Ask HN: What "project" should I work on to get a SWE job?

I'm a senior CS major, looking for internships for the summer and also of course a full-time job for when I graduate in December.

I keep being told to do some projects or something.

But what exactly should I do?

I'm kind of worried because outside of class I never code for my own sake. Feel like in class we are always working on some project, often complicated projects, but no employer wants to hear about that. They only want to hear about things you've done outside the syllabus.