For sure. I have had a student assistantship for the past three and a half years, but I took a leave of absence from it over the summer to pursue a separate int

For sure. I have had a student assistantship for the past three and a half years, but I took a leave of absence from it over the summer to pursue a separate internship in industry (the student assistantship is in academia/federally funded research center). It was great seeing the difference between academia and industry and I'll be graduating in December with my BS in CS with a job lined up in industry. My student assistantship started the summer after my senior year of high school and I attribute some of it to my prior experience since my high school didn't provide much in the way of CS classes so I lacked a formal education but it wasn't a full time job either.