Internship or Research at school

betweenthetrees
Sun, 21 Feb 2016 18:41:44 +0000

I’m currently a sophomore public policy and economics double major and am doing research with one of our government professors. Last summer I had a research internship with the army and this summer I’ve sent out a few internships already, but haven’t heard back yet. My professor just asked me if I wanted to continue to do research with him this summer and I’m wondering whether I should wait it out and see if I am accepted to an internship (USAID, Brookings, Senator Mark Warner, local city, etc), or if I should go ahead and agree to do research over the summer. I plan on applying to grad schools and then hopefully going into government work (TBD on whether that is in international development, or US politics). Which would look better on my resume-having completed research or an internship?