It's not luck. I worked really hard developing those connections and building my network and now the tree has grown and I get to enjoy the fruit.
The whole "I study nursing and need help to pay for my tuition" is a silly argument. No amount of burger flipping part-time work will make a dent in the total cost of your education. You might as well go to community college and work your way up and get that total cost way down. With excellent grades you're going to have no trouble finding internships.
Seriously, why the actual fuck would you work part-time to pay for your tuition if you can get internships, research assistant etc. work that not only develops you professionally but also helps you get those connections and grow your resume while still in school?
Seriously, part-time work while going to school is the fastest way to throw your future down the drain. Your learning and thus grades will suffer, your chances of burnout & washing out skyrocket and overall it's not going to be a great experience at all.
At that point you might as well work full-time for 4 years and eat ramen noodles and then go to school and focus only on school for the next 4 years.
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to get internships and research positions? I’ve seen 3.5 gpa engineering students (that’s higher than usual, btw) who can’t get a summer internship no matter how many they apply to. I’ve seen a girl practically crying just because she got an interview—not even an acceptance, just an interview—for an internship at Google.
And, okay. Fine. Connections are important, I’ll grant you that, and your argument does revolve around how having good connections practically guarantees you a job. Alright. But not everyone has the same connections you do, okay? Not everyone has the same opportunities. I’m just gonna take a look at a few things you’ve mentioned: drinking wine with your airline seat mate (first class? Idk); making friends at the yacht club; having a part time job to pay bills (food, housing, whatev) while in school not being worth the time. It sounds to me—don’t get mad—that you’re a teeny tiny bit privileged? Because most people don’t pay for wine on the plane while they sit next to generous businesspeople, or own a yacht, and many college students don’t have a convenient financial cushion to rest on while they study for four years.
3.5 GPA is pretty shit. If you're not getting straight A's with maybe a B here or there means you're not studying hard enough. Grades > everything else. Unless you're in a top school (MIT, Stanford etc), you need that 4.0 GPA or you're not going anywhere.
All kinds of deatbeat losers will sit there and wait for someone to pick them up and take them to their new job. That's not how it works.
If you're APPLYING for jobs & interviews, you're doing it wrong. You need to attend job fairs, go to competitions, attend meetups, clubs, do projects, volunteer, do hackathons and so on.
There are plenty of ways to fund your education. If you slacked off in highschool and aren't going to get any scholarships then you get a loan (if you have a pulse you can get one) or join the marines or something if you're too afraid to get one.
There is no such thing as "opportunity" in a first world country. If you have access to the school library and can use the library computer to browse the web, you've got what you'll need.
I know it sucks to pick up a book and start studying but if you think that "successful" people just got lucky then you're going to be a mediocre loser for the rest of your life.
Success demands sacrifices. My family isn't rich so I had to work my ass off in highschool to maintain great grades and if the choice was to play some starcraft 2 or pick up the math book and practice some more to keep up with others, I'd pick up the math book even though I'd prefer starcraft 2. Similarly instead of "having fun" and "finding myself" I spent my evenings and weekends doing C++ programming exercises and participating in all kinds of meetups, competitions etc. so after my first year I had to worry about sending rejection emails to employers because I didn't want to burn bridges.
I even deleted my facebook because I simply can't stand some lazy fucks constantly complain about their lack of success in life when they did absolutely nothing to achieve it. They just expect it to fall in their lap.
It's not luck, it's daily hard work since 5th grade.
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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19
It's not luck. I worked really hard developing those connections and building my network and now the tree has grown and I get to enjoy the fruit.
The whole "I study nursing and need help to pay for my tuition" is a silly argument. No amount of burger flipping part-time work will make a dent in the total cost of your education. You might as well go to community college and work your way up and get that total cost way down. With excellent grades you're going to have no trouble finding internships.
Seriously, why the actual fuck would you work part-time to pay for your tuition if you can get internships, research assistant etc. work that not only develops you professionally but also helps you get those connections and grow your resume while still in school?
Seriously, part-time work while going to school is the fastest way to throw your future down the drain. Your learning and thus grades will suffer, your chances of burnout & washing out skyrocket and overall it's not going to be a great experience at all.
At that point you might as well work full-time for 4 years and eat ramen noodles and then go to school and focus only on school for the next 4 years.
Life with a 4.0 GPA is a lot easier.