Belated happy birthday, Foxy.

thanks for making me feeling better guys. I talked with my councillor and EET head of engineering and they both said that so long as GPA isnt too severely low overall. My ability to get a career won't be at stake (Something like below 2.5)

However my ability to pursue higher levels of post secondary engineering will.

You know given my knowledge in medicine I think I'll go back into it after I get my life sorted out first. My mom will be a thing of the past. I think part of the problem is I make out issues and further bitch about it, further aggrivating the situation.

I'm now realizing one of my biggest issues is I think I'm a full out genius when the cold truth is I'm nothing but an individual of ordinary aptitude.

Inotherwords I think I know when I don't and you find this a reality when analysing yourself on a dunning kruger scaler.

Everyone want to be sheldon cooper. I guess I'm not that that smart. Smart but not a genius.

Ego for the most part is something akin driven in my dad's side of the family.

I swear whenever I get a bad grade I cringe at the site of it.

The other reason may be pyschological since childhood.

Whenever I got a C or worse I got severely scolded and spanked with a leather belt in gradeschool by my mother. I think this is where I first had a huge dislike for her.

A lot of my attitude towards her is deeply ingrained in my subconscious from those beatings

Happy Birthday.

I knew a male to female person who was a scientist and a really good doctoral type. He started out doing Post-Doc work with my place and when the appointment ended was in the middle of the transition. We rented post-doc brains not bodies. So as long as the research came out good, the rest was left alone. Although it was a learning experience and it was chaos. Once the chaos of the transition settled down, she did get back to science and no one cared. I doubt that the casual person knew once the transition was over.

So work hard, get good grades and get settled as what you want to be. You aren't the first person to do this. A career will happen if you do good work.

Gee, where have we all heard that before?

foxytaur (imported) wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2013 7:52 pm thanks for making me feeling better guys. I talked with my councillor and EET head of engineering and they both said that so long as GPA isnt too severely low overall. My ability to get a career won't be at stake (Something like below 2.5)

However my ability to pursue higher levels of post secondary engineering will.

You know given my knowledge in medicine I think I'll go back into it after I get my life sorted out first. My mom will be a thing of the past. I think part of the problem is I make out issues and further bitch about it, further aggrivating the situation.

I'm now realizing one of my biggest issues is I think I'm a full out genius when the cold truth is I'm nothing but an individual of ordinary aptitude.

Inotherwords I think I know when I don't and you find this a reality when analysing yourself on a dunning kruger scaler.

Everyone want to be sheldon cooper. I guess I'm not that that smart. Smart but not a genius.

Ego for the most part is something akin driven in my dad's side of the family.

I swear whenever I get a bad grade I cringe at the site of it.

The other reason may be pyschological since childhood.

Whenever I got a C or worse I got severely scolded and spanked with a leather belt in gradeschool by my mother. I think this is where I first had a huge dislike for her.

A lot of my attitude towards her is deeply ingrained in my subconscious from those beatings

Getting mediocre grades doesn't mean a darned thing about your intelligence, if you ask me. Don't let it tell you such. There are a lot of very smart people that almost fail out of school because they have a hard time keeping up with the busy-work (myself included, unfortunately,) and a lot of very smart people who know the material just fine and yet can never get the answers on tests when crunch time comes due to various anxieties and issues. My point is, don't take it too personally. The world doesn't give a s*** about how smart you are once you're out in the working world anyway, as long as you get the job done well. I found that out all too quickly myself. I mean, I got fourth place in the entire state of Florida in their annual statewide high school math competition, and yet I nearly failed out of school twice, was almost fired from three separate jobs due to underachievement, and ended up working in a job that requires basically no education whatsoever aside from basic 4th-grade math. So yeah. Don't stress out over it too much. The working world seriously is a completely different universe, and intelligence doesn't mean a damned thing there. It's all about people-skills, and how you present yourself, and how well you get the job done. If you can do those three things, you'll go far. Once you have the entry-level job, that's pretty much the last time that you'll seriously have to worry about grades. After that, employers generally quit caring about grades and academic achievement, and it becomes all about your past work experience in the field, and good presentation of your skills, and good connections/references.