What do you wish you had known when starting college?

[MrForbes]

has it really been 25 years since I was in college? sheesh....

If you have to get a part time job, try to get one in a field where you can apply some of what you're studying....I worked at a junkyard taking cars apart, and a transmission shop taking transmissions apart....somehow that fit in pretty well with my mechnaical engineering studies, at least more than flipping burgers would have. 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.

And be careful with your punch card decks, DON'T let them get out of order!