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?

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I don't really understand what the difference is. What exactly do you, as a "computer software engineer" have to offer over a Computer Science graduate? You both pretty much know the same stuff, so is it just a working knowledge of UML and other "software methodologies"? The kind of stuff you can learn over a weekend?