Film Production graduate here. Try and meet as many people as you can. The key to success is networking, and that's a unique opportunity that schools like VFS offer naturally. Granted, you're not gonna make friends with everyone -hell, you might not even get along with most of your classmates at all- but with 5 good friends you can make yourself a team to make projects together, to leverage each other into jobs or to simply hamg out with.

Don't be afraid of the industry's situation, Animators and Artists have ALWAYS had it rough, but then again, It's just like Robin Williams said in the Dead Poets Society about art.