Hi! id like to ask for some help/advice. i’m currently a rising college senior studying data science and this summer i unfortunately did not land an internship which is stressing me out as next year i would be trying to find a full time role. I just want to ask you for any advice you would give for me to do for this summer in order to prepare me for the recruiting process (I also don’t have that much experience and don’t know how or when to start) I would really appreciate any help! Thank you!

Hi I am currently a freshman in university. I have planning to do some personal projects to beef up my portfolio and resume and also to improve my skills. I also have been learning courses on Udemy. There are code-along guided projects in Udemy and I have been coding along and also learning from it. My question is would it be appropriate to use these projects as part of my personal projects. I am not sure if that is counted as a personal project since it is guided but at the same time I find it can be a little waste if I spend so many hours everyday coding these projects but I cannot show it as part of my portfolio.

Hey Baxare, you said in your post that side hustles < career/schoolwork. However, I have a side hustle that I am currently making $1k/mo with 3-4 hours/wk and I can see myself scaling to $10-12k/mo at <15 hours/wk. Should I focus on my cs work more or dedicate time to this? I am a graduating senior in high school and will be attending an overall T30 school studying computer science.

Studied Health Sciences on a Physical Therapy track my first 1.5 years of university while playing baseball. Had 2 huge shoulder injuries eventually forcing me to give up baseball. Simultaneously my school merged with another school and halted the PT program and baseball program of course so I dropped out. Been out for 1 year now and have been working at the local post office full time stacking money. Want to get back into school now and want to do CS to stay in STEM related classes so my previous 1.5 years of credits will translate over into my next field. My gpa is a 3.0 from my previous 1.5 years of STEM so I was thinking of attending a local CC to get my gpa up and smoothly transition into the field of CS. Thoughts? Any Advice? Thanks guys.

Hello Baxate 👋 I noticed in one of your posts you mentioning that in 2020, you continued to work part-time in the fall for the same summer internship. How did you make this possible? I am currently in a summer internship and I would like to continue working part-time when I go back to school (I have a year left). Thanks 🙏🏻