After attending the Thursday seminar “How to Succeed in College and Beyond: the Art of Learning”, I have learned from professor Schwarz that it is very important to get to know your professors. He suggests that for every term that we have we should at least get close with one professor because this person is responsible for recommendations in the future and they can hook you up with other academic opportunities. I found it very amusing when the professor mentioned a story about his son finding out that his teacher has beer with his students because I would not even expect to get into a scenario like that, especially if it were to happen at Cornell. Either way the grad school application process is no joke and Schwarz emphasizes this very much as students grow throughout college.