>>12540387My tip would probably be to pretend like you're not even in school. I don't know your situation, but the IS degree at my school was kind of the default major for every dumbass who had some vague idea like "hmmm computers seem like something someone can make money with maybe I can do this". It was a total bullshit major, almost everyone in it was a skill-less idiot, and it was almost entirely a waste of time for me.
I got an internship and later a full-time job in information security. Salary is over 6 figures. This would have happened even if I didn't go to college (besides maybe not getting past HR due to no degree), and this wouldn't have happened if I only went to college and did nothing else. I just self-taught useful skills about security and programming during college.
(If my college had had a cybersecurity major, that probably would've been a bit more useful for me, though I think it'd probably still be a lot less helpful than just learning things online.)
So that'd be my advice, if your major program is anything like mine was. Just treat it like an annoying chore to get the magic piece of paper and do your actual learning online. This probably only works if you're intrinsically motivated, though.
On a side note, believe it or not it was actually /g/ that kind of indirectly turned me from an unknowledgeable rube into someone with a career. But it was very indirect; one day randomly came across a /g/ thread that led me down a path that changed my life and some of my intrinsic motivations, basically. I wouldn't recommend trying to learn anything there 99.9% of the time.
