Friday, May 1, 2009

Norcal Internship application

With the advice of a friend, I applied to an internship that’s related to Regulatory Science up in Norcal for the summer.  It’s for an internship at a small biomedical company researching some type of heart valve that’s currently in clinical trials.  Given that getting into the industry field is going to be incredibly tough, it’d be nice to get some experience before I graduate.  Next summer, the competition for internships will only get worse as it will be the time when the majority of the students in the program will be applying.

         It’s been nearly 4 days now since I’ve applied.  Still crossing my fingers.  The only bad thing is that it’s in Santa Rosa.  They haven’t exactly discussed the topic of room and board yet, but I’m guessing that students will be responsible for it entirely.  I think that’d absurd considering that it’s in a foreign area and most students wouldn’t have any contacts up there.  I checked on google maps the other day and it’s about 1 hour west of Napa, and 1 hour north of SF.  My friend told me I’d be bored out of my mind, but I guess sometimes you just have to sacrifice a bit to get what you want.  Sacrifice would be an understatement though, since leaving LA would mean missing 3 concerts that I’ve already bought tickets for (Kelly Clarkson, Incubus, and No Doubt).  It also means taking 4 summer school classes online on the weekends after working.  It’s way to say to predict what will happen though.  I need to stop overanalyzing things and just go with the flow.   

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