One or two unpaid remote internship for summer break?

Rising sophomore here.

I'm deciding to do one or two remote unpaid internships at the same time. One is search fund for buy-side experience while another one is M&A advisory (more sell-side oriented). I expected the total working time per day will be 4-6 hrs if I do both and I wanted to experience both to have a better understanding of business and investment banking itself. I think doing both gives myself better choices as I'm not sure if I wanna do sell-side or buy-side in the future. The only concern is if it'll look bad on the resume as I juggled two responsibilities at the same time. Is it possible that people hiring me in the future may view this experience negatively (like they might think I didn't concentrate and do well on either side)?

Should I do...

M/A
53% (9 votes)
Search Fund
6% (1 vote)
Both
41% (7 votes)
Total votes: 17
3 Comments
 

If the goal is to learn, and if you think that you can handle both, maybe you do both and put the one that looks better on your resume. My guess is the M&A advisory role might hold more weight but I’ll defer to others here on how they feel.


That being said, I don’t know if I’d want to do two  internships that are unpaid during my summer. But that’s just me.

 

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