Your college years should have two practical benefits. You should be learning a lot, and you should prove to your future employer ( or investor) that you can get stuff done.
The default way to do this is to get great grades, which covers both bases. But other paths are often much more worthwhile. You can start an organization or become the leader of one. You can do a startup. You can film your documentary, produce an album, or write for newspaper - the imagination is the limit.
Make sure that you finish the project. Otherwise, you can't prove to others and yourself that you can actually bear down and gut something out.
I got a 3.2 GPA because I wouldn't do school work I didn't thought was necessary. If I didn't need to do problem sets to learn the material and ace the tests, I would just skip them and take the hit to my grades. Instead I spent time working on software projects that actually launched. This proved that I could get things done and resulted in great job offers.
The default way to do this is to get great grades, which covers both bases. But other paths are often much more worthwhile. You can start an organization or become the leader of one. You can do a startup. You can film your documentary, produce an album, or write for newspaper - the imagination is the limit.
Make sure that you finish the project. Otherwise, you can't prove to others and yourself that you can actually bear down and gut something out.
I got a 3.2 GPA because I wouldn't do school work I didn't thought was necessary. If I didn't need to do problem sets to learn the material and ace the tests, I would just skip them and take the hit to my grades. Instead I spent time working on software projects that actually launched. This proved that I could get things done and resulted in great job offers.