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The biggies are generally about what you have studied, what you are capable of doing on your own and what you want to do / learn while on the internship.
The broader your education the easier the interview will go, as folks that spend all day building lexical engines are pretty uncommon in the business world while most people can relate to email server setup, scripting in Windows or *nix and basic "good practices".
If you want to work in a very corporate environment you ought ought to have experience with pretty mainstream technologies like Visual Basic, Java and packaged software.
If you prefer more theoretical pursuits you better be able to explain your ability to contribute and efficiently be part of an effort for a limited period of time.
It is always nice to be able to honestly talk about general abilities that fit neatly into an intern's bag of skills -- rack servers, trace physical ethernet or fiber connections, apply OS patches, make sense of security vulnerability assessments, configure monitoring packages.
If you take some time to research the issues that most firms are facing that can be useful, as can research into the more specific news about the firm you are interviewing with. Financial firms face different kinds of problems than say a transportation firm, and reading up on industry trends is pretty easy to do these days. If you are realistic about the kinds of projects that your could contribute to during your internship, and present a imagine of a hard work and flexibility that goes a long way toward getting the folks on the other side of the table to be eager to get you started. Sometimes this means being able to generate ideas of the fly, in response to the interviewers descriptions of the challenges they face, while other times the firm will expect you to fit into a "pre-packaged" program they have for interns. The more you know ahead of time the better the interview will go...
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