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Re: What do you wish you had known when starting college?
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Originally Posted by squirrel
... In lieu of a job, get involved with a project such as an SAE car, or helping a FIRST team (if you're in engineering), or anything else that lets you apply what you're learning. You really don't learn well until you can put the new info to use somehow.
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Help your local FIRST team even if you're not in engineering. The benefit of putting your learning to use applies equally well to non-technical learning.
One of our team leaders is starting college in the Fall and plans to major in Journalism. She is mainly responsible for this year's STL winning WFA essay. I'm sure she will be a tremendous asset to an FRC team near her college -- I think they've already started recruiting her!
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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