>> I think the biggest thing is not to --
obviously, you want to have good grades
but the biggest thing I think when I
look back on my career, is there's two
or three things that you really need to learn.
You need to learn how to communicate.
So, any kind of classes you can take that
involves writing or involves speaking,
the more you can get comfortable being
around people, talking to people,
feeling comfortable -- if
you're in a fraternity,
I happen to be in a fraternity down here.
It's just a great way to know your
peers and how to interact with them.
So, I'd say that's number one.
Number two, what firms will look at is
something that they've been successful at.
So, in my case, I was successful at golf.
So, they didn't say well, just because I didn't
have a 3.5 versus a 3.0, they're going to look
on that resume and dig in there and
see that I was successful at golf.
The other thing is to really
learn how to network.
So, when you're coming out of school, you want
to learn to network with your family, friends,
who might be a CPA, or an attorney, or whatever.
It's not what your grades were, it's who you
know in this life to get a decent chance to walk
in the door with the way the jobs are today.
It's -- what I see these kids go
through to just get into a big company,
they're making them take personality tests
today and if you don't get a good grade
on that personality test, they're not
even going to let you get into the --
talking to one of the recruiters.
So, you really, really have to network.
So, I would say learning to networking
skills, communication skills,
and having something that's
an outside curricular activity
that demonstrates some success
that you've had in another field,
is going to go a lot longer way than worrying
about whether or not you had a 3.8, or a 4.0,
or a 3.0, because they're not going to look just
at your grades when you're looking for a job.