First year CS student

hi /prog/
I am a first year student and I want to make myself as marketable as possible once I graduate. We started our first class learning to program in Java but I feel like the stuff we learned would be pretty useless elsewhere. so, what language should I try learning on my own now?

You are taking computer science, and they have a class teaching Java.

Things you should know:
1. Java will not teach you anything about computer science. While real CS programs will have you take a programming class 1st year, it would never be Java.
2. The school you are going to is terrible. Transfer now. What you are learning is computer software engineering (and will be learning until the end), not computer science. If the teachers don't even know that, then you will have a shit education.
3. I have refused to interview applicants based soley on the fact that their resume lists a CS degree because they either really did learn CS and are useless or they went to a school that doesn't know the difference and their education is useless. I have only recocidered this twice because the provided examples. Only one could step me through the code so he was the only one ever hired after that travisty of a mistake he made when he was young, ignorant and at the mercy of an education system that is more interested in tuition than education.