Does your computer science department have an internship program and any business relationships with local businesses? If so, you could maybe get an internship

Does your computer science department have an internship program and any business relationships with local businesses? If so, you could maybe get an internship locally. That's one of the main ways I started getting to know more people in my major (because a number of them were working there as well). This was at a rather large company and was also a long time ago, though (back in the late 90s)...