I was a Unix systems administrator for many years, then went back to school to get a bachelors - a CS degree. What they taught was good - theory of computation

I was a Unix systems administrator for many years, then went back to school to get a bachelors - a CS degree. What they taught was good - theory of computation, graph theory, data structures and algorithms, (DBMS) databases, computer architecture etc. I took an AI class, not all that many years ago, but the field has progressed so fast, most of what I learned is no longer in vogue - we certainly weren't programming neural networks with weights and biases that used backpropagation. It did strike me that some of the brighter seniors had no idea what git was, or even software version control. Applying early for summer internships is a must, or at least learning this type of thing after school. As is often said, probably the least important thing to learn is whatever the current fad hottest computer language is. College is not a vocational school.