Ask HN: Where can I find a summer internship?

Hey everyone, My name is Dan Shipper and I'm a freshman in college. I would consider myself a fairly competent programmer - I started in fifth grade - and I've worked in a variety of languages on a lot of different projects.

The biggest hole that I would say I have in my experience is that I've never worked in a professional coding environment with other programmers. I've hacked together projects with my friends and alone, but I really want to hone my skills by experiencing a production environment at a startup.

My problem is that I don't really know where to start looking. Is there a website that lists internships for students at startups? I'm based in the New York area but it probably wouldn't be a problem to relocate to the West Coast for the summer.

I'm not looking to work for Facebook or anything. Just a place that has talented, motivated people that can show me how a real startup works and give me more real world experience building something that people really use. Where do I start looking?