Most college students are enrolled mainly because they believe that having a degree is essential to their future success. The trouble is that the piece of paper attesting that they’ve gotten enough credits to graduate isn’t nearly sufficient; students need to work at finding a job they want but the school usually isn’t much help.


In today’s Martin Center article, Zak Slayback, a principle in a venture-capital fund and author of the forthcoming book How to Get Ahead offers up a lot of advice for students who hit the ground running once they’ve finished college (or even before).

I suggest sending Slayback’s article to every college student you know.