Rising Sophomore Seeking Help

I've been a lurker on this website since my senior year of high school and have been tentatively decided on recruiting for investment banking since then. I just finished my freshman year at a non target, giant state school, and I am currently completing an internship in CRE brokerage and development that I have found interesting so far. Up until this point my interest in IB has been more on the side of "yeah I'm gonna recruit", but I haven't really taken it seriously. I have begun to network for sophomore summer and I am now fully decided that I want to recruit for EB/BB/MM IB. I wanted to come on here and ask for advice specifically about where to target for sophomore summer, how important are technicals from a non target, when to start networking for junior summer, and overall how to go about these next 6 or so months of my life. 

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Get a couple of friends you can study techs with and will keep you on track for networking. Joining a good club or student organization also helps

 

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