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How do you cope with having gone to a lower status university than you could've handled and doing a subject you didn't like and not being able to change due to being in the UK and being aged 24 knowing you have never done anything intellectual in your life? And having practically given up on your degree with over a year to go, handing in the absolute minimum to get a 2.1 (acceptable in the UK)?
Feels awful man. When I go through stuff in my own time, whether it's academic or not, I feel awful. Learning PHP is trivial. Learning maths for physical sciences (my uni missed out tonnes of stuff) is trivial. The exercises in SICP are trivial. I don't mean that I am finding everything easy- I mean that if I do this stuff it is not an achievement in any way like a MMath from Cambridge or a research paper in a scientific journal or creating a programming language or framework would be.
I'm implementing stuff in Lisp from SICP when Turing was literally inventing the theory behind computer science. Learning PHP is easy but I haven't done anything near as smart as the guy who created PHP (and the guy who created JavaScript did it in about a week!).
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>>8483258
There's nothing to stop you applying for Part III at Cambridge. The same goes for creating a programming language.
If you're really so much better than your university then head over to the library and start applying yourself.
Sage for shitting up my board.
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>>8483258
>studying CS
>complaining it is trivial
Lol wtf faggot. You asked for it.
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Fuck university if it's not helping you. Go to the library, get a book and start going. Prove to everyone how good you are. You can either continue to feel depressed about a lack of accomplishment.
Take this advice from Donald Trump. Think big. Some people are afraid of success and don't take risks or dedicate their time on things that they're afraid of failing at.
If you're at rock bottom then make something. Stop relying on others and your school and do something. Start learning now. Make a language, whatever you want. Prove to the to universities that you're qualified. Just stop sitting on your ass if you have so much potential and are complaining about not using it.
Trust me friend. Think big and don't be afraid of winning. If school is useless to you, then drop it and take it later if you have to. If you do this like make basic programs, play around with code or flip burgers, no one will hold that against you. If you do nothing then people will certainly use that against you. Be a self-made man if that's what you need to be. If you have skills and potential to create, then either create with them or spend the rest of your life on /r9k/ and /sci/ talking about them.
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>Caring about status
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