Where to go from here?

<p>Hey, I've been on this forum before, so yeah. Just finished 1st semester of my first year. Gonna get a 4.0 on 17 creds, 13 of them in my major, MechE. I made a couple of connections during the semester with faculty but other than that didn't get involved much in non-classwork stuff. So what should I do now? I mean I still don't have any hands on experience. I'd like to get an internship next summer. One of my classes wa an introduction to design class in which I worked on a team in designing a product and we made it. But yeahI don't have a lot of technical skills at this point. Should I contact some profs. about lab owrks net semester or should I try to maybe learn some software over the winter break?</p>

<p>ds did all the above.
he also joined a club that built things</p>