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Sep 22, 2009 sKILLS rEQUIRED: theoretical modeling, kayaking, hiking, skydiving, paintballing, etc…
“Seeking: PhD Level Intern, Skills Required: theoretical modeling, kayaking, hiking, skydiving, paintballing, etc…” Think your eyes are playing tricks on you? This must be a joke? Most people think that graduate students doing summer internships is practically as impossible to believe as the tagline above. But in my case both are actually quite possible! This summer, I was blessed to go on an amazing internship at Intel. It was the perfect break point, as I had just finished up my masters thesis and quals last semester and was preparing to head straight into my PhD work this fall semester. So, I packed my bags and shipped my books to warm, sunny…..Oregon. You read it right, no California, no Silicon Valley as I was previously accustomed to, I was headed to Hillsboro, Oregon. Needless to say I was not to thrilled, but ironically it was the most thrilling summer I have ever experienced. As you can see from the pictures, not only was I intellectually stimulated working with some of the most amazing minds in theoretical process modeling, but I also enjoyed hanging out with the other “thrill-seeking” graduate interns in our sparse free time. I went skydiving (for the 2nd time), kayaking, whitewater rafting(Mt. Adams), and paint-balling. We had an amazing time as we worked hard and played hard all summer. I would have to say that it was great to see how meaningful the work we do at MIT is to industry, especially to a giant like Intel. I would definitely recommend interning at some point in your graduate career, paintballing….not so much(I still have bruises)!
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Nice post!
How would you compare your experience in California or Silicon Valley to Oregon… besides the kayaking, I mean. Would you say that the type or quality of the internship work differed greatly with the change in scenery?
Posted by: nakoruru on September 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Well I don’t think the site had much to do with it. It was more that I went from an undergraduate to a PhD level internship, from an engineering(no PhDs, mostly day to day process) to a purely theoretical research group(all PhD, next generation processes).
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Thank you for this beautiful article
Posted by: Eymir Fm on September 26th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Joy,
In your post, you said “Most people think that graduate students doing summer internships is practically as impossible to believe as the tagline above”.
Why is that? I mean, why would most people think that grad students would not be doing summer internships? I sort of imagined that a lot of grad students WOULD be doing internships.
Thanks!
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