You can’t control the economy you graduate into. You can control which skills you walk in with.

Which year you walk into work is luck, and so is whether your field happens to be hiring that month. What travels with you regardless is what you can do and what somebody can see you have done. A rough year is hard on everybody, though not equally, and the difference often comes down to one concrete skill with some proof attached.

Choose one skill this term that somebody would pay for and get visibly better at it: a tool, a certificate, a language, a finished piece of work. Keep a folder of the things you complete. That folder is the part of this you own.