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Comment Nothing to see here... move along. (Score 2, Informative) 74

Meh... the Swedes will launch a corruption investigation if a kid gets a penny toffee without paying for it.

And it's no secret that the selection committees have made mistakes in the past (the icepick lobotomy, anyone?) that only become clear with the benefit of hindsight.

In either case, never ascribe to corruption what can be adequately explained by incompetence.

Comment Do both? (Score 1) 83

At this stage, go for industrial experience --- we already have too many academics who have none or whose experience is severely out of date.

Your industrial exposure will do you nothing but good. You will be exposed to a completely different environment where you can't just "do enough to pass". You will make new friends and you will learn a hell of a lot. In my experience, Universities are very boring places once the undergraduates go for the summer.

After you graduate, with a couple of years experience, you may find many academic institutions delighted to have you work part-time, so it's not necessarily an "either or" choice. You can do both as I have done for a few years -- I do "real work" for money, and academic project supervision for kicks.

Given the choice, I'd do something more academically oriented myself. Unfortunately, it pays very badly compared with industry and I like eating regularly, some level of warmth, and clothing without large holes in it (the last academic position I was offered would barely have covered my rent).

Do what you want to do and what feels right. You are, I assume, young enough to make a few mistakes, change direction, and have a lot of fun in the process.

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