Guy Kawasaki, one of my favourite bloggers, writes a great piece on the "Top Ten Things to Learn This School Year." I’ve said many times that the problem with a lot of recent grads I see in any field is that they think that their degree is going to get them a job. Totally wrong. Since I’ve graduated, I’ve not once been even asked about what my degree was in (good thing, too, since mine sounds TOTALLY made up).
I especially like the part on learning how to negotiate. I did a lot of that when I was in school, with the registrar, with the professors of courses I was trying to get into – it was pretty much a daily thing. One of the advantages of going to a school with an utterly incompetent administration, I suppose.
If you do things right, you’ll learn more from your experience at university than you will from your classes. Of course, you should probably learn something from your classes, too.
