Have you ever interned somewhere?

No but my daughter has. Interned for Neil Abercumbie and for two judges, one of which is a state supreme court judge.

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Oh yes, numerous different organizations. My last one I actually got paid for, but the two prior to that I just received credit hours for it like a normal class. Its actually not that bad of a deal at KU. You get 1 credit hour of upper division credit for every hundred hours you intern.

It was a little bit different for grad school credit. I got 3 hours for the entire summer.

Yeah I'm doing this one to add to my resume before grad school and then I'll be working at another internship next spring as a requirement for my major.

I'm currently interning at a non profit environmental organization. I love the work and the cause but the only hard part is that it isn't paid.

Are you receiving credit from your university at least?

This one is only for my resume. The internship I will be starting in the Spring I believe counts as a normal 3 credit class.

You can never have enough experience on your resume, trust me. I feel like a big kid now because my resume is actually 2 pages instead of 1 since I have so much more to put on it than just education and my dumb summer jobs waiting tables from back in the day.

Not gonna lie though, I paid a professional service to write and design my resume for me. It was pretty expensive (129 bucks) but its precisely what employers and HR people want to see I am told.

That's exactly what I was told as well. My grades are really good but I wanted to add more internship experience to my resume. I had one other one but it was for journalism and I changed my major so I thought that a non profit internship in politics would look great on my resume.

The resume format I have been using for years hasn't failed me yet but it's definitely time for a change since I will be applying for graduate school soon. My mother's friend is a career counselor and she is great with resumes so I'm hoping she will help spruce mine up lol.

Having a Mom like that can certainly help. My university had a career services office, but the work study people there were essentially useless as far as helping me build a solid resume, so I resorted to using professionals.

You will have fun in grad school. I just finished up and with the exception of writing my thesis, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience. The days of long, objective, scantron tests go bye bye and you will be writing long and extremely detailed essays. You will also be reading A LOT of material. I practically lived on the couches of the top floor of the library reading for hours upon hours.

Classroom discussions are also much more engaging and interesting because you won't have to deal with the D-bags on academic probation that act like idiots. Grad school separates the men from the boys, but you will learn 10 times more than you did inn undergrad.

Grad school seems like the place for me then. Writing and reading have always been strong suits of mine. The thesis seems intimidating so hopefully I can work on it part by part over a long period of time. I am someone who always works well under pressure and at the last minute but I am going to adjust my study habits to avoid any unnecessary stress.

I'm happy to hear about the classroom discussions because in undergrad, you don't get a lot of classes that you can really discuss intelligently until you get deeper into your major. I'm just looking forward to people I can debate and discuss issues with intelligently instead of a student whose just taking the class your taking as an university requirement.

The thesis is a bitch, no getting around that. For me, the longest paper I had ever written before grad school was 20 pages, so when I was told I would be writing a 60 pager, I felt like the world was on my shoulders.

Also, the way in which you write and research is 180 from undergrad. You can't just read a bunch of material and write about other peoples ideas. You have to come up with the ideas and then find scholarly material to justify it. You also have to incorporate original research into it, which is time consuming and frustrating.

I do not want to scare you, but its something that you really have to get cracking on ASAP when you start grad school. 2 years might seem like a long time, but you will be so busy the time will fly by. After your get your topic approved, they will assign you to a thesis advisor. Hit them up as much as possible and bring him/her your pages for review as you complete them. They all have PhD's so they will empathize with how much your life sucks and normally bend over backwards to help you.