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I Think Looking for Internships Has Become My Full-Time Job
Lately, I've been feeling overwhelmed.
Not because of college. Not because of projects.
Because of internships.
Every morning starts with the same routine:
- Open LinkedIn.
- Open company career pages.
- Check Discord servers.
- Check WhatsApp groups.
- Check Hacker News jobs.
- Check Twitter/X.
- Open another tab with "Summer 2027 internships GitHub".
And somehow, after hours of searching, I still end the day feeling like I haven't done enough.
The weird part is that I'm not doing nothing.
I'm a third-year CS student. I spend a lot of my time building GenAI projects, experimenting with LangGraph agents, reading papers, and generally going down random rabbit holes because curiosity refuses to leave me alone.
Yet whenever I open LinkedIn, it suddenly feels like everyone else is ahead.
Someone has already done three internships.
Someone else has solved 1000+ LeetCode problems.
Someone just got selected for GSoC.
Another person casually announces that they have offers from five companies.
And there I am, wondering if I should be applying, building, networking, grinding DSA, contributing to open source, writing blogs, or sleeping.
Probably sleeping.
The hardest part about internship hunting isn't rejection.
It's ambiguity.
You don't know whether your resume is bad.
You don't know whether you applied too late.
You don't know whether you got rejected because of your skills, your projects, your CGPA, or because 5000 other students clicked "Easy Apply" before you.
So you keep doing everything.
You build.
You learn.
You apply.
You get rejected.
You build again.
And somewhere in between all of this, you start measuring your self-worth through application counts.
I've realized that's a dangerous game.
Because applications are inputs, not outcomes.
The only things fully under my control are:
- Building things I genuinely care about.
- Becoming a better engineer every month.
- Documenting what I learn.
- Staying curious.
Everything else is noise.
I'm still applying. A lot.
I'm still overwhelmed.
But I guess most people in tech secretly are. We just don't post about it often. Research and community discussions suggest that feeling overwhelmed is surprisingly common among software developers and interns.
So if you're also refreshing career pages every few hours and questioning your entire existence after every rejection, you're definitely not alone.
We'll figure it out.
Eventually.
GitHub: https://github.com/Somay-kousis
Portfolio: https://portfolio-sable-psi-56.vercel.app