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Ask HN: Do your grades really matter?

A little background.

I'm now (going to be) a second year physics student at uWaterloo, and due to the fact that I was ill, I didn't do too well during my second semester, and a couple of courses in my first semester. I still managed to pull off 80/90+ in all my core courses, and I'm now a bit worried as to whether I'll get a decent co-op job.

I have a pretty reasonable resume, a couple of github projects in C++ and python, a research internship in algorithms (with a paper on the way).

So, what I want to know from the HN community is, would you hire me for a good co-op position (whether in software or otherwise), or am I doomed to a job where I need to file papers all day?

9 points chunky1994 13 years ago 14 comments

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