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  1. Thanks for the sound advice! At my university switching to part time status was not possible. The thing is that I've been studying algorithms and taking part in computing competitions at a national level years before I joined college. Basically, I was eager to use my knowledge and solve real life problems as well as prove to myself that I can thrive in a different type of environment. At the time that I made my choice to focus on my job, it genuinely seemed that I had more to learn from it, but I can say from my personal experience that, as you said, you can't completely substitute your education with work. Right now, if I were to get accepted into a full time master's programme I'd most definitely focus exclusively on it. Considering my past experience, do you think that this is worth briefly mentioning in my essay? I don't want to let the impression that I plan on continuing my work through my master's degree. Yes I mean that my grades dropped to C's, pretty much. I've been thinking about applying to a university in the Netherlands or Sweden as I am an EU citizen and the tuition fees are really low in those countries.
  2. I'm about to finish college (Bachelor's in Computer Science) and I've been thinking about applying for a master's degree. I got really good grades in my first year of college, I was in the top 5% students, but during my second and third year I worked full time as a software developer so my grades dropped quite a bit (receiving mostly unremarkable and even some poor grades in my second year). That is in great part due to my attendance, since for most of the subjects that I've had, your activity throughout the year influenced the final grade. I've been thinking that I can offer an explanation regarding this in my motivation letter, but I'm not sure just how in depth should this explanation be. Should I just mention this situation it and leave it at that or should I also give out the reasons I thought focusing on my job, rather than my college classes, was worthwhile? I know that I've screwed up my chances for getting a master's degree at a really good university, but just how bad will this look, after all, I did work into a field closely related to my my field of study, so it can't be all bad, right?
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