It would be nice not to have to move for the summer. I applied for 15 positions all around the country but made sure to apply to a few in NYC, where I lived. I applied online on NASA’s internship website OSSI, which you can find here. It was my senior year in high school and it started in the traditional way. My first internship was at NASA at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Note: if you read Chris Hadfield’s book (Canadian astronaut, commander of the ISS, player of David Bowie in space) You’ll get another tale of how life often deviates from the traditional paths we expect.
so what do I bring to the table? Simple, none of my internships took the traditional path. They contain guidance from counselors or top-tier students and are often arranged into nice 7 item listicles. While writing this post I found myself asking, isn’t there enough posts on the internet that can fit into the category “How to get an internship”? Yes, there are. I figured I would write up my experiences with getting an internship. My GPA is about a 3.3, I don’t come from a school with a lot of name recognition, and yet I’ve come to work shoulder to shoulder with people from MIT and who have had perfect 4.0 GPA’s. One summer was spent as an intern at NASA, and the other two were spent at Draper. I’ve had three summer internships so far and this summer I have an REU lined up (Note: This coming fall I will be entering Grad school to begin my PhD). As I write this post, I’m about to finish my senior year studying aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo.
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