When I was in college I never really perused the site much. After I graduated started following this site a lot and although I have yet to post any of my work, which I will in time, I found the critiques from other designers to help me realize what skills I need to have to get where I want to be. Opportunities came along that allowed me to build my skills and I would say just from reading the advice of the people on the site, my creativity and work is leaps and bounds better than where I was at when I graduated, as it should be. It is great that students have an outlet outside of school to have their work critiqued by professionals, of all levels, from an outside point of view, something I wish I had done when I was in school.