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Originally Posted by Shazam
Congratulations, you now have about 5% of the knowledge you need to survive the real world.
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Unhelpful AND unfunny?!? A unique skill like that must surely distinguish you in the employment market.
As for the OP - in my limited experience grades are secondary. It seems like they're really only used to help distinguish you from other candidates when you're just an anonymous applicant. As such, publications and even more importantly connections can get you farther and compensate for poor grades. I suppose it's all industry and position specific though.
One thing that can be helpful if you have reference letters, is to have a referee speak to why you might have had a poor semester. That can help contextualize your grades for the prospective employer, it gets the bad grades out on the table, and allows you the opportunity in an interview or whatever to show you're better than that.
Good luck!