
<p>2) Through the people at the lab/office/institution where you are doing the internship.</p>
<p>3) Through the NIH Recreation Association housing list [Recreation</a> and Welfare Association of the National Institutes of Health](<a href=“SLOT138: Daftar Situs Judi Slot Gacor Online Pragmatic Play”>SLOT138: Daftar Situs Judi Slot Gacor Online Pragmatic Play)</p>
<p>4) Ads at [The</a> Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com%5DThe”>http://www.washingtonpost.com) and at [Gazette.net</a> Maryland Community News](<a href=“http://gazette.net/montgomery/]Gazette.net”>http://gazette.net/montgomery/)</p>
<p>5) Craig’s list.</p>
<p>6) Any family connections such as your old scout troop leader’s aunt’s church lady pals.</p>
<p>PM rockville mom…she may be able to give you some good info…</p>
<p>My D is in NIH SIP this year at NIDA located in Hopkins Bay View Campus. She is 17 and looking for a place to stay for 8 weeks close to campus. Anyone can help?</p>
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<li> I think summer housing in Rockville is going to be a tough nut to crack. Rockville isn’t the kind of place that has a lot of subletting and seasonal turnover, like a university town. It’s the kind of place where you live so you can send your kids to the public schools. I can’t think of a better place to start than by asking at NIH, though.</li>
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<p>If I were young and single, I’m not sure I’d want to live in Rockville anyway. I’d probably want to be in DC near the red line and commute backwards.</p>
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<li> In Baltimore, I’d look for summer housing in Charles Village, near the Homewood campus of JHU. In fact, I did live there in a summer sublet between college and grad school during the summer of…oh, wow, that was a long time ago.</li>
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<p>I’d look for listings of sublets in the housing office at JHU.</p>
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<li> Near Bayview? Really? Seventeen? I have no good suggestion for this. During the aforementioned summer in Charles Village, I worked at the Bayview campus (it was called the Francis Scott Key Medical Center at the time). It’s not easy to get from Charles Village to Bayview without a car. And while I wouldn’t really want my 17-year-old to live in Charles Village for the summer, I’d agree to that many times over before I’d let her live on her own (meaning, away from her parents) in Highlandtown. At least when I was in Baltimore City, it just wasn’t a neighborhood where an inexperienced 17-year-old should have been learning to fly on her own, nor was it a neighborhood where she would have had any fun doing it. And it wasn’t a neighborhood where there were any young people doing that. The young people beginning their lives away from their parents were near Hopkins’ Homewood Campus, or near Loyola.</li>
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<p>I am sorry if I am stoking any parental anxiety. It would agitate the bejeesus out of me to read what I’ve just written. But this is a plan that would really give me pause.</p>
<p>(Oops! I just noticed that all the discussion of Rockville and Baltimore is pretty old by now. Sorry. I do hope those housing issues are resolved.)</p>
<p>thanks Sikorsky: Do you think it will be safe for her to commute? I did visit and the NIDA campus appeared from the outside very secure at all times with major military/homeland security presence around the building. She does get secure parking in the campus. So, we are thinking that she could stay somewhere within commute distance. Do you know if this is viable? Apparently there is housing for JHU medical residents at Bay View and that can be rented. But again I did not like you said want 17 yr old to live there by herself.</p>
<p>Oh, also, she is a new driver. So, this is even more reason to ask about the commute. I know historically, Bay View used to be quite run down until JHU took over and converted a lot of the property into their space. NIDA is next door to Bay View, but is indeed pretty new buildings. She is doing research on drug abuse with a pretty high profile scientist and as a 11th grader thrilled to have the opportunity. But indeed your post is churning my gut now thinking of high risky this whole thing is going to be.</p>
<p>The ARC was there when I was on the Bayview campus (well, FSK campus) all those years ago.</p>
<p>The problem for me isn’t so much Bayview as it is Highlandtown and Dundalk. And those aren’t really crime-infested parts of Baltimore. They’re just…I don’t know…not very hospitable to the kind of fledgling experience you’re talking about.</p>
<p>But if she can rent JHU-affiliated housing on or adjacent to the Bayview campus for the summer, that removes most of my objections. I thought you were inquiring about her living in the neighborhood, on the local economy, so to speak.</p>
<p>As for the new-driver thing: just how long has she had her license, and where? Driving for a few months in Ottumwa, Iowa, wouldn’t prepare you to operate a car in Baltimore in the same way that driving in Philadelphia might.</p>
<p>Thanks Sikorsky: I do plan to go with her and stay there for a week and make sure that she is a safe driver on the beltway/JHU main campus area. She has been driving for 6 months and although not Philly experience, it is pretty similar and she has put in several 100 miles on interstates and in the inner city. I still have the lump in my throat and my gut is still queezy thinking about the whole thing. But, when you have a teen set on what she wants to do, I am not sure I can really stand in the way especially when what she wants to do is quite good for her academically. Any other advice on how to make this a safe experience for her would be highly appreciated.</p>
<p>There are certainly cities where driving is more difficult than in Baltimore. I’d rather drive in Baltimore than in Washington, New York or Los Angeles. (And I do drive several times a year in Baltimore, NYC and Washington.) Of course, those are all larger metro areas than Charm City.</p>
<p>And in the area around Bayview, the traffic does not represent the worst of Baltimore. If she gets on I-95, that can be pretty trafficky around the Eastern Avenue exit, but mostly Highland and Dundalk are urban neighborhood traffic, and not urban commuter traffic.</p>
<p>Thank you again. I will try and post our experience once we go there next week. I hope to get her a room-mate who is a bit more mature and has some experience in the area or we will find a way to get her a place near the main campus of JHU and commute from there. Let me know if you have other thoughts.</p>
<p>Best of luck to you both.</p>