I'll doubly recommend engaging the faculty and staff, regardless of subject. Especially for technical subjects where most of the learning is done outside the c

I'll doubly recommend engaging the faculty and staff, regardless of subject. Especially for technical subjects where most of the learning is done outside the classroom. The problem is, your adviser should be encouraging you to do this the moment you step foot on campus. It never hit me until after my junior year when I saw all the freshmen working in labs and such. Think of it this way: If you want to be a journalist, you don't just take English classes, you work on the school newspaper.