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What's /sci/ doing for summer? Anyone got a cool job? A cool internship maybe?

Tell us about it!

>be me
>math major at a good school
>good grades
>applied to about different 50 internship
>heard back from <30% of places I applied to
>got 1 interview (didn't get it)
>I even said to one place that I'd work for nothing and only for experience because it's so close to me (20min away).

When I graduate next year, I'm sure I'll have even 'funner' time! Anyway, looks like I'll be shitposting on here and working at a cell phone store part time this summer.

>> No.7185930

so no one got any summer internships?

>> No.7185933

>>7185512
That really sucks, OP.
I got my first REU project this summer and it's something I actually like. Just got lucky though. I applied to 6 places and only got this one response.

>> No.7185938

>>7185512

Starting my dream job. Hypersonic missile design at Raytheon Missile Systems. Feels good to (almost) be done with school.

>> No.7185949

>>7185938
that sounds amazing. what's you major? eng?

>> No.7185955

>>7185512
>Implying it is summer everywhere in the world in June/July

>> No.7185973

>>7185955
>australians shitposting again
why don't you guys invent ƃɹo˙uɐɥɔㄣ so no one will offend you over summer season timing?

>> No.7185990

>>7185949

Aerospace engineering.

>> No.7186001

>>7185990
How selective is the field of missile design?

>> No.7186007

>>7185512
If you get good grades as a math major at a good school, and only heard back from 30% of jobs you applied to, you're doing something wrong. At my school math majors who got good grades had one of the highest rates of interviews. The good math majors got interviews at investment banking and other business jobs with a higher success rate than the good business school kids, even though my school's undergrad business school is way more prestigious than our undergrad math.

>> No.7186016

>>7186001

It's pretty selective since it's not exactly a huge industry, but if you have an advanced degree and a strong resume it's doable.

>> No.7186029

>>7186016
Ph.d.? or did you do a masters?

>> No.7186038

>>7186029

Masters.

>> No.7186051

Leaving to go work for ABB in Switzerland for a year as an engineering intern. Semiconductor and turbine R and D, kind of a weird mix but couldn't be more excited!

>> No.7186207

Interning at Potomac Electric Power Company doing substation design. It's my first EE internship, it pays decent and it's not far from where I live so I'm fairly excited.

>> No.7186297

>>7186007
>The good math majors got interviews at investment banking and other business jobs with a higher success rate than the good business school kids, even though my school's undergrad business school is way more prestigious than our undergrad math.
I'd rather kill myself than spend my life working in finance. I can't think of something more worthless and boring than fucking finance.

>> No.7186315
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7186315

starting my PhD studying computational fluid dynamics

got a badass RA with a choice of projects ranging from explosives to nozzle combustion, gonna be tight as hell.

>> No.7186317

>>7186297

Yeah, I don't get why people even get excited about that crap. I always wondered if it's really just a bunch of pea brains who are actually challenged by memorizing simple arithmetic and think they're bad ass.

>> No.7186318

>>7186315

What exactly is computational fluid dynamics? I've heard that subject mentioned a lot but I have no idea what it actually is

>> No.7186325

>>7185512
Starting a 16 month internship with General Motors. Electrical engineering intern. Should be pretty cool.

>> No.7186330

>>7185512
interviewed for MIT research position I won't get, working manager trainee at large corporate business for job guarantee after graduating (next year).

feels ok mang. job security is nice, but hopefully I can work there for a few years to afford a master's in my focus for a sure fire job.

>> No.7186331

>>7186318
coming up with ways to numerically solve the governing equations of fluid flows using big ass computers

in my case it gets applied to reacting flow systems

>> No.7186336

>>7185512
That kind of shit makes me really consider just giving up and climbing the corporate ladder at my part-time job and becoming a middle manager. It'd be easy and the job would be quite secure. But it seems so dull, ugh.

>> No.7186340

>>7186317
I have a friend who worked in finance... he quit after a year and went into software. He hated finance too.

>> No.7186358

>>7186331

see

>>7186330

I'm in the same position. Graduate school, or comfy? fuck if I know. One is guaranteed and one isn't.

>> No.7186398

>>7186358
depends, what are your career aspirations as far as research goes?

>> No.7186423

>>7186398
Majored in Cognitive Science and working on stats minor. Didn't specialize in AI, so my only option is usability/ergonomics/human computer interaction (and I'll be lucky if I can pull a job out of undergrad w/o a masters). If I can pull a portfolio together before I graduate undergrad, I'll be ok. If not, I need enough research experience for grad school, then maybe apply for microshit/amazon/big tech company.

currently drunk, sorry

>> No.7186435

>>7186423
>Cognitive Science
>using alcohol

I would think you'd go for the better options. It seems the school taught you nothing.

>> No.7186437

>>7186051
>Being excited for working for companies like ABB, Siemens, TE Connectivity, Continental etc.

shiggy fucking diggy, mate. Your soul will die in the jungle-like corporate environment. I hope they're offering big bux at least.

>> No.7186444

>>7186435
>implying it didn't teach me anything

you think there is a reason I'm drunk?

hint: It's not because I'm aiming for longevity.

>> No.7186458

As a HS(last year) faggot, I am thinking of just trying to get an unpaid internship somewhere with either electricity or automatization to get some experience.

Anyone have any idea how to approach this?

Also, I live in Yurop.

>> No.7186463

>>7185512
I am a very humble person as well and I'm a STEM and Japanese Major who applied for study abroad research funds to write a report on my findings about Japanese culture.There is another girl on the same program who is also applying for the same thing am I am applying for except she is asking for more money for camera and tripod equipment. She is a law major and has a scholarship that pays for most of her tuition already and could potential get more "exceptional funding" for the summer.

She hasn't turned in her application yet and I turned mine as soon as possible and wrote a very concise proposal. Knowing how eloquent these law types can be I believe she might get the funding even though this year twice as many applied for the funding compared to last year.

I'm not going to be bitter if I don't get the funding but that is how the law of the world works. Knowing my passion for research and STEM knowledge I'll probably go far with it anyways.

>> No.7186474

Taking A chinese course, linear algebra 2 and calculus 3, working, doing some undergrad research with professors

>> No.7186508

>>7186336
I meant to reply here with
>>7186358
...

>> No.7186934

i kn that feel
im in my third year of a physics major
last spring i didn't relaly put that much effort into tryign to get research
this summer i made very personal (referencing their research) emails to 20 profs including those at my home institution and the institution where my parents live and would spend summer if i dont get something here. a lot didn't respond, some were traveling, some couldn't pay me. If getting basic bitch undergrad research is this hard, i dont' think i want to go into academia.... Too bad i don't have a plan B

>> No.7187003

>>7186437
I think I'm well paid for what I'll end up doing, I'm mostly excited for the travel experience and to get the fuck out of oil and gas land (read: Alberta)

>> No.7187142

>>7186437
Is it okay to be excited for working for Exxon, Total, Ineos, .. ?

>> No.7187145
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7187145

>>7185512
>He became a math major unironically

Surely nobody can be this stupid.

>> No.7187146

>>7185512
designing the overhead caternary system for the Denver light rail.

>> No.7187147

>>7185512
Working in a Prof's lab, doing Mossbauer spectroscopy on some rare earth compounds. Not exactly sure what I'll be doing, but it should be a blast.