Feeling questioner wanted to know when the students into the work, pay attention to or increase the place to go on thinking.
This problem is actually quite interesting, especially after the last two years I start with people, there are few things to note after a good can indeed help a lot more to adapt to the new grad student work and professional development. (I remember when I graduated, in 2010, has just entered the working time made many mistakes; now think about it, she really is food, but also quite a few detours).
So here I recall summed up next, probably to take good care of these points. (Because it is in the United States graduate school and join Silicon Valley companies, so there are individual points for North America; but the majority view is still relatively common, the industry is: Internet + computer.)
1. Take the initiative and thinking Lanhuo
If the college, teachers have arranged something for you but also the task deadline and the like. In the beginning of the work seems to have led to their assigned tasks; if the tower or teambition words, there are some tasks deadline, and go to school when seemingly the same. If you think so wrong.
Like the work of leadership is that you can be proactive (pro-active, the bad translation of the word) can autonomously to the responsible thing to do. You want to be able to plan their own things, but have good ideas (and is capable of landing) and they can go to the timely feedback.
General leadership only when you entry the beginning, like a teacher to give you as homework, and even some care and concern, but in the end all you can hope to grow up and work independently. Let me give a simple example: the beginning of the entry, you just like LOL, like the hero born, you have to do is line up with knives, fight mobs, as if to complete a task, like; but you need to have in mind a this clear awareness: to make up a knife fight mobs line is just a process (transition phase), not all; its purpose is to give up your experience level rose up the money, then your goal is to be able to work independently can develop into a Ye can gank can go out and play team battles and able to cope with and complementary to the entire team of heroes!
You're not Daguai machine, nor is it up a knife expert, these are just a process, so you can not just watch their eyes completed several tasks (new tasks are generally small size of small bug or feature) today, while is thought by themselves accomplish these tasks can grow much, or what he started out to gank team battles still lack? How to completion?
2. Do not just stay in their own familiar circle
This I have done is not very good, just the beginning of the work before the race I felt myself to write programs faster than others so little, so he could care circles and relationships. So I am familiar only gradually and some Chinese friends (enough to circle internationalization) for dinner and play. In the end I realized that when an engineer to do a level above, the importance of the ability of your code exponential decline in your soft skill (in addition to the programming capabilities of soft power) is increasingly important.
Then your circles and connections (even in the company) becomes more and more important. So, I suggest you force yourself into mainstream circles. For example: "team lunch" kind of thing, no matter what they are monsters, what to eat unpalatable things you are going, is mandatory. Domestic, and if you are an engineer, then we would take the initiative to other departments and other departments or companies communicate and collaborate, not simply buried write code.
3. Look and future trends rather than immediate
Which I think is something the students just entering the work when the most common mistakes. The fundamental reason is the general student did not have much money horizons, so after the start to make money, just some income that is easy to meet, in order to settle down down.
I see a lot of new graduates in the company pick or pick a job, not to see the future (trend), but look at the eyes. Very typical example is the year when I joined Facebook, the next classmate asked me why not Google or Apple, then their Android and iPhone, as well as search and Mac business flourishing, why go to a social networking site? (Not available at the time Facebook Instagram, Whatsapp and Oculus VR) Some people even have offer Google and Microsoft offer or the offer Facebook, and finally chose to go to Google's. Some people just look at wages and cash, stock and option do not study even put on a do not care attitude. Some people even say that Google cafeteria food more, say Google because there is free swimming pool or washing machine, really dumbfounding.
