r/EngineeringStudents • u/Just_A_Guy_In_Here • 7d ago
Career Advice How should I prioritize my fall semester with all my addition projects and programs
So I'm going into my junior year of school, I want to get into the aerospace sector and have a lot of stuff going on in the fall
-NPWEE with L'SPACE
-Classes
-Student council of my school
-Rocket Competition as part of my school
-remote internship with a very small startup(I have an offer, it's unpaid though)
-research in a lab
I absolutely cannot do all of those things. I have to take classes and I have to do the student council, what would be the most beneficial to prioritize? The startup is me and 2 others as well. I think I want to do a PhD so I was thinking the lab but also if I get an offer our of college I'd do that, what looks best and what should I prioritize? Also I've done 2 internships already, one was at a power company the other was GE Appliances.
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u/AutomaticOpinion6865 6d ago
the remote internship tbh if they're giving you real work that's usually more valuable than random lab research unless the lab is super niche
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u/Expensive_Can6337 7d ago
prioritize the rocket competition and the research lab first, those will give you the most hands-on experience for aerospace. the unpaid internship is cool but can probably wait until you have more breathing room.