Internships and Projects: How to balance them with College Academics?

 “Attendance, Backlogs, Assignments, Academics, Ah! College life is so exhausting. How am I supposed to sync in Internships and Projects in my schedule?” We’re sure that you too wonder now and then how you can synchronize college studies along with the Internships and Projects that you work so hard on to build your resume and polish your skills. Working on Projects and Internships can be very exhausting on their own, let alone balancing them with your college studies. We, at InternshipGate, work consistently to address such issues faced by thousands of students on an everyday basis and always aim to provide every aid possible to identify the root cause of the issue and help students work on solving the problems at the root level to provide efficient and sustainable solutions. So if you are interested in knowing how you can maintain a symphony between your academics and resume-building activities, keep reading as we help you identify and bust your negative behavioral tendencies and myths around this topic. Maintaining your GPA: “But I heard my seniors say how GPA doesn’t affect your performance in job interviews, does a low GPA make me a less desirable candidate for good companies?” You see, when companies arrive at your respective colleges and universities to offer placements, they usually set some criterions one of which is the student’s GPA to allow only a limited number of students to apply for the positions therefore if you fail to qualify to even apply because of not reaching the cut-off marks, you won’t even get a chance to exhibit and apply your skills to impress the recruiters and secure a package. Therefore, start working on maintaining a CGPA of at least 8 /10 from your very first year to ensure you don’t have to work twice as hard on your academics to balance it up during the final years. This way you can ensure that you don’t have the unnecessary pressure of your low GPA that takes away more time from you than what you could have utilized to work on some impressive projects or interviews. “The Early Bird Catches the Worm”: Time and again we have been preached by our elders to know the essence of time, the more we delay a task the more repercussions we face later. This old piece of wisdom is equally applicable for this situation as well. Most of the students don’t realize that they should start working on their resumes and adding up skills until it’s too late. Then end up compromising with repetitive and already existing ideas/projects that lack creativity and the essence of freshness. Therefore if you end up adding that same “Billing Website”, “Face Recognition”, “Student Portal Website” in your resume just like most of your batchmates, you will fail to make a positive impact on the recruiter. On the other hand, if you were consistent on working up your skills and exploring new domains from the very beginning, You are bound to have some very unique and creative ideas that you will have plenty of time to work on therefore separating you from the rest of the candidates and significantly enhancing your chance of securing a package as compared to those who didn’t work on anything very creative. Therefore, start as early as you can! Utilize your Vacations/Weekends well: “But don’t we deserve a little break on weekends? C’mon partying just one day a week won’t hurt us!” Breaks are important. It is very important to provide your brain and your body ample time to recover and relax every now and then especially when you’ve been working hard for an extended period therefore partying and vacations occasionally are quite healthy and productive. However, this does not mean that we take the liberty to let our every weekend slip through being unproductive and lazy. Most of the students fail to realize that they can get so much work done in just one day if they set appropriate goals and dedicate a decent amount of focus on working on them. You can build almost 50% if not an entire mini project on a weekend if you plan efficiently. Vacations can be used to learn a new skill and build some really complex projects as well. You can even work as an intern remotely and many companies and organizations seek interns during summer and winter breaks as well therefore it is quite crucial that you use your days off from academics efficiently to avoid compromising your productivity. So, this sums up this article for now. We hope it helps you identify some weak spots that you can work on or at least gives you a direction that you need to look towards to be one step closer to your goals. Happy Learning! https://www.internshipgate.com/blogs