Bad Grades

Years ago, when I was in what was supposed to be my final year of University, I decided to drop out of engineering. The people were great, my marks were fine. I just didn’t have passion for it and the idea of spending the rest of my life doing something I didn’t care about was enough for me to throw in the towel.Lucky for me there was another option. I had taken an Intro to Computer Science course a couple semesters prior, one where we were taught about object oriented programming in C++. I wasn’t a good student but it sparked something in me. That semester I made my first ever game; a simple 4 letter word ladder in command line. It was fun enough to play but captivating to make. So in my final year of my bachelor’s degree, on the drop day of the semester, at 2 in the afternoon, I walked up to the academic advisor and asked for her help. She pulled out her course catalog and swapped all my classes so I could pursue a degree in Computer Science instead. If I did things exactly right,…