I would say that the more you can concentrate on academics the better
because I saw a lot of guys just goofing off and carrying on
hat first job-. I asked my boss who hired me at the dental school,
I asked him after I'd known him for a couple years, I said, "How many people applied for my job?"
and he said actually quite a few,
and he said, "Actually some people's credentials were a little bit better than yours."
They had a little more experience in the field and so forth. He said, "But the thing that got me about you was your good grades
and that's why I hired you, because you had good grades."
Good grades aren't everything but they get you that first job,
and then of course how you do in that first job depends on where you go from there,
but good grades are just really important.