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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I had a (paid) internship in a particular field of engineering. These do exist, btw, even for HS students. People were nice. They loved doing what they did.

It convinced me, however, that their work would be boring *for me*. I still went into engineering, but chose upper-level electives and such so I could get a job in R&D instead.

A different intern the same place the same summer had the opposite reaction and later went to work at that place.

A possible benefit to internship is learning whether one likes that sort of work. It won't be as crisp a decision for some as it was for me, but it could be helpful in selecting a career path. [/quote]

OP here,

This is interesting to me.  The internship is with a company that does work that is similar to what he thinks he might want to do, in the field he is currently planning to major in.

The research would be in a field that he is curious about.

Both are related to engineering, but sort of different ends of the engineering spectrum if that makes sense.

To me, I think that is an advantage to the research if he gets it.

I will let him pick, but he is a kid who likes to talk through things before he picks so I want to think before we start talking![/quote]

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