Moving from quant dev to trading

I've recently accepted a summer internship offer for quant dev at a small HFT shop in London. While I'm pretty excited to see what it's like, my long term goals are probably closer to trading than dev. What's my best path to move into this after my internship? How common is making a change like this? 

I'm a second year compsci student at a pretty good university.

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