I'd suggest that this student find a way to apply what s/he's learned: write a mobile app, a game, a web app, or something like that. If s/he prefers electronics because of the past robotics work, invest in a hobbyist FPGA development board ($119 or so from Digilent), and they can create their own hardware devices.

Education is a very important thing but ultimately it has to be applied in order to be of use. A lot of people who did well within the structured confines of a classroom environment fall down when they reach the real world.