No internship for 2021 - what do I do?

Hi everyone,

I‘m currently a freshman of a four year course. I want to get into Investment Banking so I applied to many related internships but I ended up not getting anything for this summer, so far, which is very frustrating.
My questions:

- is it too late to still find something for this summer now?

- will it still be possible for me to get into spring weeks without having an internship my freshman summer?

- how can I spend my 3 month break at least a bit productively? I don’t just want to sit at home all summer doing nothing... 

Appreciate any advice you might have or if you’ve been in a similar situation, how it affected your career/how it worked out for you!

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