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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. DC was really excited about the experiment and its goals, but quickly realized that the work itself was pretty tedious. Measure this, mix with that, and if you make a mistake, you need to discard everything and start over. DC is also very social but found the lab isolating. As I said, science is not my area, so I wasn’t able to advise, but it did seem likely to me that this environment might be pretty typical for lab work. If you disagree, please share. No one was pushing DC at all, except for always suggesting that research is a likely path for those interested in science. [/quote]

Of course it was tedious - they were a high school intern! Even a lot of college internships and even entry level jobs are like that.[/quote]

The point of an internship isn’t for the student to evaluate whether they think the work they are doing as an intern is interesting or tedious, but to look at what the experienced people in that field are doing. What gets them fired up about their jobs?  Is that appealing to the intern?  If an intern can observe what those around them are doing, they can get some sense of whether that field is a good fit for them. For example, an intern who is doing filing, xeroxing and getting coffee shouldn’t be looking at whether they want to do filing for the rest of their life, but if the jobs of upper-level employees still look tedious to them, that is something to consider. [/quote]

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