A useful piece of advice for yr 1 CIS
A piece of advice I've heard as a yr 1 CIS (CS coded however)student when I was getting a footing in this field is to get involved on campus. Now this heavily depends on the campus and what it offers, but I was lucky that our faculty offers a ton of free workshops in varying fields, from CP, CTF, GameDev, and Full stack dev, the last one I enlisted in and will prolly help me with my 1st CV project. If your faculty offers such workshops, enlist now to lessen the burden, if not, self study to compensate.