College Advice

For those of you who have actually worked in the field, what kind of suggestions or advice could you give to a college freshman going into Computer Science? Things to do in spare time, what's important to learn and what isn't, fields to look into, etc etc, whatever you find relevant.

(P.S. My college teaches C, I've been programming since high school, and I have been reading SICP)

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Really? *just* C++ or Java? Man, that sucks... What the hell are the other really great programming languages like Python used for then?

Also, we learn C and C++ here, so they do teach OO stuff (even though I already know it from previous learning before college). It's the core though, so after getting through the 4 core courses you can choose courses that let you specialize. My university in no way needs to "catch up", I would be more inclined to think other schools have fallen behind by going to JavaSchool path. The Abstract Bullshite is what's important in college, after you have the foundation you can do whatever crap language you need to since the language shouldn't matter anyways, right?