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For quite some time I have been following the mozine and later PMO. So I am absolutely thrilled to have this opportunity, and this also means that this blog will get a new topic added. Not only will I get to know many more interns with whom I am going to live in Mountain View, and not only will I participate in the Mozilla project together with all the great people at the MoCo HQ. But also I will be attending the Mozilla Summit, the biennial meeting of people from all over the world that made great projects such as the Firefox web browser and AMO possible.
My internship position will be at the metrics department led by Ken Kovash and quite probably I will be allowed to go into the details of my project there, either at this blog or at a Mozilla blog.
If you plan to go abroad to the U.S. for an internship, I suggest you apply for the internship position(s) of your choice at least two months before the actual start of the internship. I was a bit late to the party and that led to a rather tight schedule: As a Germany based student at RWTH Aachen University, I had to invest some time in getting the visa. But fortunately there is a very helpful visa sponsoring partner, so everything went smoothly after all.
I do not know about other areas, but as a student in computer science you can expect compensation for an internship in the U.S. which is not necessarily the case in Germany. I applied at two organizations, and in both cases their offers covered living expenses and the flight to California. So I really do recommend that next spring you visit the web site of any company or organization you always wanted to get to know, and apply for an internship there. Make sure that the professional and academic experience on your resume matches the position you apply for, and prepare for two to three phone interviews.
