Also, you should keep yourself updated with various design-blogs and magazines. Keep yourself updated on the trends, while still defining your own style. At this stage you should probably focus on what mr. elite said, make yourself comfortable with the programs you are going to use (depends on what you aim to do). It's like playing guitar, you have to learn the basic before you start writing your own song. Although if you become really REALLY good at playing guitar, you will probably be a guitar-mastrubator who will play the longest solos and the most advanced songs, and forgetting about the songs qualities in themselves. Master your tools, but don't let what you can do overshadow what you should do. If that made any sense
And are you studying design in a school or by own initiative?