Advice For My Past University Self As A Fresh Grad In Information Systems

Fresh grad in information systems here. For those of you who are not completely familiar, you can think of information systems as computer science but less technical and more business-y. I’ve since graduated early 2021, and have been working full-time as a junior software engineer for 4 months now in a bank. That being said, here are 4 pieces of advice I would give my younger self still in university if I could turn back time:

1) Don’t spend too much time on useless modules — GPA isn’t everything

Since young, many of us might have been taught to study hard, get excellent grades, get a good job and then work for 40 years til we retire. I’ve seen this mentality carry over to university for many of my peers — GPA and grades seem to be the entire world for many of them.

While getting good grades is probably a decent goal, we as students are often pressured to conform to outdated and illogical grading rubrics in order to maintain our GPA:

• Useless and irrelevant modules — because the school wants us to receive holistic all-rounded education, we as students have to take stuff like “asian studies”, “pop culture”, “managing in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment” which doesn’t add much…