Advice for freshmen entering college
felideon: - Make sure you work on cool side projects to keep your hacking motivation up.  I regret wasting all my time on stupid games online or just chatting with people.  I'd much rather have a few cool projects under my sleeve.- Look for hacker-friendly internships in the summer.  I really wish I had done internships instead of trying to breeze through college by taking Summer semester classes.  My resumé still looks as if I'm straight out of college[1] and I graduated 3 years ago.[1]  In the sense that I don't have much experience out of my current employer where I've been working at since college.