What side project/research should be chosen to increase my Marketability

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I am a Junior CS Major at a Javaschool and I find myself having an easy time and thought there may be some good project or a language to learn or research in this newfound free time. What would you recommend so as to increase my ability to find a good job(somewhere that allows for continuous learning and treats its programmers well)after college?

My thoughts were learning Scheme, making a working Zelda-like game(the original), find some open source project to help with.

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