Story time, for my younger anon brothers!
So you were a smartest kid in your high school class? So was I, but I'm nearing suicide! (Won't actually do it, don't worry)
I live in a small town in a very small country in Europe, and everybody said I was almost a prodigy. The system works like this -> 8 years of elementary, 4 years of high school -> 3 years for bachelor -> 2 years for masters, just so were on the same page. I played violin and accordion when I was 6, and I did pretty good until I left both for basketball, all my elementary friends played basketball so I wanted to, too! Sucked at it, but stuck around until 8th grade. During that time I took up programming, and I was the only one who knew what programming even was around me, so that made me feel like a genius as well. All throughout elementary and high school all the teachers would praise me as the smartest kid in the class, albeit a bit lazy.
I was actually just the oldest, and it mattered back then. I didn't realize that until much later.
At 19 (that was 2012), I wanted to do EE. I wasn't really good at math at this point. I got worse and worse ever sine you actually needed to study, not just listen in class. For me, that was first year of high school. My mark was 4 (5 being the highest) first year, then 3, then 3, and I gaduated with a 2 (barely passed it). Still had mostly 5s and some 4s, but for math it was a 2.
Anyways, wanted to go become an engineer. At this point my ego was still so inflated by my parents, family and professors, I felt I'm probably the smartest person in the world.
First day of EE, course named "Fundamentals of Computer science" or something like that, we were doing binary, operations, BCD code etc. It was really easy, of course, and I was still smug.
Second day, course named Fundamentals of Electrotechnics (it's basically half magnetism and electric fields, and half DC circuits). The professor wrote an integral and I asked a friend "what is that?".
So you were a smartest kid in your high school class? So was I, but I'm nearing suicide! (Won't actually do it, don't worry)
I live in a small town in a very small country in Europe, and everybody said I was almost a prodigy. The system works like this -> 8 years of elementary, 4 years of high school -> 3 years for bachelor -> 2 years for masters, just so were on the same page. I played violin and accordion when I was 6, and I did pretty good until I left both for basketball, all my elementary friends played basketball so I wanted to, too! Sucked at it, but stuck around until 8th grade. During that time I took up programming, and I was the only one who knew what programming even was around me, so that made me feel like a genius as well. All throughout elementary and high school all the teachers would praise me as the smartest kid in the class, albeit a bit lazy.
I was actually just the oldest, and it mattered back then. I didn't realize that until much later.
At 19 (that was 2012), I wanted to do EE. I wasn't really good at math at this point. I got worse and worse ever sine you actually needed to study, not just listen in class. For me, that was first year of high school. My mark was 4 (5 being the highest) first year, then 3, then 3, and I gaduated with a 2 (barely passed it). Still had mostly 5s and some 4s, but for math it was a 2.
Anyways, wanted to go become an engineer. At this point my ego was still so inflated by my parents, family and professors, I felt I'm probably the smartest person in the world.
First day of EE, course named "Fundamentals of Computer science" or something like that, we were doing binary, operations, BCD code etc. It was really easy, of course, and I was still smug.
Second day, course named Fundamentals of Electrotechnics (it's basically half magnetism and electric fields, and half DC circuits). The professor wrote an integral and I asked a friend "what is that?".
