Relate your education to what you actually want to do when you finish. • Don’t use graduate school, or any other course of study, as a form of life avoidance. Pursue the course only if there’s a good reason. • Much of higher education consists of learning to make yourself look good. It’s an essential skill, but you might as well learn something else while you’re there too. • Regardless of how you feel about college or university, consider some form of alternative learning to increase your knowledge.