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Holy cow, that's a lot of dedication and endurance! What kept you going despite the unusually high amount of failures?

• Tade0 4y ago
  It was actually youth, arrogance and stupidity. The same things also kept me going. After my junior year I found a job through a school friend whom I helped preparing for his exams and from that point on I started weighing whether on a given day I should go to lectures or make money. My family was in a precarious situation financially and I only needed two full days to finance repeating a course, so the choice was obvious at the time. I almost dropped out after two semesters because I failed too many courses (four - two was the limit after the first year), but I talked the dean out of deciding to kick me out - we had that option back in the day. I spent the remainder of my time on what you could consider a Performance Improvement Plan - took 14 courses for the third semester, failed three, but thanks to that I was just three short starting the fourth, which was acceptable. Four years of winging it like that and after a total of five years(instead of the planned four) I had my Bachelor of Engineering degree. In hindsight I should have not went to do a Master's Degree because I never finished my thesis due to not being satisfied with the scope(or the lack of it).