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Ask HN: Good engineer, bad grades in undergrad. How do I get back into academia?

Dear HN,I just turned 24 and am having a quarter-life crisis.I graduated over 3 years ago with very average grades from a decent university by doing badly even in the subjects that I knew I was great at because:1. I wasn't good at writing timed exams (I just cannot think under massive stress) 2. On-and-off phases of depressionFortunately I am a very good engineer and I did a bunch of open...

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