创业路上有一句话叫做 顺势而为。看清以后发展的趋势非常重要，而且你在这个公司或者这个领域要起步之前（看清楚，是之前）就赶紧跳上去；这样才能最大限度地借势公司的成长（而不是在公司已经飞得很高的时候上去）。这些道理说出来大家好像都很明白，但是在亲自选择的时候很难不犯错误，因为人们总是不愿意思考以后的不确定性而趋向于选择当下的安逸。不然这里问几个问题？ 你是选择 BAT 还是 创业公司？ 是选择 互联网金融的领域 还是 O2O 领域？ VR/AR 是走向爆发还是扯淡？（对的，您要思考！同学）
4. Prioritize your tasks
具体说来就是：学习上的课程是有限的，作业也有有限的，而且还有相对明确的deadline和最后一个期末考试；考试完结后，几乎学业清空一段时间。
但是在工作上你会发现你没有一个类似暑假或者寒假的东西，另外最可怕的是你的活是干不完的 --- 对的，是无穷无尽的。特别你是在一个上升期的互联网公司的话，给你任务的速度很多时候是超过你的处理速度的。所以这个时候，你在接到一个被分配的任务或者一个email要求你干什么的时候，你不是要马上可以做，而是要强迫自己停顿下，分清现在这个任务的优先级，然后分配好开始时间，之后再开始做。
这点尤其重要！特别当看到一个简单或者routine的任务被email或者tower上分配来的时候，不要因为任务简单就马上跳上去干，不然这样极可能被简单重复劳动把自己的时间全部占光，最后没来得及干重要的事情，或者没有精力去思考更加长远更有影响力的事情。
所以，重申一次，去做impact和urgency最高的事情（这种事情一般来说不是很愉悦，甚至是比较棘手或者说是无从下手的事情），而把简单重复的活尽量后排（或者delegate出去）。这时你才会发现你的忙碌是有意义的，而不是伪工作（pseudo work）。
我常常看到一些毕业不久的人每天都很忙，但却没有抓住重点，只是为了忙碌而忙碌，或者用更加贴切的话描述是：“为了感动自己而忙碌”。很多时候这样的忙碌，最后都是一个屁。
之前在Facebook里，对于这样的同事有一个称号叫做“pseudo worker”，领导的职责是直接给他们透彻的反馈，让他们认清自己工作的impact最大化的地方到底在哪儿，同时告诫他们要忍住低impact的简单任务的诱惑。
对的，那些垃圾任务有着一种诱惑；诱惑着没有定力的人一直去做，一直去做，感觉自己特别有成就感，特别“忙碌和充实”。所以要小心！ 在国内创业路上也有很多这样的创始人（或者cofounders），他们自己的方向可能没怎么想清楚，或者路线制定有错，却一天到晚在朋友圈晒自己和同事们的加班，觉得这样的“忙碌”很充实。
其实这是一种很可怕而且对团队极不负责的做法。一般在工作时长惊人但又没有unicorn估值的公司里，我总觉得加班是一种羞耻，是团队领导不会分优先级或者战略不明确的表现；如果创始人还一直在那里秀加班来感动自己的话，我的建议是“尽早离开这样的公司”。同时我还敢打赌，90%这样的公司在加班（和日常工作时间里）的效率非常低。
5. 工作并不是你的全部
这点我不太想展开，就罗列几点：
a. 家庭很重要，美国人特别注重life-work balance，在工作台上经常是家庭合照；
b. 可能对于没满30岁的人没有感觉。但是当你迈过30岁这个坎，你会更加注重小孩和家庭的重要性。kids are your future，这是老美们经常说的话。所以那时你应该把重心转到家庭和下一代身上，让他们成为你生命的延续（虽然这很俗，但是是事实。我们都是DNA的奴隶。）
c. 你的身体才是最重要的。不停加班熬夜的时候想想自己的身体健康问题。工作上的很多事情（比如一些小的功能、小的bug）其实对于公司影响没你想象的那么大，而你的身体才是你自己最为宝贵的东西。所以多健身多锻炼作息正常别抽烟。你如果去硅谷逛一圈，最好再工作个一段时间，你会发现那边烟民很少（很多烟民是印度和中国人，还是一些发展中国家的人），而公司高管经常性的行为是早起健身和周末陪家人，然后还把各种晒幸福的照片往Facebook上发，给人一种齐乐洋洋的感觉。这是一种更加级别的炫耀，是超越了晒车晒房晒奢侈品的更加级别的一种炫耀。
6. 停下来思考职业规划
工作起来之后经常会觉得节奏很快，压力很大，使得整个大脑感觉像是被填满了，还有感觉在很长连续的时间里一直马不停蹄地去应付各种各样的事情。Zuck在一起Q&A的时候，被问及你是如何进行时间管理的；他回答比较长， 但是他核心说的一点就是 "Don't do thing reactively, but proactively.“ 不要机械式地做被分配的活，而是自己主动规划自己的任务和要后续锻炼和进步的方向。所以，Bill Gates 和 zuck 都会选一年中的一周停下来进行深度思考（gates的思考周），所以你的思考周在哪儿？即使你没他们那么牛，来几个思考日总归可以的吧？ :D （您又尴尬地笑）
7. 学会多站在巨人的肩膀上
越到后来，越感到旁边牛人的丰富，越能够了解到自己的能力和眼界的局限性，所以学会多站在巨人的肩膀上。
不过更加重要的（或者经常被学生忽略的）是在平时的工作中多承认和感谢别人的帮助（在Facebook里叫 acknowledge others' credits first）。比如在 launch product、或者在做 demo 或者 任何 presentation 之前，都应该感谢这次产品或者项目的帮助者；先把他们都感谢一番，最后再说自己或者团队做的事情。只有时时刻刻去acknowledge别人贡献的人，才能不断吸引好的团队凝聚在你的周围，也只有这样你才能变成一个合格的领导者（leader）。
