I have a friend and fellow HS senior team member (his name is Vivek) who is going to Pasadena. He is studying at Caltech this fall (an amazing thing considering he had the time to do FIRST and get a 4.0 in all honors classes and score above a 1500 in SAT). He may do an internship at JPL (If he continues a 4.0 and if I convince him enough [he doesn't like "Government Agencies"]).
I am only a junior but I have some Ideas of where I want to work
1. Start my own Engineering Firm (I have a plan, a name, and some pretty cool $-making Ideas)
2. Motorola (Yea Chicago, yea Wildstang!)
3. NASA (Preferrably JPL, but Cape Canaveral will work too)
4. Mercenary (Any company that will pay me a good, six-figure salary

[after my masters] )
So to finally answer your question, YES, I want to work at JPL, but don't expect to see me any time soon.
