Another Confused College Student Looking for Insight

Hi, I'm currently a junior at a T25 school just transferred in this year and for the longest time I wanted to do finance (more buy side than sell side). However, I had a really interesting and unique soph internship very unrelated to finance but did not get an offer back and at the same time got way behind on recruiting. After transferring, everyone is working at BB or EB and so, the glamour of it also went away. Now, I'm soul searching what to do next and really confused. Do I still pursue full-time finance recruiting (hard but not impossible), macroeconomic research, strategy or economic consulting? I just dont know where to start and I'm terrified I wont get an internship this summer. Does anyone have any thoughts or advice?

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