Junior in college with a CS major here. For background, I find myself feeling pressure from multiple sides to get an internship because thats supposed to make me more employable. Thing is I don't really WANT to do an internship, period.
They sound nice, really. I could work remotely and make decent money for the Summer. (Some offers actually pay less than retail and food service now but I disregard those.) However I just don't feel like sacrificing a whole Summer break that I could be using to visit family, travel to a few places on my bucket list, and generally just get a break from coding I'm already burnt out on. It's not like I won't have 40 years to gain experience afterwards so I'm in no rush.
But no, apparently not interning makes me unemployable. In fact, I should actually spend countless hours of my free time “coding for fun” so I can have a nice github porfolio to flash at prospective employers just so they can grace me with an entry level job offer. Nobody cares about a degree I spent thousands of dollars on saying I'm qualified.
Its all just BS to me at this point, and I'm willing to take the risk associated there in not interning more out of spite than anything at this point.