As a Carnegie Mellon student, I see everyone around me losing their minds over internships.

As a Carnegie Mellon student, I see everyone around me losing their minds over internships. Endless resume reviews, leetcode, begging recruiters on LinkedIn. But what if your internship was literally your own company? I feel like as students were told that there's one path. Go to class, build your resume, apply for internships, and hope someone hires you. But with AI, right now, it's the easiest time to start something yourself. I recently found out about Alibaba.com's CoCreate Pitch 2026. It has a prize pool of over $1 million and focuses on helping entrepreneurs turn their ideas into scalable businesses. And the craziest part is, they have a dedicated student track. You don't even have to register a company, and they might pay you like $200,000. Not bad for an idea sitting in your notes app. But let's be real, how do you turn your raw business idea into a pitchable, scalable one if you're just one student? Lucky for us, Alibaba.com took that into consideration and launched this tool called Accio Work. And there's a dedicated CoCreate Pitch plugin. So basically, I just typed in my idea and then it does all this research. It's actually so crazy. Within seconds, it did market research, drafted a business proposal, and structured my pitch. So if you've ever had a product idea, a side hustle, or just any idea you wanna build, don't be the person to say, I should have started. So I actually have the application Form in my bio and I highly recommend you try because your next internship might be working for yourself.