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i was nowhere near the smartest kid in my school or my uni class but Im more successful than them by miles. Don't let it discourage you.

It's not always about the "smarts". You'll graduate. I crawled across the graduation stage. I had a low GPA. I barely qualified with my in-major GPA. Hell, not long after that I went to federal prison. I'm still here and I'm still an engineer. No one has ever even asked to see my transcript.

You will graduate. Just focus on what you need to do and once it's all over you will be just like the rest of us.

> I'm continually coming to terms with the fact that I'm not nearly as smart as some of the kids I'm in classes with.

Good social skills, especially being able to build and maintain a healthy professional network, will advance one’s career much more than purely being smart. Ideally, a given person will have both, but the social skills seem to reap much larger dividends than pure intelligence in my experience.