Terel Leslie, a second year Business Management student specializing in Human Resources Management, explains how his high school teachers pushed him to focus on academics, forming his mindset of how high school shapes the rest of one’s life. This attitude led him to understand that one has to work because nothing will be handed to you freely. By dipping his feet into different opportunities and joining various student groups like the Toronto Metropolitan Consulting Association (TMCA), Enactus’ Project BITS and Human Resources Student Association (HRSA), he was able to develop numerous soft skills for his professional journey. His advice to students is to put yourself out there and take the opportunities that are available, but don’t burnout by taking too much on.