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Looking for an Internship

I feel overwhelmed lately.

It is not my college work. It is not my projects. It is the internship search.

My daily routine looks like this:

• Open LinkedIn.
• Check company career pages.
• Scan Discord servers.
• Browse WhatsApp groups.
• Search Hacker News.
• Look at Twitter.
• Open GitHub lists for summer internships.

I spend hours searching. I still end the day feeling like I did nothing.

The truth is I am busy. I am a third-year CS student. I build GenAI projects. I experiment with LangGraph agents. I read research papers. I follow my curiosity.

LinkedIn makes me feel behind.

I see people with three internships. I see people with 1000 LeetCode problems solved. I see people getting GSoC or multiple job offers.

I wonder what I should do next. Should I apply? Should I build? Should I network? Should I study DSA? Should I write blogs? Or should I sleep?

Probably sleep.

The hardest part of this search is not rejection. It is the lack of clarity.

You do not know why you fail.

• Is your resume bad?
• Did you apply too late?
• Is your skill level too low?
• Is your GPA the problem?
• Did 5000 people apply before you?

You build. You learn. You apply. You get rejected. You build again.

Many people measure their worth by how many applications they send. This is a mistake.

Applications are inputs. They are not outcomes.

I focus on what I control:

• Building things I care about.
• Improving my engineering skills every month.
• Documenting my learning.
• Staying curious.

Everything else is noise.

I am still applying. I am still overwhelmed. Most people in tech feel this way. We just do not post about it.

If you are refreshing career pages and questioning your path, you are in good company.

We will figure it out.

GitHub: https://github.com/Somay-kousis Portfolio: https://portfolio-sable-psi-56.vercel.app Full post: https://dev.to/casperday11/looking-for-internship-5epj

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