The degrees served mostly as an outline of the things I needed to learn and the path I needed to follow. Most of the learning however was the outcome of my own

The degrees served mostly as an outline of the things I needed to learn and the path I needed to follow. Most of the learning however was the outcome of my own curiosity and tenacity / grit. I entered the university not knowing how to program/code. By the second semester I had built a small game for a project on top of some 2D graphics rendering engine, and then I wanted to add UI on top. Since I wanted it to not get stuck while waiting for user inputs, I used multithreading to decouple everything. While that isn’t particularly interesting, it’s an example of me going far beyond what was asked only because an idea got stuck in my head. My studies are full of such examples and projects. I didn’t have the highest grades because I was too busy learning other stuff, working on my own projects and so on.