Forgot to post this... but I am no longer in high school! *GIF party?*

"Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen" (sportwagen) 05/19/2015 at 11:03 • Filed to: None

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YES! I graduated! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Gabor Vajda (@Gabor_V) > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 11:07

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Nicely done! All you have left is 50 years of work.

CB > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 11:08

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Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Gabor Vajda (@Gabor_V) 05/19/2015 at 11:09

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Nah, still need to go through college (Uni, depending where you are) for another 4 years, then I get to work for 50 years!

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > CB 05/19/2015 at 11:10

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$kaycog > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 11:13

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HOORAY!

mcseanerson > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 11:26

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Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 11:42

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And now the real work begins.

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 12:09

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Congratulations!

Where are you going to college, and what are you planning to major in?

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > $kaycog 05/19/2015 at 13:01

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Thanks $kay!

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > mcseanerson 05/19/2015 at 13:01

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With jobs? True

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Snuze: Needs another Swede 05/19/2015 at 13:02

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I’m going to Oklahoma Christian University in Edmond, OK to study Computer Engineering

$kaycog > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 13:03

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Thank you!

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > $kaycog 05/19/2015 at 13:10

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You’re quite welcome ;)

Snuze: Needs another Swede > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 13:41

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Awesome! That’s great. My best advice as some who took 2 tries to get through college:

Go to class, do your homework

Party and have fun, take a crazy road trip, make some awesome memories

Don’t do No. 2 so much that it interferes with No. 1. This is the point in your life where you learn to be an adult. Adults have to balance responsibilities and play time. You may screw up a few times, but it’s all part of the learning experience.

Be social, go to parties, campus activities, etc. You’ll meet a lot of different people, from different backgrounds, which can be interesting and humbling.

Take classes that interest you, especially for your out of major requirements. Don’t take classes because you think you can skate and heard it’s an easy A.

Join a club activity/competition that’s relevant to your major, like Formula SAE, etc. (I don’t know what computer engineers do, but I’m sure IEEE has similar things. Or just do SAE because it’s awesome, still relevant to your degree, and its a great place for gearheads)

Get internships. Go to as many career fairs as you can, and do your best to get a summer internship, even after your freshman year. You’ll probably get rejected, most companies don’t hire freshman interns, but it’s good experience. Everyone gets nervous about talking to employers, interviewing etc, so this is your chance to get free practice.

I think that’s about it, but I’ll let you in on a secret - 1 is important, but 6 & 7 are probably more so in terms of landing a job. Almost everyone can do No. 1 - go put in the minimum effort and do what’s required and get passing grades and graduate. But those are people who are going to get passed over when looking at resumes, or bore the interviewer to tears, and they wind up spending $80k to get a B.S. in Engineering and go back to live in mom’s basement and work at a local ice skating rink driving a Zamboni.

Getting internships shows you’re a go-getter and a hard worker, and doing a club activity shows you can work on a team, and are interested in personal enrichment and again, have that drive to do more than what’s required. You wouldn’t believe how well job interviews have gone for me after I mention my FSAE experience and find out the interviewer also did FSAE in college.

So again, congratulations and best of luck.

mcseanerson > Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen 05/19/2015 at 13:46

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To adult life. Granted you won’t really hit that until after college.

Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen > Snuze: Needs another Swede 05/19/2015 at 13:47

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Thanks for the advice!