<p>D2 has a summer internship at NINDS in Bethesda, MD.</p>
<p>She (and I) have some questions. I know the NIH doesn't arrange housing for the interns, so where do the interns live? I mean what part of the Washington area? </p>
<p>D2 has a car, but it's on the other side of the US and thus not likely to make the trip East. So she'll need some locations that have access to public transit to Bethesda. </p>
<p>She'd also prefer something that is fun and safe. And too expensive. Alot to ask, I know, But we could use some suggestions about where to start looking.</p>
<p>American University has open summer housing in its dorms. Right near the Tenleytown Metro station (two stops from Bethesda). It is a popular option for kids doing Washington internships. Do you know how far D’s job is from the Bethesda Metro Station?</p>
<p>You could also contact the AU housing office regarding apartment sublets near the campus.</p>
<p>I assume NINDS is on the main NIH campus on Wisconsin Avenue/Rockville Pike? There’s a Metro stop (Red Line) right there. I’d say she should look anywhere along the Metro Red Line in Northwest DC. Campus housing at American U is a good suggestion, very convenient to Bethesda and NIH but also good Metro and/or bus access to livelier and more interesting neighborhoods in the District (e.g., Dupont Circle, Georgetown). There may also be summer sublets available in student apartments. I’d keep an eye on craigslist which has a separate listing for summer sublets. Some of the nearby colleges–American, Georgetown, and George Washington would be the most convenient—may also have some kind of service where students can post summer sublets.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your DD for getting a summer internship. When did she submit her application? Did she contact investigators (researchers) first? Drat, me thinks my son is too late.</p>
<p>D2 applied over winter break, had her applications completed, her transcripts sent and her LORs in well before the end of January. </p>
<p>(She’s also applied to several REUs and 6 Amgen fellowships. She was accepted to one of the REUs yesterday, as well as at NINDS today. No word from any of the others yet.)</p>
<p>She did email about 6 or 7 PIs at NIH/NINDS in mid January and had instant rejections from 4 of them. </p>
<p>The position she’s been offered is with someone she didn’t contact, but who does fMRI brain imaging studies on humans. (D2 has been doing fMRI studies on humans for 2+ years now and can read fMRIs better than her PI’s grad students. So I’m sure that was probably a big factor in her getting the offer.)</p>
<p>And while late, you might check. Although several of the programs D2 applied to had Feb 15th application deadlines, NIH SIP doesn’t close its application until March 1. If he hurries, he can still make it.</p>
<p>Thanks WOWM. I’m such a newbie to this process that I don’t even know what a REU is, or the Amgen fellowship (is PI = private investigator?) Yikes, I have a lot to learn. </p>
<p>Is your daughter in her junior year? How did she get such wonderful experience in the first place?</p>
<p>American U. is a great option because she can walk to the Red Line (Metro) Georgetown is not convenient to the Metro, but you can take a bus to the Red Line. Anything in the Friendship Heights, MD area or out by White Flint Mall would be convenient to the Red Line and not too long a Metro ride.</p>
<p>She should contact the PI she will be working with, and find out if anyone in his/her group has good ideas for her. One of them may be short a roommate for the summer. Here is the link to the NIH Recreation Assoc. Housing site: [Recreation</a> and Welfare Association of the National Institutes of Health](<a href=“SLOT138: Daftar Situs Judi Slot Gacor Online Pragmatic Play”>http://www.recgov.org/housing/housing.html) She can read through that list and see if anything will work for her.</p>
<p>Everyone I know who has ever worked in a lab at the NIH has kept horrible hours. Happydad used to return on the last Metro five or six nights a week. She does not want to live anywhere that she can’t get to and from safely at midnight (or later). Something right on the Red Line, is probably best. Driving in this area is not for the faint-hearted. If she plans to bring a car, she may still want to take public transportation to her lab each day, and just keep the car for fun stuff or the days that she knows she is going to be very late.</p>
<p>All of that said, she is going to have a great time! There is a lot to do around here, and there is nowhere else for research quite like the NIH!</p>
<p>I don’t think she wants to be further out on the Red Line than the NIH stop. Once you get to White Flint, Twinbrook, etc., that is really not a fun/hopping place for college students AT ALL. Very suburban family/strip mall ethos. Some young professionals live around Grosvenor at the Parkside development but I honestly don’t know what they do for fun.</p>
<p>She should sublet somewhere further down the red line and do the reverse commute.</p>
<p>Before doing anything else, she should verify that the place where she will be working is on the main NIH campus.</p>
<p>Not all of NIH is on the main campus because not all of NIH will fit. The entire National Cancer Institute, for example, is elsewhere.</p>
<p>If she is on the main campus, which has its own Metro stop, another housing option might be George Washington University, which also has a Metro stop (Foggy Bottom). GWU rents out dorm rooms to student interns in the summer. But GWU is not on the Red Line, so she would have to change trains – which adds substantially to the length of time she would spend commuting.</p>
<p>Yes, but it’s not bad. Using the WMATA trip planner, it looks like it’s about a 25-30 trip from the Foggy Bottom/GWU station to the Medical Center/NIH station with a change at Metro Center during the morning and evening rush. The GW area might be more interesting for a college student on a summer internship than the American University/Tenleytown area. There’s some stuff right in the GW area, and it’s easy walking distance to Dupont Circle, Georgetown, downtown DC, Rock Creek Park, and the Mall with all those free museums.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the suggestions. Esp the suggestions to look at college housing. </p>
<p>Happymom–thanks for the links. Very useful. Although my late husband grew up in metro DC, I’ve only been to DC a few times a very, very long time ago and everything I used to know is decades out of date.</p>
<p>D thinks she may know some people from her school who are/will be interning at various federal agencies so that’s another place to start asking. Who knows maybe one of them needs a roommate?</p>
<p>Her lab is in Bldg 10 on the main NIH campus so she will actually be in Bethesda and not one of the other campuses.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I forgot this, but one of her best sources for help/advice will be the alumni of her home university who are now living/working in the DC area. She needs to pop by the alumni office and find out how to contact them. Most sizable institutions have alumni clubs in the DC area, and often the more recent graduates have joint clubs/activities with recent grads of peer institutions. About this time every year, I get an email from my alum organization asking whether I know of anyone who can help undergrads find places to live while they are here for summer internships.</p>
<p>There are a lot of group houses in Georgetown which are popular with summer interns. The area around AU may be a little cheaper, but the GWU/Georgetown area is more popular. </p>
<p>Expect that housing will be expensive. DH sublet a studio at 25th St. between Pennsylvania & M St. (halfway between Foggy Bottom and Dupont Circle Metro stations) in the summer of 1988 for $595/mo. and we considered ourselves lucky to have found something so reasonable. He was a 2L and I would commute down from Philly on the weekends. We have kicked ourselves repeatedly for not buying an apt. in that building back then – the studio next door was going for $39,900. There’s currently a 612 sq. ft. 1BR going for $335,000.</p>