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Originally Posted by 911Rob

I agree Matt, but excuses are a dime a dozen buddy.
I had a wife and one kid at the time

It wasn't about the grades; it was about "positioning" with the instructors. I simply did not accept their methods of stereo typing students with grades. One instructor defined me as..."Oh yeah, McKibbon, you give him a 99% grade and he's still not happy" By my 2nd year my name was branded as top student.

One of my secrets was an after hours teaching class I hosted for my fellow classmates. If you want to learn something really well, teach it.

Lots of stories and life lessons learned.
30 years later, not much has changed

No excuses here, I worked my ass off. Quite frankly, a 4.0 was not my top priority. In engineering you either get the right answer or the wrong answer. Not much "positioning" you can really do. In hindsight I don't regret a thing, in my current job and the others I was offered there wasn't a single conversation in regards to my GPA. While others didn't work so they could focus on that 4.0, I had an internship that has been invaluable to my career. Most of the people that work for me probably had better grades in school than I did.

However, your approach is part of the reason I had an A in all of my business classes. Plus they were easy.