I'm sorry, OP, but what do you want? You say you're at a crappy school, but is that really your problem? It might help to think about what you *have* done in your career so far (projects, fascinating articles, etc.) and build on that.

I encourage CS students to take part in open source software projects. It can be somewhat intimidating to get immersed in a codebase that's been around for some time, but you should look at commit logs. The dates between choosing to make a feature and finally implmenting it can be a month or more apart. My point is that you can take your time and focus on the important things like communicating with people and designing programs.

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I just want to add under the heading of "General Computer Scientist Shit"
- Algorithm design
- running time analysis and (disk-,memory-)space analysis
- how to use a debugger

There's more, but you should be able to calculate the big-O of an algorithm without excessive difficulty.