Rising junior, rejected from 400+ internships last semester. What am I doing wrong?? Please chance.

[loud shell]

What do I need to add to be able to actually get an internship for 2025??

[misty remnant]

were you actually rejected from 400+ internships?

also is that startup a YC one?

[loud shell]

No lmfao I wish

And yes

[loud shell]

All cold apps tho

[misty remnant]

my advice for you is to either:

join a internship program, that gives you a internship at a partner company

or B, try to work as a undergrad researcher or at a Y combinator startup

[loud shell]

How do I find such a program?

[misty remnant]

depends on your uni

sometimes not even

[loud shell]

Well, my current internship offered me to return next summer so I will do that if I don’t find anything

[misty remnant]

try inroads

its a pretty good program

i got my current internship from a program called genesys works

[loud shell]

I’m hoping I can get into an REU, I’m going to be a course assistant and do more research in this semester so I will have even more experience

Ok, I will look into that

Thank you

[misty remnant]

and the company (UHG) gave me a opportunity to renew for this year

the only downside to geneyss is that you can't apply as a college student

[misty remnant]

so i recommend looking into inroads first

another good idea is just DM'ing YC founders

and ask them if they could use interns

[loud shell]

How would u chance me for big n internships?

Not faang but like banks and such

Just something well known

[misty remnant]

honestly you have a pretty good chance

if anything, you could get a internship here at uhg easy

i'd just niche the projects down a bit more

[loud shell]

Ok, I gotcha

That is definitely true, my projects are the weakest link here

[misty remnant]

for example, I try to snipe sysdev internships, so my proejcts are a OS kernel and a p2p file transfer network

my friend loves graphics programming

so he has some games and physics simulations

[loud shell]

Do you think it would be a good idea to replace them with that research/course assistant position when I do them in the semester?

Ok, that sounds good. I’m quite interested in systems programming too, I want to develop a basic compiler. Do u think that’s a decent resume project

[misty remnant]

yeah that's a solid project

[loud shell]

Ok gotcha. Thanks, sound advice and I needed to hear it

[misty remnant]

learn some compiler theory rq, and build a simple C compiler or smth like that

[loud shell]

I need to stop neglecting my projects

[misty remnant]

also another tip is that there are discords for just about any type of coding

including a one for compilers

they really help when learning the theory behind the field

[loud shell]

Can you DM me them?

I would really appreciate that, I’m working my way through a type theory textbook rn

[misty remnant]

sure thing

https://proglangdesign.net/

@loud shell discord link is on the front page

[cunning rapids]

I’m a risinf sophmore Do you think inroads would help get an internship for summer?

[misty remnant]

yeah it would

you compete with a much smaller pool of applicants

as long as you have a well written resume, you should be good