One of the most important lessons I've learned is that some people will do anything to see you fail, especially if you are rising above them. With this in mind, you must do everything in your power to ignore them and realize your full potential. I'm sure you already learned this the hard way. But now what?
I'm not really sure what your problem here is. Maybe it would help us to give you advice if you explained what was holding you back when you kept retaking your sophomore year. From my understanding, you were trying to "dumb yourself down," but were you trying to do worse than your peers as well?
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