Working as an RA during spring semester 1L year Forum
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Working as an RA during spring semester 1L year
Have an offer to do some RA work during this semester. Obviously great to get that networking connection as well as the research skills. My question is: anyone done this before care to tell me how difficult it was balancing course load + RA work?
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wiseowl
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Re: Working as an RA during spring semester 1L year
Suprised this is allowed. "Obviously" much greater to do well in your classes and find a summer job. If you can handle it though, go for it.Anonymous User wrote:Have an offer to do some RA work during this semester. Obviously great to get that networking connection as well as the research skills. My question is: anyone done this before care to tell me how difficult it was balancing course load + RA work?
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Re: Working as an RA during spring semester 1L year
I did this in the spring. The commitment wasn't major, under 40 hours total over the course of the work. It was a good contact and a nice resume line item, but I don't think it parted the clouds in the job search or gave me deep insights. The extra beer money was nice, and doing it made me realize how much I didn't love academic work, so I guess that was sort of a plus. The extra work load wasn't great, but the prof iwll be well aware how important 1L grades are and not overload you.
Go for it if you like the prof. That's probably the most important, you may well wind up really close to that person.
Go for it if you like the prof. That's probably the most important, you may well wind up really close to that person.
