[romanovcode]

I nearly dropped out, but got very, very lucky.

Last semester some organization introduces nationwide competition for all colleges on various professions (programming included) with sponsors like Apple, Microsoft, Cisco etc.

So I won competition in the college itself since they only can send one applicant.

I won national-wide competition as well thus showing that my college is the best in the field.

After that my grades got cooked and I graduated with accomplishment diploma and pretty good grades.