My experience

Overview

Got to work, read the company newspaper, would work on a project for 2-3 hours. Would talk to operations staff at the small plant where I worked, shoot the bull, etc. Went on site walkthroughs every morning, would sometimes go verify proper signal transmission from the plant. Started a data registry system because of the free time.||Honestly, there was a lot of free time in this internship. I taught myself a year's worth of a non-latin-alphabet language from scratch during the internship, because there was so little to do and my boss didn't mind. ||This was largely due to being a field posting. I've heard that corporate interns get better work/treatment.