After 7 years I am finally getting my bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at 25. I feel like a failure.

I graduated at 34. It's a total non-issue.

Seriously. OP's pity-party aside, it's honestly annoying how often people post "ughhh i'm in my mid-20s and barely getting my degree... i'm such a loser and wasted my entire life etc.". Like, you're not even in your late twenties, dude. This talk is akin to a teenager thinking high school is the most important time in your life.

According to OP, getting your bachelor's at 25 is failure-tier. Mine was completed at 30 years old (chemical engineering), and I felt like far from a failure. If anything, the extra maturity during my undergrad landed me 3 separate undergrad internships because I had a work history and knew how to talk to employers confidently. There's a dude at our school who got his degree at 40 years old.

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