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Can you take fewer, easier classes or take a semester off classes to do this? Perhaps you could wait on Organic Chemistry?

You have a good head on your shoulders. 🙂 Keeping that GPA up is the most important thing here.
 
RespectTheChemistry said:
Can you take fewer, easier classes or take a semester off classes to do this? Perhaps you could wait on Organic Chemistry?

You have a good head on your shoulders. 🙂 Keeping that GPA up is the most important thing here.
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I can go down to 14 credits (orgo, 2 neuro/cs classes, and one humanities class), but I already made commitments to activities that I can't exactly back out of.
 
Yeah, it's too risky given your class schedule and other activities. That experience seems to be more useful for those who want to get into public health policy than those aiming for medical school admissions.
 
One opinion of many, it sounds like a once in a lifetime opportunity. Even if you ended up moving a class to summer to compensate, it's not every day you can hang out with the World's Greatest Deliberative Body.

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Zdawg1303 said:
Hi! I am a sophomore undergraduate student. I recently got an offer for an unpaid internship with the US Senate HELP committee to work on disability policy for the Fall semester.

This has been a dream of mine to work on disability policy within the US Senate, but every pre-med gut feeling is telling me not to accept it. I'm taking Orgo, my hard Neuro class, and some other classes for 17 credits total. I'm also balancing my neuro research, a part-time job, and some other disability advocacy projects. The concern is that I just won't have time for everything and my grades will suffer, but I'm not sure when I will ever get the opportunity to work in the US Senate again. The internship is not directly healthcare/pre-med related, but it's so central to all of my volunteering and advocacy I do.
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Don't put your life on hold for a nebulous pre-med pursuit. You said it yourself, it's a dream. Shift responsibilities/classes as needed and fulfill your dream.
 
Most people take a gap year anyways so it’s okay to graduate a semester late and take this amazing opportunity. Also, it will make a killer experience for your application.

With that being said, my M2 mentor also did a similar internship like yours but he did it while in school. Not sure how many courses he took, but he’ll say it’s doable if you plan everything just right.
 
Nontraditional premed here. Let me relate to you from experience. When I was an undergrad (in the humanities), I was offered an opportunity in a physics class to work in a lab that developed the camera on the CERN particle accelerator. I was so busy on campus, and had a lot going on with my classes, part-time job, sorority, etc., so I opted not to. I think about that missed opportunity a lot, even a decade later. An internship like this could open up contacts and doors you don’t even know about yet. Think about ways you can adjust your schedule and try to do it if it’s meaningful to you.
 
Be careful. There seems to be an increasing tendency for politicians to act with such little disregard to social norms that even working for one can come across as negatively to some
 
It's a senate committee on disability policy not a political campaign. I don't see how anyone save a conspiracy theorist could see that negatively.
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Be careful. There seems to be an increasing tendency for politicians to act with such little disregard to social norms that even working for one can come across as negatively to some
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