<p>This is my first post on CC. And seeing that JPL is managed by Caltech, so I'm guessing that maybe some Caltech students might know more about interning at JPL this summer.</p>
<p>The thing is, I'm a freshman at MIT considering majoring in both Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and Economics. I noticed that JPL has Earth Science laboratories that I would be very interested interning in for this summer. I've had some background in Earth and Atmospheric science back in high school, and a lab internship involving land-atmosphere flux. </p>
<p>I'm wondering if the scientists in those labs are still willing to take in summer interns at this point, especially when I'm not from California and a MIT freshman student? Will contacting them by emails help?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>PS> Some of you may be wondering why I don't stay at MIT this summer, especially when I know I can very easily obtain a summer internship here. The thing is that I've already spent a summer in Boston/MIT doing research and I just want to go out to somewhere else new besides staying in the East coast all the time.</p>
<p>shhh, techers are still sleeping, it’s only a little past 1pm, West coast time. They will answer your post when they wake up.
Did you try applying for SURF? JPL scientists work with SURF students every summer.
It is the best way for a non techer to get research at JPL but it’s too late for this year, decisions come out soon.</p>
<p>Ahh, I’m sorry. I keep forgetting about the time difference between west and east coast. I also woke up at 1 PM today. Lol.</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t apply to SURF back then because…I just kinda didn’t do internship search until recently and I see that deadlines had passed already. So, I’m wondering if I can just contact scientists and ask them to take me in under JPL’s summer intern program? Does anybody know how this works?</p>
<p>It’s really late to be finding something at JPL- all of the summer internship stuff (SURF, Space Grant, etc) has already been released. You can try contacting people by email, but that’s not really likely to get you that far.</p>
<p>Your best bet right now is to see if anyone at MIT has any connections that you could take advantage of. You need to move really quickly so you can also get housing for the summer. Most summer stuff here starts in mid-June and goes until mid-August (10 weeks).</p>
<p>Hi,
I’m going to be a junior. I’d like toparticipate MIT RSI program in summer of 2012. Can anyone know about what kind of people MIT looking for this program?</p>