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I got my bachelor's 4.5 years after leaving high school. The extra semester is because my advisor screwed up my schedule my sophomore year because it turned out I COULDN'T take certain classes at the same time, so the prerequisites forced me into taking an additional term.

My college career got screwed up in other ways, too. I could have minored in Japanese, except the ONLY professor for the history and culture class went on sabbatical my senior year, so I ended up being ONE CLASS SHORT. :/ And I was GOING to do an honors thesis, had a project all lined up and everything, but then my honors advisor dropped the ball and never followed up on getting the project approved -- of course, in the end that didn't matter anyway because my GPA was 0.02 points short of being eligible for graduating with honors. x.x

I also had a ton of transfer credits coming in from high school because of AP exams, but some of them turned out to have been a waste of money -- some of them didn't count towards my degree program because my high school skimped out and didn't teach the calculus version of AP Physics.

EDIT: ... I can't believe that my 20-year high school reunion is coming up next year.