Rising senior

I feel like I have wasted my opportunities in college. I go to a pretty prestegious university so everyone keeps telling me i will get a job and be fine but i dont think i'm fine. I'm class of 2027. I haven't done a real internship and my only experience is through research assistant positions and things in the university. other than that i've done a lot of tutoring work and have debating even going into that more professionally but don't even think i am qualified. I have a good GPA but I feel so embarrassed by my resume and lack of experience to the point where I am embarassed to go to our career center or an advisor. I feel like they'll just look at my resume and judge me for wasting my time? I also am not that passionate about CS, at least in terms of SWE. I like the data analyst side of it more, and in terms of coding I have enjoyed courses about AI and ML. But I know for AI/ML in order to get into grad school you have to have published or done notable research. And I don't even think I could get into grad school and even if i did i cannot afford a masters degree. All the RA work I have done I don't think is that impressive. And I am not even getting interviews for data analyst roles anyway so I am very lost on my career rn. i feel like i have no goal and no matter what i do there is no clear path to me. i'm at the point where i just want someone to tell me what types of jobs they think i can get realistically so i can shoot for those and have that stability and then decide from there where to go.

Posted Aug 14, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

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