2012-01-15, 02:15 PM
I'm no history/poly-sci double major, but I am a psychology major with only one semester left until I get my BA and go onto law school. 
. And as far as the internship goes, I think you're thinking about it a little hard. Sure, people want qualified interns, but if my own previous search for an internship has taught me anything, it's that interns are basically free money. You're going to have more hurdles to cross for the more prestigious internships, but at the end of the day, being an unpaid intern sells itself. That said, I think getting an on-campus job will probably ruin your academic streak, without benefiting your internship search at all. I'm actually surprised too that you couldn't find anything. I got my internship a week before school started, and I knew people who didn't get theirs until two weeks after.
It's harder to comment on the general college suggestions, only because I've found myself gifted in life enough to be able to get your GPA without even reading the class book or studying at all for any test, midterm, or final. I don't know what sort of past you had in high school with parties and the like either. The only thing I can really think of though is to not completely smother yourself in school. I don't study for 10 minutes a day, so I can't imagine 5 hours, but I can imagine that you are going to burn out by 2014. :C
. And as far as the internship goes, I think you're thinking about it a little hard. Sure, people want qualified interns, but if my own previous search for an internship has taught me anything, it's that interns are basically free money. You're going to have more hurdles to cross for the more prestigious internships, but at the end of the day, being an unpaid intern sells itself. That said, I think getting an on-campus job will probably ruin your academic streak, without benefiting your internship search at all. I'm actually surprised too that you couldn't find anything. I got my internship a week before school started, and I knew people who didn't get theirs until two weeks after.It's harder to comment on the general college suggestions, only because I've found myself gifted in life enough to be able to get your GPA without even reading the class book or studying at all for any test, midterm, or final. I don't know what sort of past you had in high school with parties and the like either. The only thing I can really think of though is to not completely smother yourself in school. I don't study for 10 minutes a day, so I can't imagine 5 hours, but I can imagine that you are going to burn out by 2014. :C