<p>If you're not going to go into academia or research, would it still be a good idea to do a research internship during summer after senior year high school?</p>
<p>Would you be playing playstation otherwise?</p>
<p>haha maybe, I would probably be trying to come up with an idea to incorporate comp sci and community service, getting a job at walmart, improving my spanish, or taking comp sci classes at local college.</p>
<p>If you have the opportunity to get into research, you must take it. If you end up hating it, at least it is something to put on your resume. A research internship is a rare chance. Lots of people want them, but few get them. At the best you learn you love research and that you want to do more, and you are inspired to work hard in school so you can go to graduate school. At the worst, you learn that you hate research, but future intenrships see your research experience and you get hired over people who didn’t have meaningful work experience in the field. You have nothing to lose, but everything to gain.</p>
<p>A research experience is a good one to have. Especially doing it as a job in the summer when you aren’t focused on other things like classes, you get a taste for what its like full time. And if you do end up enjoying it, you can likely have a summer job to go back to and develop a close relationship with the researcher. And if you are at a university, the professor likely won’t have other things to deal with (teaching, other undergrads doing research) so you will be able to experience more and do more fulfilling work. Especially for your first summer after high school, you still have 3 more summers to do other things!</p>
<p>If it’s available, do it. It will look good on your resume. Reading and writing research may be a normal part of your job if you’re a software engineer.</p>
<p>One of the things that we do in interviews if they get past the first round is to invite candidates in to do a presentation on research that they’ve done. The assumption is that they’ve done some research of course.</p>
<p>even if I’m probably going to go into engineering/buisness, not engineering research?</p>
<p>Research is helpful even if you’re going into the business side. Suppose you get a proposal for evaluation on a certain area of technology like a perpetual motion machine. You would at least want to know if the research is or isn’t a complete snow job.</p>
<p>Doing research will also give you some appreciation for what others do. It’s hard to imagine any downside to doing research other than your time. It’s easy to see a lot of potential upside.</p>
<p>is research> making websites for a company or translating from Spanish to English for a company?</p>
<p>“is research making websites for a company or translating from Spanish to English for a company?”</p>
<p>That work could be part of a research project but it isn’t research by itself. (someone correct me if they disagree).</p>
<p>hmm the greater sign didn’t show up i guess, what I meant to say is: what are the pros and cons of 1.) computer science or chem/physics/bio-comp sci research 2.) making websites for a company 3.) translating from Spanish to English for a company?</p>
<p>If you do research, it can help you get other research internships or work, it can help you get scholarships (there are merit scholarships that look at past and future contributions to research), it will look good on your resume and you can compete for positions where research is used or produced. You can potentially invent something or come up with a new algorithm or design that others use for further research or development.</p>
<p>Making websites can make you some nice money and will certainly prepare you for further jobs down the road making websites.</p>