The sooner you make the commitment to go to graduate school, the better able you will be to plan your courses and your time appropriately. All too often students get to their senior year of college and decide they'd like a master's degree. At that point, they may not have taken required courses needed for entry. Ideally, you want to begin looking at graduate school requirements in your sophomore year. Begin a love affair with computers.
Computer literacy is integral to the grad school process.
Many schools now have traded in the grad school bulletin for a home page on the Web. Most provide the admissions application on-line. The GRE, which is required for admission into most programs, can be taken on the computer. In fact, you won't be able to take one on paper soon. Simply put, you'll need to be able to work with computers.