Has anyone here gotten a freshman internship whilst being the most average candidate ever?

Listen, take this however you want, but I knew a girl in my second year, who somehow got an internship at faang through some program at my school.

This girl couldn’t code or if she could, I never seen it in the 2 classes we took together. She cheated on every assignment and exam. She literally texted me one day and just straight up asked for my class project. At one of our finals, when I was handing in my paper, I looked over at her and she was writing while looking at someone else’s exam. I really don’t even know how the professor didn’t catch her. He probably knew but didn’t care.

I highly doubt she had any personal projects.

The only other time she contacted me was to stunt on me telling me about her big internship.

I’m not a hater so I congratulated her, never spoke to her since. Lol.

I tell you this story as motivation, that anyone could do it. It just depends how much of an opportunist you can be sometimes.

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