Before you started your career, what would you have told to your undergraduate self?

This forum has a fairly strong presence of both successful bankers and undergrads aspiring to enter finance. Moving away from the standard threads about "breaking in," reference the title. Anything you wish you knew about work or life as you were stepping off the college podium?

Could be about anything...

 

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