[Billfred]

A couple of thoughts from someone ten years removed from his freshman year:

1) Beware boredom early on, since it's possible you'll get a rude awakening. Diversify, but keep it where you can ditch the extra stuff if you have to.
2) You are the composite average of the five people you spend the most time with. If they're motivated and excited, you will be. If they're broke lazy bums, you will be.
3) I'd definitely advise you to go beyond your major. I have a marketing degree, but I took the CAD course out of USC's MechE department anyway and minored in media arts. So ignoring the fact that I'm horribly rusty in both fields, I could CAD the robot and shoot and edit the reveal video. Odd tools like that make you a better prospect down the road.
4) Hang on to the oddball stuff you grab out of boredom. In the summer of 2007, I had a long layover in Washington, DC at Union Station. That day, Chevrolet just happened to have the Volt concept on display there. This was pre-iPhone (for me anyway), pre-free-WiFi-everywhere, and I didn't really have time to go enjoy the city proper...so bored me pulled out my point-and-shoot and gave the car as much of a photo shoot as one can when one's not allowed to touch. Ten months later, as fate would have it, I applied for a job at a GM dealer--and those photos went in the portfolio. Sure enough, got the job.