Ridiculous Failure for Shame Pt.1

“I am really not sure what they can offer me at this point so late into my education.”

First of all, it is not late in your education. I know many successful people, and pretty much none of us took the shortest or most direct route to get there. You need to understand that you have a lot of time ahead of you, take one day at a time, and make a little progress today.

Relax. You don’t have to get to NASA today or next week. You don’t have to get to MIT today or next week. Make progress for this semester. Worry about next year later.

Engineering and computer science are about taking very big and complex jobs and solving them one step at a time. No one designs a rocket in a day. They design one little part of it today.

You need to learn to focus. You also need to learn to find the easier and more straightforward way to solve problems. Similarly, it would help to find the easier and more straightforward way to write down your ideas. What do people reading this thread need to know? What issue do you want to solve now?

I see that you got a B in data structures. This is actually an important class. Programming is about learning programming languages in the same sense that being a lawyer is about speaking English and French. You need a language to be able to say what you want. However, what you say is more important than what language you use to say it. If you get the data structures and program structure right, it makes programming much easier.

Try to do well in this semester’s classes.