I’m currently applying for internships at multiple law firms (i.e. asking law firms if they’ll let me answer phone calls for them for free.) I’m interviewing at one next week which is great and awful at the same exact time. I am the most awkward person on Earth. If all of my colleges required interviews (and not just Harvard), I would’ve been rejected from the whole gamut. lol. I act like someone who just heard what social interaction was second hand three days ago and decided to give it their best shot.
I have an internship interview this week as well. It’s with the public works department in my hometown. Not exactly the place I want to work for (I’d much rather work for a consulting firm like Burns & McDonnell or Black & Veatch), but they are open to hiring freshmen which is a plus.
I was really nervous about it, but got some good advice from a friend the other day. He said if you go in nervous you will not get it. But if you have an attitude more along the lines of “Bitches, you better give YOURSELF the privilege of hiring me!” you will het it undoubtedly. So I’m going to run with that advice and hope it works, haha. Thankfully, I am an engineering major so my competition will be just as socially awkward for the most part, lmao.
The concept of an unpaid internship is totally foreign to me. I am so grateful that internships in my field are paid (and paid well). Otherwise I would have to work at a job outside my field instead because I need to save money so I can afford rent next year.
The problem with the internships I’m applying for is that they’re in really hyper competitive/saturated fields (law and government) – there are a lot of Pol Sci graduates and JDs looking for summer employment themselves so they take up all the paid work and then all the lowly frosh are left to pick from whatever is left.
I applied for some local government work that’s paid - mostly working in low income neighborhoods in Boston. Stuff about education reform and all that noise. It’d be cool to get that. Working for money seems like something I can groove with.
I decided to not go through with internships this summer – honestly, it’s a better decision for me in retrospect. I am pretty much having a mental breakdown because math. And also I have a bit less than a month of school left. Not a great time especially since I hear all kinds of stories about tech interviews. And on that topic, I don’t even know if I’ll be able to be a CS major – they’re changing the major GPA requirement from 3.0 to 3.3. Maybe this sounds low, but honestly, I was thinking if I got a 3.0 I’d be happy.
I have to take one more quiz in one of my online classes this week, and then I am officially done with that class. My final speech for my speech class is on Thursday, and then I am done with that class.
I was only supposed to have one final during finals week, which I was dreading because it was scheduled for 8 am on the Monday of the first day of finals, but my prof decided to have us take the exam on the last day of class; therefore, I do not have to drive to campus during finals week. My last day of the semester is April 30th! I can’t believe it.
I have three finals - all cumulative. Two of them are at night (kill me now, please) and the other is in the afternoon. I am exempt from one of my finals and we have an in class project for the other.
I’ve decided that next semester I am switching over to notebooks and folders. Amazon has some fancy multi pocket folders and I am going to use one/two pockets for each class and different colored notebooks for each; I’m using notebooks for half of my classes this semester and it has literally been life changing. I am a full on notebook convert. To hell with binders, I tell you, to hell!
I have two finals, a final essay, juries (x2), piano studio recital, and a final composition. We also have eartraining that apparently was supposed to be done by tomorrow (oops), but our prof is super chill, so he wont care. I’m really not looking forward to the fact that my math final is from 7-10 pm on Friday May 1st. Other than those, I only have one more CS lab, a reading reflection, a blog post, and a sequence composition exercise left, then I’m done with my coursework!
My finals aren’t until mid-late May :s
@Vctory Same. 
Mine are 2nd week of May.
Besides my three final exams (I’ve got 2 on the same day, dunno how I’m going to eat… but at least I don’t have all on the same day, that would just be awful), I have 2 more homeworks in Linguistics, 2 homeworks (merged into 1! WTF do they want to kill us) + 2 labs + 1 quiz in CS, 2 more problem sets + 2 more quizzes in Math. Basically, there are two more weeks of material, then 1 dead week and then the finals. I don’t mind night finals – but my math final is from 8-11 AM! Ugh… I can’t do math at that hour.
I’m already done except for one final and one paper, thank you NEU and 4 month semesters. Though summer classes start right up in mid May.
@quidditchcat 3.3 CS requirement is insane. While I think it does show a difference in levels above and below which is probably the logic, people struggle all the time in CS and improve, especially in the early years. 3.3 sounds ridiculous. 3.0 is at least reasonable. At my school, scholarship is 3.0 and the department is surely lower than that.
@PengsPhils - Is Northeastern’s abbreviation actually NEU? Because I’ve seen it as NEU, NeU, and NU - which seems to be the most used?
@guineagirl96 - a final from 7-10 pm on a Friday sounds terrible! I thought that schools never did that.
I think NEU is the most used on CC, second to NU. I think NU is the school’s choice. The for sure not used one would be NeU. Some people consider Northwestern NU hence the E I think.
The school does use NU for a lot of its punny branding (aka reNU = recycling).
Addition: The website and most of the online stuff uses NEU. So it seems the school uses both NEU and NU.
@PengsPhils yeah… although from what I’m hearing it seems like the incoming freshman will have that requirement applied to them, but not current students. But it’s not made official yet. But gahhh, it’s because there’s so much hype around CS.
@quidditchcat I guess it makes sense but it sounds like a better option would be making the program more selective instead of making it harder to stay in. No one benefits from getting kicked out for B’s in a tough major only to be replaced by someone else who may suffer the same fate. Like that really irks me. A straight B CS student would not be allowed in your program. I know there is a true significant difference between a top programmer and an average programmer, but it doesn’t mean you only allow top programmers…
Just took my final exam in my online psych class, and I got a 100%! I have a 94 in the class, which is an A on that grading scale. I also finished up in my online science class with a 97! Now, I just have to finish my three on-campus classes.
I like that feeling when your grade is high enough in a class that you can bomb an exam and still walk away with an A. I ended up getting higher than a 100% on all of my midterms (not by much - between 102 and 130%) which gives me a little more wiggling room for finals but basically I have three final exams (and a final project)
the LOWEST grade on the final I can get in the following will let me keep an A in the class:
Honors Seminar: 60%
Religious Studies courses: 69% and 70% respectively
Calculus: 55% 
( I ended up getting a 130 on an exam because of a generous curve since most of the class failed, lol)
I mean, obviously I’m gonna aim a little higher than that but it’s gonna make finals week a lot less stressful knowing that I don’t have to necessarily get an A, I just have to not screw it up completely.
See, I have the opposite problem. I have an A-/B+ in most of my classes, so I calculated what I need to get an A.
For my first year seminar, I need an 86% on my final paper which is gonna be difficult, but only a 53% to maintain a B in the class. Math I need approx a 90%, which should be doable assuming there’s a curve (I got a 100 and a 104 on the tests). CS Im worried about because even if I get a 95% on the final it may not be enough to pull off an A because the professors are really picky with their grading. I have no clue what I need on my final composition for music theory, but its out of 250 pts and there are 50 pts possible extra credit on it, so Im not too worried about that class.