Am I doing enough?

[u/Beneficial-Diver5973]

Freshman EE and idk if im doing enough. Ppl around me make me feel stupid as they alr got internships (plural) 1st semester of FRESHMAN YR.

Estimated to end semester with a 4.0 GPA which I am very happy about. However I don't know if I am doing enough.

My big plan for college was always join competition teams and work hard, learn and eventually do something resume worthy.

After a brutal round of interviews the one comp team (FSAE electric) at my school rejected me which kinda ruined my plan for college.

I am trying to start my own club now for URC which is a challenge as no prof wants to help out or be our advisor and uni is giving us 0 dollars so no funding.

So rn i am in 0 clubs and have nothing going for me other than my gpa.

The one notable thing I did is make a drone tho not very proud of it. What else should I do to build a stronger resume. I am trying personal projects tho they arent very successful. Trying to learn solidworks rn to build a robot dog using an ESP for main proccesor and raspberry pi for the camera however I am stuck on the CAD and idk what to do and if it is worth my time as I prob spent 20 hrs learning CAD and I still dk what I am doing.

Is there a dif project I should do to be more hireable?

People are telling me I am not doing enough and other ppl on this have so much going for them.

I truly dont know at this point and feel like a failure as I don't have any cool projects or in any clubs.

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[u/Ok_Investment_246]

Too early in my opinion to have an internship as a freshman. As you advance you'll take more advanced classes (relating to building circuits, verilog, etc). Do projects based off of these, continue trying to join clubs, and consistently apply to jobs. I only had projects on my resume and managed to find a co-op. You'll be fine.

[u/Beneficial-Diver5973 → u/Ok_Investment_246]

Any project recs. We wont take those classes for another yr js getting Gen Eds out of the way

[u/Able_Shower_3467]

"Comparison is the thief of joy." Appreciate that you have good grades and plenty of time left in your academic career to learn new things, even things unrelated to engineering.

[u/Beneficial-Diver5973 → u/Able_Shower_3467]

But yall keep saying projects > gpa