I am hoping that someone can help me figure out what options I have concerning my NSF fellowship and it's potential overlap with my internship year. When I go on internship I will still have a full year of my NSF fellowship funding available. I have been told that this could actually help me during internship interviews (as the site could forgo paying me, and just allow my NSF to continue to fund my studies). I have read the NSF fine print over and over and it appears that as long as your site approves the work that you are doing (and you are still enrolled at the graduate research site, as I believe you are even when you leave for internship) you can keep your funding. I know that the NRSA and other fellowships stipulate against this, but it appears that the NSF may be different. Does anyone have any experience dealing with this same issue? What about the idea that the internship site could forgo paying me and just allow my NSF to continue to fund me (as NSF stipend is a good deal more than most internships)? Does anyone know if this is true? I have also heard that I could actually "carve out" an internship position with my own NSF funding. Does this sound realistic to anyone? Would this just mean that a site that only had two spots could potentially take me as a third spot because they would not have to pay me? Thanks for your help trying to figure this out!