Internship or Stay at Home

[MedEngine5]

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I'm in a little bit of a predicament. I am a sophomore Biomedical Engineering / Premed. I have been offered an internship with a large medical company approximately 6 hours away from home and University.

The internship is a fantastic opportunity to grow my resume, but I am conflicted. I love medicine, I want to go into medicine. However, I still want to have a back up plan in case I do not get in. Being away from home and University takes away some volunteering and shadowing opportunities I may have.

Any advice?

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Congratulations.

Are you getting paid?

 

[MedEngine5]

Congratulations.

Are you getting paid?

Yes, I would be getting paid. The downside to this is that the COL is extremely high in the area I would be interning at. I would be paying ~$2500 a month in rent.

 

[Mr.Smile12]

Yes, I would be getting paid. The downside to this is that the COL is extremely high in the area I would be interning at. I would be paying ~$2500 a month in rent.

I presume you can share a flat/apartment?

Can I ask why you applied for this internship? It's not easy to execute a Plan B without any industry experience. If you were so concerned about losing opportunities for volunteering and shadowing, you shouldn't have applied so someone else who wants to make connections with industry jobs can take advantage. Why did you do this? We're engineers... we are supposed to do internships when one is available.

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EDIT: Also a big city has more opportunities for volunteering as long as you can get to those venues. Learn to be an adult in the city; find a roommate or a few, don't party every night, and do a volunteering stint on weekends. You'll be fine. (I'm presuming big city because I'd be shocked if living in a more suburban or rural area costs $2500/mo in rent.)

 

[LizzyM]

Being away for one summer is not going to have a major effect on volunteering and shadowing as long as you are doing it during the school years before and after the summer away.

You mentioned that you are being paid and that the monthly rent is expected to be $2500/mo. What proportion of your monthly stipend would you be paying in rent? Is there a way to reduce the cost by taking a roommate, subletting the apartment of a student who is away for the summer (I did both one summer in NYC, living with a grad student whose roommate was doing an away rotation for the summer)