What should I do next? I am confused.

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I'm from a tier 3 college. I want to have a good job but idk what really to do to get a good one. Like I just didn't learn any skill in my 1st sem, then in my 2nd sem I kinda woke up and learnt html, css and basic javascript. Tired 2-3 half beginner projects then stopped. Then in sem 3 I kinda gave up and focused more on getting marks. I'm in 4th sem rn, and I gave my full focus on CP, Leetcode + score good marks in college exams. And tbh I was seeing good results in CP bcuz I was pretty consistent in it. But I've stopped CP and Leetcode for the last 10 days cuz of endterm. Also, this semester I spent good amount of time learning the basics of ML, did 3-4 projects on it as well like Regression, classification, Decision Trees, Random Forest, etc. And I'm really interested in ML and DL and want to learn more about them.

But I was looking for some internships and summer internships and I just couldn't find one cuz most of them demand development(React, Node, etc).

Though I will most likely end up with a Research Internship during this summer break for PS1 but I want to learn smth from which I can get a decent internship. Like one of my friends got a 22k/month internship in Rust development. Like him I also want a good internship and I am ready to learn anything for it.

My current aim for summer vacation is continue Leetcode and CP + learn smth new. Can anyone suggest what should I do next?

Also, one more thing. I tried reaching out to some big uni's profs to work under them in a project. Luckily one assistant prof replied and added me to her group with 5 more students in it. I checked their linkedin profiles and they all are from tier 1 unis 😭, she's planned a Google meet on 6th May saying it's just an informal meeting but they topic she's worked on, I've no knowledge about it. That's why the research internship I mentioned above is kinda related to her topic as well. Can anyone suggest what should I tell her in the meeting.

Posted May 4, 2025, 4:48 PM UTC

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