Title: I&#x27;m a third year undergrad majoring in business, engineering, and math at a top public school. I have worked extremely hard to get a perfect GPA, and I thought that would have positioned me well for an investment banking internship this upcoming summer.<p>Unfortunately, I&#x27;m getting &quot;out-networked.&quot; I understand GPA isn&#x27;t everything, but it&#x27;s disappointing to hear that I have a slim chance at banking just because I&#x27;m not emailing&#x2F;cold-calling 3 investment bankers a day. I&#x27;m working my ass off so I can get an internship where I work 100+ hours a week doing stuff I don&#x27;t even know if I&#x27;ll enjoy. Note: neither the 3 emails &#x2F; cold-calls per day nor the 100+ hours a week is an exaggeration.<p>I&#x27;ve never looked into a software development internship. I&#x27;m consistently one of the top students in my EE programming classes, but I&#x27;m definitely not as good as the kids that have been programming since middle school. But at this point, I&#x27;m sick of recruiting for business internships and seriously considering switching.<p>I came into the business school thinking it would give me a broad array of choices, but it&#x27;s funneled me to either investment banking or management consulting. I feel like I&#x27;m better suited for software development or a startup, but I&#x27;m afraid of risking a safe &#x2F; prestigious job at an investment bank after I graduate.<p>I know it&#x27;s &quot;never too late,&quot; but I feel like my software dev prospects are nowhere near my banking prospects with about 1.5 years to graduation. What should I do?
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