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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Honestly, the biggest challenge for me was self-motivation while severely depressed. I could show up to class, but that pretty much used up all the juice. Sometimes I wouldn't even be able to do that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

When you finish your academically challenge degree with honors and every job is basically doing xlookup() and sumifs() every day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Electrical engineering is 90% math 10% electricity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

When you take a non-academically challenging degree and get told "lol just Google it" by a professor when you ask how to do a specific part of an assignment correctly after being told "nah you did it wrong"

(Totally didn't happen to me and why I dropped out I swear)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

real. rat-salute-2

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Username checks out?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

you bet it does

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I’m academically challenged alright. Learning disability and everything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So ashamed of how shit I was at organic chemistry

My brain just could not complete those fucking benzene rings why am I so INCOMPETENT WHY

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

stay strong bro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully I crawled through with a passing grade, it's all behind me

But the benzene rings, they still haunt my nightmares

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

congrats on passing! I'm with you there, aromatics are spooky af.