Paul Graham has some nice advice on this in his essay, What You'll Wish You'd Known. http://paulgraham.com/hs.html http://paulgraham.com/hs.html "In the gradua

Paul Graham has some nice advice on this in his essay, What You'll Wish You'd Known. http://paulgraham.com/hs.html http://paulgraham.com/hs.html "In the graduation-speech approach, you decide where you want to be in twenty years, and then ask: what should I do now to get there? I propose instead that you don't commit to anything in the future, but just look at the options available now, and choose those that will give you the most promising range of options afterward."