I finally ended up somewhere! (English)

TLDR: After 5 months of internship hunting, I finally secured a Software Engineering intern on Ads MSP team at TikTok, based in San Jose. My first internship application was made around September 2026, but looking back, I wasn’t doing enough—or at least, I wasn’t being smart enough—during my fall semester. I submitted around 100 job applications with a subpar resume, not realizing I was just…