So we have a friend who just happens to be a really smart, hardworking junior. I was sitting with him one day talking about the courses i want to take next semester.
"I don't know if i want to take CS 225 (Data Structures) and STAT 400 in the same semester. They both seem like really hard classes, especially CS 225. I don't know if i want to risk it", I said.
He scoffed, and gave me a dirty look.
"Are you really scared of THAT?", he glared at me. "Do you have any idea what i took in my sophomore year? I had two 300-level ECE courses, CS 225 and STAT 400 all in the same semester, and you're cribbing about taking CS 225 and STAT 400 together? Learn to work hard, cause you clearly don't know what that is now. I'd lose all respect for you if you chicken out of those two courses. Just do it", he advised with all the wisdom the last 3 years had given him.
At that moment i felt like an idiot. An idiot for feeling scared, an idiot for thinking i couldn't manage it, an idiot for voicing my fears. I vowed to take them together, regardless of how fucked i'd eventually get.
"I don't know if i want to take CS 225 (Data Structures) and STAT 400 in the same semester. They both seem like really hard classes, especially CS 225. I don't know if i want to risk it", I said.
He scoffed, and gave me a dirty look.
"Are you really scared of THAT?", he glared at me. "Do you have any idea what i took in my sophomore year? I had two 300-level ECE courses, CS 225 and STAT 400 all in the same semester, and you're cribbing about taking CS 225 and STAT 400 together? Learn to work hard, cause you clearly don't know what that is now. I'd lose all respect for you if you chicken out of those two courses. Just do it", he advised with all the wisdom the last 3 years had given him.
At that moment i felt like an idiot. An idiot for feeling scared, an idiot for thinking i couldn't manage it, an idiot for voicing my fears. I vowed to take them together, regardless of how fucked i'd eventually get.
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