DECIDING BETWEEN 2 INTERNSHIPS!

Hey guys I am currently a sophomore at a top target. Managed to land offers in investment banking and private equity this summer. Both are unpaid. Should I just stick with one for the entirety of my 14 week summer or should I try to get a little taste of each (7 weeks each)? Not sure how future employers will view doing 2 internships in 1 summer.
Would like to work at top IBD or PE firm next summer, and hope this summer will be great training for that.

Appreciate any advice

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How big are those firms? Small, MM, BB, etc.?

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
 

PE fund manages 1B, so I guess that is MM; IB is MM. I guess my dilemma is whether I can pull off 2 "short term" internships and if 7 wks is enough to accomplish enough, or as you put it "have enough bullet points" to write

 
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My friend who went to a top target (Harvard/Wharton) went back to India for his sophomore year and got two internships; both for around 7 weeks at bulge brackets (GS/MS/Citi). Ended up with BB (GS/MS/Citi) NYC for his 3rd summer. (FYI, the 3rd summer internship firm was different from his second summer firm)

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature."
 

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