Internships: How science internships have helpful you?

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<p>Internships: How science internships have helpful you?</p>

<p>We can expect that Internships will be a positive experience. </p>

<p>Please share your experiences and how this experience has helped you in your life. </p>

<p>Was your Internship as positive as it was expected?</p>

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<p>In my 2nd Daughters case, the result was better than good. After her 2nd year in HS, she applied for and recived an internship at the local large state University, She learned research techniques, conducted actual lab research, got 3 credits at the university, and 1 credit for HS! On top of this, she was paid $1000, and because she was now a known quantity, was invited into the Early Admit program (She is spending her senior year at the uni instead of HS) in the Honors College, even though her SATs were not high enough. She did well this year, well enough that when she decided she wanted a smaller more prestigious school, she was acepted at (so far) 9 schools with great merit financial aid! All with great grades, but average SAT’s.</p>

<p>All because she spent her lunches in the computer lab at HS, surfing the internet!!!</p>

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<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>I’m jealous EvilDad. It seems hard to find internships in our area; we’re not near a college or university. Poking at a HS computer during lunches sounds much too easy.</p>

<p>Greenery: how could they hurt you?</p>

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<p>Last summer (between jr and sr year) my S did an internship with an Earth Sciences professor, in the area of paleoclimatology (think climate change, global warming.) Thanks to taking linear algebra the year before, my S was able to pick up Matlab with ease and did some data analysis of fossil corals and otehr things. The professor taught S how to look up research references and write an abstract from his work. If the professor publishes something, S’s name will be on it.</p>

<p>The abstract became part of college essays. We discovered this week (although the prof was not used as a LOR writer) that S was admitted to that school - USC (in addition to UC Berkeley (Regents), UCLA, UCSD and UCSB, waiting on five OOS privates, rejected SCEA Stanford.)</p>