I think it is a mercy that one tends to forget how lazy and irresponsible they were in their youth. That is certainly true for me. I took and odd trajectory to get to my Masters of Science degree. It started with a really bad undergraduate degree in Marketing–I do not have the transcript I ordered yet, but I am cringing just thinking about it. That was followed by a thoroughly mediocre (3.00 GPA from a pretty good tech school–the first transcript to arrive), but that should have been profoundly better had I been paying attention. I started out well, but then fell off the wagon for whatever reason. That I got was accepted into graduate school for a PhD and an MS, both in Engineering is almost miraculous. Well the PhD was less miraculous because by the time I did my MS, the blood had started flowing back to my brain and I did a good job. That will be a story for when my other transcripts arrive.