I hope everything works out for you! Next year, I'd start looking for summer gigs around December or so, just because that's when companies (in my experience -

I hope everything works out for you! Next year, I'd start looking for summer gigs around December or so, just because that's when companies (in my experience - I'm a sophomore CS major) tend to hire for the summer. Typically, they like to get you on for a few months part-time before the summer starts, too, to work out any kinks. If that doesn't happen to fall into place for you, the only thing stopping you from creating your own little side company while waiting tables or something is yourself. Analyze your day, see what irritates you or you wish could be done better (programmatically), and write up something to fix it. Put it on Github, get to know some other coders (maybe even from around your area - I highly recommend hnDir - http://www.hndir.com/ http://www.hndir.com/ - just to see who all is around your area, and in college as well). Also, to note, to add on to the dev experience you have, I'd highly recommend checking out some iTunesU or MIT OCW courses on Algorithms and Data Structures. I would do this regardless of your situation this summer. Heck, I'd do both of these regardless of your situation this summer. There are great opportunities out there to be taken advantage of! If you ever want to work on anything, email me (in my bio)!