"To those of you who are graduating this afternoon with high honors, awards and distinctions, I say, 'Well done.' And as I like to tell the C students: You too, can be president."
I had a 2.0 GPA in college. Absolute lowest that I could have gotten and still graduate. I finished dead last in my class.
However, almost half the kids that I started college with didn't graduate from my school, so I finished ahead of all of them. After I got my first job, no one ever asked about my GPA until I applied to grad school, and even then, my professional experience made a much bigger difference.
I fucked around in college, and wasted a lot of time, but I learned a lot (even if my grades didn't reflect it), and while I didn't take the path to climb the same corporate ladder that my friends did, I've got a family, a house, a good job, I'm back in school, and this time, my GPA is 3.5.
If you've failed at things before, don't let those failures define who you are. Decide what it is that you want to do, and just get out there and do it.
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nsalapatas on March 5th, 2018 at 18:11 UTC »
When did they start adding decimals to license plates?
TooShiftyForYou on March 5th, 2018 at 18:25 UTC »
"To those of you who are graduating this afternoon with high honors, awards and distinctions, I say, 'Well done.' And as I like to tell the C students: You too, can be president."
George W. BushDoIt2It on March 5th, 2018 at 19:07 UTC »
I had a 2.0 GPA in college. Absolute lowest that I could have gotten and still graduate. I finished dead last in my class.
However, almost half the kids that I started college with didn't graduate from my school, so I finished ahead of all of them. After I got my first job, no one ever asked about my GPA until I applied to grad school, and even then, my professional experience made a much bigger difference.
I fucked around in college, and wasted a lot of time, but I learned a lot (even if my grades didn't reflect it), and while I didn't take the path to climb the same corporate ladder that my friends did, I've got a family, a house, a good job, I'm back in school, and this time, my GPA is 3.5.
If you've failed at things before, don't let those failures define who you are. Decide what it is that you want to do, and just get out there and do it.