Questions tagged [internship]
A student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.
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What is behind the "Indian Undergrad Research Experience"-spam?
Every now and then I receive an email claiming to be from some undergrad student in Math or Computer Science at an Indian university asking for a summer research experience in "my research group" (...
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Supervisor who accepted me for a research internship now says he doesn't know who I am
I've been accepted in a research internship. However, after I sent an email to my supervisor asking about some details, he told me that he has no idea about who I am, and that maybe I've been ...
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How to cite oneself as co-author without all names, for resume or presentation?
My questions regards the format of citation.
For the context: I am a student, presenting my work (with slides) and referring to the publications in which I am co-author (never in the first three ...
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What are the potential benefits and pitfalls of leaving tenth grade early to pursue an internship at a prominent research lab?
I'm a tenth grader in high school and I'm passionate about my research in computational neuroscience. I'm in a unique situation, and I'm wondering whether I should leave tenth grade early this year to ...
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Have I offended my professor by applying to summer research at other universities?
Yesterday I applied to a bunch of internships and sent my professor a request for a recommendation letter. He denied me the request, and sent my request email, along with his reply, to everyone in the ...
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Can a professor do an internship?
Can a professor (let's say a math professor) do something like an internship at a tech company during the summer as a way to keep their industry skills sharp / relevant? Does anyone ever do this?
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If a professor says he will not fund my internship as it will be my first visit, how can I convince him politely?
I contacted a professor in a foreign university for a possible research internship in his lab. He is willing to accept me as an intern, but has stated that since he barely knows me and it is the first ...
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Timing an internship during PhD
Suppose there is an engineering PhD student who is unsure whether to join academia or the industry after his PhD. He does not want to take chances and applies for internship positions during the ...
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Faux pas to send personal email along with letter of reference?
I'm a new professor and am writing my first letters of recommendation. I have an undergrad student that is truly quite good applying to a summer research program at an institution where I have people ...
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Am I burning bridges if I am applying for an internship which I am likely to turn down even if I am accepted?
There is an internship opportunity at a prestigous institution, which I consider applying for. I do not yet have a job offer for the considered time period. I need a job/internship for financial ...
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Not including student who contributed very little as coauthor of paper
I am a researcher in condensed-matter physics, and I recently started a research project with another professor, for which I hired a student for a six-month undergraduate internship. The student was ...
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I am a PhD candidate and I have been offered an internship that I want to take. My advisor objects. Should I take it anyway?
I am a PhD candidate in computer engineering. I've just finished my 2nd year. I finished all courses and passed the comprehensive exam. Currently working in a nice research project in collaboration ...
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Doing two summer research internships at the same time?
I have recently got into a weird situation, that I didn't think I would be in. First of all, I had applied for a paid research internship abroad (at a foreign university) some time ago. Due to covid ...
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Do I have to acknowledge the company where I started a project when I later publish related research in college?
I completed an internship at a company. During the internship I worked on a generic and publically well-known problem statement and delivered its solution to the company.
After the internship, I ...
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Internships for PhD students (e.g. in data science or programming)
I still have 2-2.5 years of my PhD program, but it want to try my skills in programing, especially in the taste of data science (needless to say, I do it overnight for some hobby projects and I like ...
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How to approach principal investigators for internship/job positions
What would you recommend as the best way of approach principal investigators for internship/job positions? I'm undergrad, with a planned graduation this winter and I want to get some experience before ...
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How do I get recommendation letters?
I have had a different set of professors every semester and as batch sizes are pretty big ~80, and with every professor dealing with 3-4 separate batches of equivalent size, for barely 3-4 months at a ...
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Can I work as a software engineer and be a PhD student?
I'm a master student, my master's background is about IT, signal processing, and Telecommunications. It's a "research master", which means that we're trained more to do research than be an IT ...
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Can you contact a professor whom you have never met to inquire about a RA opportunity?
Is it considered ok to proactively ask a professor from a different university that you never met in person about some potential research assistant internship? Or is something like that considered ...
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Can international students in USA intern in summer in industry?
Can international PhD students go do internships during summer in industries?
Does their F1 visa status allow this?
From how I see it, this is neither an OPT or a CPT.
I asked my International ...
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Who should fund conference trips based on internship research?
I am a full professor at a university in the US, working in computer science. Many of my PhD students these days apply to do an internship during their PhD, which I always let them do. However, I have ...
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Unsure if I am the best fit to write a Recommendation Letter for a Research Internship
A promising student of mine has asked me to write them a letter of recommendation for a research internship they are applying to. I believe the student is a very good candidate for an internship, but ...
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How to get the most out of an internship (in industry)?
As a PhD student pursuing an academic career (but optionally a career in industry), what should I do do to get the most of a 10-week internship at a research lab?
Things I've thought of: talking with ...
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Understanding an advisor’s refusal of an internship
I am graduate research assistant in Computer Science in the US. A while ago, a master student in the research group, who plans on a career in industry after graduate school, received an internship ...
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Is it possible for an F-1 graduate student in US to do internship in Europe?
I am a graduate student in US with F-1 visa. I have an internship offer from a company in France. Is it possible/feasible for me to accept this offer, or are there any rules preventing me from doing ...
