We should encourage youngsters to be pro career planning, being serious about researching careers that they'd like to do and what they pay. Ask the people already in those careers what it's like in the real world, and ask them what kind of training is good and would make them want to hire you years from now.
That's what I did. And to me it's not genius. It's common sense. There's no college course that teaches initiative.
You get out of college what you put into it.
If you go to college to party, meet Mr\Mrs Right\Wrong or because you can’t think of anything else to do then “zip” and nonsense is probably what you will get out of it.