Struggling to get freshman internship

I've used searchfunder website, cold emailed, and cold LinkedIn messaged people. Trying to find an internship, unpaid, for this fall through spring (or through summer possibly). What is the best way to go about this?

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You want search? Template up an email and blast them to every search fund in existence. I got an offer in high school for a search fund, so it should not be a struggle. I sent out maybe ~30 emails, got one response, one interview, one offer. Simple as that, don't overcomplicate things.

Now recruiting for everything else, I haven't quite figured that out yet myself either. Fuck.

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