Not sure what I am doing wrong with regards to applying towards internships.

Hey man, good to know you're already working on your resume as a 2nd year student. A lot of CS students don't bother until its too late. For your reference, I'm a recent CS graduate looking for a full-time job. I worked on my resume a lot from advice here, and have gone through a lot of harsh/rude criticisms until I got it right. Don't let anyone rude bother you, you're on the right track. Here are things I would fix:

1) Add more bullet points to your experience. You've been there for a few months, you should have more than one bullet point. Make it less general, and expand it by being more specific: what type of machines? What type of tech support? Also, work a bit on the wording -- "did" is a bit of a weak verb to start with. One main focus for resumes is to always use productive past-tense verbs, i.e. "designed/developed/assisted/managed" etc. It makes it much more professional.

2) Get rid of "classes planned" from your education. It doesn't really matter to the employer what you haven't learned yet. Also make your description a bit shorter -- you don't need a sentence describing you are a second year. You can just list "Sophomore pursuing B.S. in Computer Science" or something.

3) I would personally move education to the top, so that your extracurricular and awards are next to each other, since they seem to be related.

4) I would add more projects, if you have any that are worth adding. As a sophomore, you aren't expected to have giant projects, but decent sized class projects are definitely worth putting on there, even if you don't think they're much. I would also expand a bit on the project you have listed there -- what languages, what challenges you faced, what technologies did you use?

5) I would get rid of the "operating systems" portion of your resume, unless you are really a linux guru and are applying to a linux job.

6) It says you use Git in your tools, it would be nice to have a link to a github account with some code samples.

7) I would work with an editor like TeXWorks and find a resume template to make it nice and professional. This may take a couple hours of work, but definitely worth it. The resume is what reflects who you are as a person to the employer -- they don't see anything else, so its important to put a lot of effort into it.

8) Extracurricular -- I would separate the block of text into past tense bullet points.

If you work on all of these, you will definitely have a solid resume. Best of luck!

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