Tech Skills that I should learn to increase my chance in getting my first internship sophomore year of college?

Hey, yall!

I am an upcoming sophmore in University of Minnesota, and today I was looking at the current internship/ entry level job postings out there in Indeed and Handshake. I became increasingly worried and scared that I will not be able to get my first internship next summer due to amount of skills many of the companies expect me us, even at entry level.

So far, the skills/languages I have taught myself as a freshmen in college are React.js, Socket.io (Web Sockets), Node.js, Python (mostly fundamentals), fetching api data, and MongoDB.

The only BIG personal project I have worked on and completed to the very end is a multiplayer chess website (w/ React and Socket Io) with no tutorial help and is similar to chess.com, but no data is being saved about the individual players, just users playing chess online other users randomly.

What advice would you give me on the skills/languages I should learn next to increase me chances of getting an internship next year? What skills do you think most companies look for?

Posted Jun 15, 2025, 3:07 AM UTC

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