Internship Experience?

[nauadpi]

-How was your overall experience?
It was great... It let me see what real research was like, not just in class labs.
-Do you feel that you contributed to the company?
One of my programs has been dirrectly used multiple times over.
-How was it set up?
I was hired on as an intern dirrectly by a scientist, then I spent the summer programing and helping him take data.
-How did you get the internship?
I contacted the scientist directly saying I was interested in an internship.
-Did you go into the field that you interned in?
Yes. I continued my major in that field and will be starting graduate school in it in the fall.
-Do you feel you gained "real world experience"?
Yes. Lab work is very different in real life then in a class. Especially in space and planetary science.
-How long was your internship?
3 months (but I did it multiple summers)
-Did you receive any benefits(including fringe) while being an intern?
Access to NASA Ames Research Center and a stipend of $2000 for the summer.
-How were you treated?
Wonderfully and my conections there have helped me get into Graduate School.


For the record. I worked as an intern at NASA Ames Research Center as an intern doing research in Planetary Science (mainly Mars research).