>> I would just tell students getting ready
for careers just keep your mind open you don't know what's going to come your way,
and it's very hard to prepare for that,
but you can in the mean time I think you can do things on your own.
Build your skill set, get involved with the community, try something different,
you know have a story to tell when you're going for that interview
and someone asks you what do you like to do in your spare time,
or say something interesting that you've done.
I mean, you know it's easy to get kind of tunnel vision when you're a student
and looking back now I realize you know there's things I wish I could have done more,
you know gotten more involved, or just had more of that experience.
You know you're so quick to get out of there you know you want to get on with things,
but I would tell students, especially that are now to you know take your time,
maybe take a class that you wouldn't normally take, or get involved with a program or a group,
or something like that, because when you get out there your time is going
to be very limited when you're in your career.
And I always-- I would tell people now no matter what school you go to, I think getting involved
with your alumni office, or at least meeting some alumni.
I didn't do that as much when I was a student, and after I got out I realized that, I mean,
outside of your family and your close friends kind of your alumni are the next group
that really want you to succeed, and really want you to do well and represent the college well.
I think by in large the alumni at Rollins are so supportive and enjoy their experience at Rollins
and would be happy to help students coming out, and so I would recommend that as well.
I always like the quote that Hamilton Holt had for--
he was the former president of Rollins who said, "An educated person is someone
who knows something about everything and everything about something."
And I think if you think about it, I mean, you have to have a focus.
You have to say okay this is going to be what I'm really going to hang my hat on,
but you really have to kind of know a little bit about other areas, because it will come up,
and you never know where it's going to come up, but it will.
So that's kind of what I practice, and that's what I would recommend for others.