Advice from elsewhere

I like to scour the web for the advice that other professors are giving their students. The Yale political scientist/economist Chris Blattman has a nice set of ten tips that he recommends to undergraduates interested in public affairs. I would second his recommendation to get a good foundation in statistics and mathematical modeling. It really is essential for working in public affairs. I noticed that he is a little less supportive of language classes than I am both because immersion is the best way to learn a language (very true) and because there are lots of opportunties for learning languages outside of college (somewhat true - more true if you decide to live abroad).