Taking a gap year was genuinely the best decision of my life so far.

I’m graduating in may this year with a bachelors in mechanical engineering. When I joined college I wasn’t ready I was a loser. Failed all my classes freshman fall.

Put on academic probation, freshman spring I passed all of them but bad grades. So still probation.

Sophomore fall I did a little better but since my gpa was already so low I was still in probation lol. So 1 1/2 years in probation.

Sophomore spring, grinded like 12 hour days every day for the semester. It was the most mentally challenging thing I ever did. I had bad fundamentals and was desperate to stay in school. That was my first semester with actual A’s and B’s.

Mind you sophomore spring is when you reach the hard classes and my fundamentals were already bad.

Took a gap year , I was starting to have panic attacks even tho I did good and got out of probation (barely) so I took a gap year.

Got an operator job at a CNC shop like 18hr. With overtime made 45k. I was able to pay off like 80% of my current debt (first 2 years) and it was a huge mental reset. I actually starting liking my life again.

Junior year and senior year I’ve been a honor roll student with all these hard classes and some retakes as well. Just got an offer for mechanical engineer starting salary 80k.

**Fuck ya man** . Ended with 2.9 gpa all said and done. And only have about 40k in debt. Which I plan to kill aggressively in 1.5-2 years.

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So my wife’s going to a gala tonight — as her client’s “date.”

I’m 44 and my wife is 44. She works on an art advisory committee, so attending galas, events, and client meetings is part of her job. She often meets clients for coffee, lunch, or dinner, and I don’t always know the details and that’s completely normal because it’s part of her work. She’s always professional, transparent about her friendships, and I trust her judgment completely. Recently, she mentioned she’s going to a gala with a friend, S. He’s a wealthy client she met about a year ago, and they became friends professionally. She introduced me to him once, and he seems like a genuinely good person. He invited her as his “date” to this gala, and my wife said it’s fine. I did ask her though, if she’s actually going as a “date,” and she just laughed and said, “Date doesn’t always mean romantic.” She said it’s important for her she could get networking and meet new people. Then she smiled and said, “If I get into this gala next time, I won’t need to take that man with me, I’ll take you...

Update- My fiance’s “vows disaster” just hit rehearsal day & it got worse

For context- my fiance accidentally sent our officiant his draft vows, the one full of placeholders like “insert emotional stuff here” and “make her cry but not ugly cry”? Yeahhh. He promised he fixed them. But he did not. At the rehearsal, the officiant asked if he wanted to do a practice run. My man confidently steps up, opens his phone & starts reading the exact same draft. He gets halfway through “insert heartfelt memory here” before realizing, mid-sentence - what’s happening. The entire wedding party is trying not to lose it. Our officiant just sighed and said, “Well, at least you’re honest.” He is now rewriting his vows under supervision like it’s a school detention. The bridesmaids made him a folder titled “FINAL FINAL vows - DO NOT SCREW UP.docx.” If the ceremony goes anything like this rehearsal, I might livestream it for educational purposes. (And yes, I posted the original chaos on r/WeddingJokes — I feel like I owe them an update at this point)

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What is the most romantic thing a guy has done for you?

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