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lichte94
Fri, 20 May 2016 19:43:25 +0000

@HereToTransferr - workload was about the same for first-year classes and some second-year classes, but junior level classes that are 3000/4000 are definitely more rigorous than AP classes. I was in Business/Communication and I would say I wrote more essays and did more problem sets in my upper-level classes than in any AP Econ or AP English class I took.

I was a research assistant in the Comm department. It can be as easy as having a good relationship with a professor to as competitive as interviewing. There are lots of different labs and programs on campus. If you just want to join a professor’s project, that’s pretty easy. If you want to join a specific lab then you may have to apply as they only have a certain number of spots. If you want to do your own, you will have to get an advisor and a grant - people do it and there are a lot of resources in each undergrad college to help with the process.

I can’t speak to CHE because I was in CALS. I had zero work experience and only did extracurriculars (one of which was the student paper), and that was good enough to land me a chill paid internship my freshman summer and a corporate internship my sophomore summer. I will say that as you get older, internships are kind of expected, so definitely try to join clubs early on to build experience and have an internship before the start of your junior year. Also, even an 8-10 on-campus job/tutor position/teaching assistant position can definitely help when you are searching for internships. Overall, a lot of places will be lenient when you’re an underclassman, they just look for good work ethic, ambition, and professionalism.