Brother, I can't possibly describe how much this means to me ..this is exactly the situation I'm at..!

Till before my final semester, I had the shittiest CGPA and nobody even knew I lived. I was feeling so depressed and sick of myself. My stupid confidence took me to an overly qualified professor to do a master's project with her. She looked at my grades and said I have "okay" grades(just enough to not be kicked out) and I can't visit her for an entire year cause, they have too many good applicants.

That particular last semester when she told me this, I topped every fucking math course I took. So every single topper you find in my institute who has a stellar CGPA and is going to get selected to some insanely good uni lost to me at least once in their life. She couldn't believe that I topped every single class that semester. I was dumb as hell, but buddy I worked like hell every day and got a grade that everyone dreamt of getting.

That was a start, a fucking start to a new life. In the following year for my master's project, I went to her institute only for two weeks twice. I could only go that many thanks to my stupid grades. But guess what, every time I went there I published a paper. I went there twice and published two fucking research papers, after being told by every prof in my department and every single senior that I can't do shit in research with my GPA.

Now I have far more research output than any other students she took including the good ones with a stipend for an entire year. Now she is begging me to apply to grad school in the US and Europe. Talk about turning things around..!

Of course, I make a stupid fool of myself and I laugh at myself a lot and I make a ton of self-deprecating jokes. But deep down I know I'm exactly what I ever dreamed of being and even if all the Uni's I'm applying to reject me, it doesn't matter. I'm at a point in my life where I would confidently say, Whoever gets to work with me in the future or becomes my life partner is lucky as hell to do so because I'm that fucking amazing...Words can't possibly describe how much I changed.