> those mistakes are basically ensuring that I can never get into a top-tier master's program
Take courses at a local community college or state university to bring up your GPA and demonstrate that you now do take things seriously. It works.
Take courses at a local community college or state university to bring up your GPA and demonstrate that you now do take things seriously. It works.
I have exceptional difficulty dedicating a significant amount of my time to highschool level work (My experience is that the community college classes are often Busy/foolish work - I could make an entire new post on the CC prof that scored me negatively for correcting the java code on the questions from his test generator.)