CIA Student--need help!!

I am starting at the CIA in April in The Culinary Arts. I want to be as sucessful as I can. I would appreciate any tips on skills, attitude, anything to help me become a great chef. Thank you

[Pete]

Here are 2 bits of good advice:
1. Going to such a large school as CIA it is easy to hide in the crowd and just "get by". You are spending a lot of money so make the most of your education. Be aggressive.

2. When you graduate, remember that you are not a chef! Read the posts on this bulletin board and you will find that most chefs don't have any patience for "hot shot" culinary grads you think they know more than their chefs. It takes years to become a chef. Use these years wisely and learn all you can from the people you work with and under.

[m brown]

Right on Pete!

Anne, sign up for food shows, help chefs with their pet projects. Pick the brains of chefs and read, read, read!
Two of my teachers are now there and have more talent and info then can be bound by books, Chefs Coppage and Higgins. Chef Budd is a genius too.
Don't assume you know anything. Be a Sponge.
Enjoy!!!!!

The most important thing you can do at the CIA is to completely imerse yourself in the program. You will be surronded by an enormuse amount of information and talented instructors. Don't get caught up in the party scene it will put you in with a most unmotivated crowd. Feel the excitement, learn all that you possibly can and bring all that you experiance out in to the industry with you.