Ask HN: What should I do if I don't get a summer internship?

Re:Ask HN: What should I do if I don't get a summer internship? by johan_larson on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @06:09AM (#9568965)

If you don't get a formal internship for the summer, I suggest you try to build something useful that you could show a prospective employer. Given your background, this will probably be a web site. Two and a half months is enough to build something real.

Does either of your side projects solve a real problem that people have?

If not, look for some sort of frustrating inefficiency that you or your friends at school run into all the time. Then build a solution.

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Re:Ask HN: What should I do if I don't get a summer internship? by nargawharg on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @06:45AM (#9569064)

This is my tentative life plan...assuming I can convince my parents that this is, in the long run, the best use of my time for the summer instead of working somewhere else. This brings into question though how big of a project are we talking? I always hear this advice tossed around, yet never with any specifics regarding time spent/users/LOC/metric of choice.

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