What do I do?

As the title says, what do I do? I am feeling lost and loosing hope. I am currently a senior going into my last semester and I am not sure where to go. I want to break into investment banking but I don’t know what to do from here. I don’t go to a target school, I screwed around a lot my freshman and sophomore year and really only got my act together last semester so my gpa is not up to par. I did get a good internship last summer with a special situations firm and I am taking the financial edge investment banker course, but I know that is not enough. I am way past the window for recruitment, so I just don’t know what to do now.

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