Typically the summer after freshman year it’s hard to get an internship. Not impossible. Many, many kids take classes. 2 classes at our cc was less then $1,000 total (out of our district). Same 2 classes at Michigan with room /board was like $8,000 or more of I remember correctly. In my kids classes were engineering students from Georgia Tech, Michigan, Berkeley, Stanford, UIUC and so on. They were actually hard classes but much cheaper. So that was a win. Again, just different options.