Summer internships

[jessicak]

I'll be working at National Semiconductor for the summer up in Santa Clara, CA.

 

[Stunt]

Working for intel...way to make an attempt at being secretive...
Getting on with a company of that size in a lowly internship position is nothing special.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Working for Shell at the deer park refinery. Fairly interesting, and they pay well.

 

[esun]

I'm at Cisco this summer, in the group working on IP phones. To the OP, hope you don't get a low-level technician job, otherwise...well, your life might suck. My roommate while I'm here in San Jose complained endlessly about his job at Intel. Luckily he got hired elsewhere.

I don't find there is such a gap between interns and regular employees at Cisco. It's probably because they don't seem to group interns together. In fact, I haven't met another intern at the company yet, and I've been here 3 weeks. We have a mailing list that someone from HR put together for us, but we're spread through a lot of buildings (I'm in building 25, to give you an idea of how many) so it's not like the interns are expected to entertain themselves while people do work.

 

[Kanalua]

I start a fellowship tuesday at a certain State Office for a certain native population of the state I live in (and am a member..the native population and the state). It's a fellowship, so not just a grunt, get to do actually legal prep and research, and hopefully field work (NAGPRA stuff).

Am nervous and excited!

 

[Gibson486]

I have an Electrical Engineering Internship/Coop at Bose. Gonna be fun. It's my third intern/coop. My first one was a firmware engineer at Zoran (I hate pragramming) and my second one was a general Engineer at a start up company that makes audio amplifiers (fun, but lots of grunt works towards the end and they laid me off while i was part time).

 

[Cooler]

When I was in college I got 4 internships at NASA during the summers.

 

[TheoPetro]

I have one at an up and comming LCD compay in the RND area. Alot of chemestry with some bullshit work thrown in. Im learning a TON about LCDs and the whole manufacturing process in general.

 

[SWScorch]

I'm an intern for the Air Force Research Lab... if your's is anything like mine, expect to be bored 90% of the time.

 

[Mardeth]

Not sure if you could call an intership. Maybe more of an hybrid summer job/internship. I have my first year of studies and my first job in the field which I think is pretty good. Usually you need AT LEAST 2 years (degree takes normally 5 years here). 4 months at 50 million company. The department I work for is really small thought (4 + me) so Im gonna try to get somewhere else next year so I can get a bit higher this time around.