If I have to pick a personal failure in life (thankfully there haven’t been many), I always pick my performance as first year student at Georgia Tech (fall 1995 to fall 1996). It was a fast and almost complete self destruction of what had been the crowning achievement of my young life. From the day I migrated to US (Atlanta) near the end of my 9th grade to my high school graduation, I had a singular purpose—study hard to get into top engineering school (it was always GA Tech for me) and take care of own finances to help the family. I was good at both of these goals. I was admitted to GA-Tech by middle of my senior year with full tuition scholarship and I had enough money from employments throughout high school years to buy my own car