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Understanding the value of short-term undergraduate internships for host universities and professors
I am currently exploring the possibility of participating in a summer internship. While researching, I've noticed that many internships offered by universities last for approximately two months. This ...
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How to report on an academically required internship with a bad supervisor relationship
I am a few days from completion of an industrial internship that is required for my Masters degree. I have had a bad experience with the supervisor of this internship, who has insulted me several ...
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Does Mathematics research in proven problems have any importance?
This is my first post in this community, please excuse me if this kind of post is inappropriate.
I completed my second year of my Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics (where I study, all Bachelor's ...
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Does research require a certain kind of personal abilities or is it a matter of hard work?
I've failed to finish my master thesis, I thought this was attributed to the minimal supervision of my adviser - he/she wasn't an expert in the domain of thesis and didn't give me any kind of insights ...
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6-months internship has nothing to do with what was promised
Since sept 2013, I have been doing a Masters in mathematical finance. Our course requires us to do an off-cycle internship of 5 months minimum (typically, from April to September).
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Should I submit one strong recommendation letter or one strong letter and one weaker letter?
I'm a third year undergraduate engineering student in India.
I am applying for a research program at a foreign university which will start at the end of my third year. This internship program ...
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Is it ethical to for a commercial organisation to get student interns to download journal articles using student's university access?
I'm currently interning for a small R&D company. The boss is notoriously tight fisted and prone to cutting corners to save any amount of money he can. In the past, he has attempted to use my ...
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How to apply for a research internship at the master's level?
I'm a master's student doing research in the field of the cognitive psychology of language and I would like to do an unpaid 4-month research internship in a different university. I am preparing cover ...
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How to recover one's career opportunities after a period of poor performance
I read this question about falling behind, but my question is more about the long term.
I find myself becoming depressed at lack of overall opportunities in graduate school (in mathematics, ...
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Chance Of Getting A Research Internship In US/Canada For Non-US Residents?
I completed my undergraduate study in computer science outside of the US. I hope to obtain a PhD degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in the US, but I don't feel that I am qualified enough (in ...
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Is it fine to email several people regarding internship programs and potentially have to turn down one?
As stated above, is it acceptable to email many people requesting mentorships at once; hypothetically, if two people were to say yes, is it okay to say something like "I apologize, but someone ...
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Is an internship in theoretical physics valuable for me?
I am planning to do an internship in a theoretical physics area for a year before applying for PhD. My current masters' thesis advisor (who is a hardcore experimentalist) warned me that I might not ...
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Recommendation letter from assistant professor vs professor
Which one will be given more importance? A strong recommendation from a new assistant professor or an average recommendation from senior professor?
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My internship mentor would not write a recommendation for me, should I include the internship in my statement of purpose?
I'm finishing up my MS and getting ready to send out PhD applications, and I am not sure about a particular item that should be included / or should not be included.
I spent a semester at a high ...
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Is it too late to ask the faculty for a summer research internship position?
I am wondering if it's too late to ask the faculty about the availability of a summer research internship position? When would be the best time for this?
More information as requested:
I am looking ...
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What are the major differences between PhD programs in mathematics and PhD programs in other STEM fields?
I am currently two years into a math PhD program at a mid-tier state school. I read a lot of advice about getting a STEM PhD on the Internet, but a lot of it seems very inapplicable to mathematics. I ...
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Dealing with intern supervisor who underestimates my abilities
I am an undergraduate student who got into a voluntary internship for a year in my department.
Without going into much detail, I'm a trainee in the lab where programming lessons are held with lots of ...
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Should I call professors on their office phone for inquiring about research internship opportunities?
There are many established university research internship program, which ask to get an acceptance from a faculty to apply for the internship. I tried mailing them, but none of them responded. Should I ...
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Tips for supervising interns
My advisor will be taking on a number of summer interns, some of whom have been assigned to my projects. The interns are a mix of sophomore and junior undergrads with varied levels of research ...
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What does it mean when a professor says that he'll pay me as a 'mission' for an internship?
I applied for and got selected for a summer internship at a renowned research lab in Germany. The professor says they will try to fund all my expenses, but will pay me as a 'mission'. What does this ...
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What does 'open position for bachelor project' actually mean?
I am third-year bachelor student currently seeking a research internship in Germany and I encounter many group websites that say something like: “We have positions for bachelor projects.” I am ...
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How should a high-school student approach professors in research institutions about research opportunities?
I am a high schooler who lives in the vicinity of many premier research institutions and am very interested in going into STEM. I know that I will have to ask a lot of professors to let me work under ...
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Should I do a summer research internship?
I am currently a master's student in computer science, doing research with one of my professors. They are a good mentor, and pay well. However, our research interests aren't quite aligned - they're ...
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Affiliation for a student's internship project
Though related to this question on undegrad student affiliation, I am in a somewhat different situation…
I am an undergrad student at the Miskatonic University. For completion of their BSc, students ...
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Is it appropriate to apply again for an internship you've previously turned down?
I am in the process of applying to summer PhD research internships in industry (I'm in CS). Last year I had two appealing offers, but of course could only take one. This year I am still interested at ...
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