<p>I'm a 3rd year chemical engineer and I've been involved in research for the past year. I've also been applying to internships lately just to see if I could get a call and I got an interview coming up next week for an engineering firm close to campus.</p>
<p>I was wondering if it's possible to handle both on-campus research and an outside internship simultaneously in the summer time. I believe the internship is almost full time (30 hours) whereas my self-research, with UROP funding, requires roughly 30 hrs a week. My dilemma is, I'm an optimist and I want to try to fit both in by taking a cut in hours in one or the other. Basically, I'm debating between a) writing a technical paper with funding or b)working and getting paid a lot or c)trying to do both and be very busy, but productive, this summer.</p>
<p>My ultimate goal would be to go to a top 10 chemical engineering graduate school for my MS or Ph.D.</p>