The College and University Experience:?
It doesn't matter. You don't need to tell anyone about your mental illness or explain anything. Work on more real world projects. Build useful things. Meet more successful people. Help them out however you can and tell them what you want to do. I had a crappy GPA that I was trying to bring up from a 2.0 average that I got due to mental illness similar to your situation. While working part-time as a gymnastics coach one of the parents of a child asked me if I was interested in an internship to learn programming with a friend of hers. All I knew was how to make basic programs on my TI-83+ calculator. I learned to code in six months and got hired on when the person I was interning with got hired as a manager at a local software company. In another six months I got two raises and was promoted from a part-time intern to a full-time software developer. And I hadn't even graduated yet. And I was getting a finance degree, not a computer science degree. None of it mattered. I knew someone who knew someone and I proved myself capable and trustworthy. You can do the same. I think what was most important was my intention that I was going to be successful no matter what. Other people picked up on that and offered me opportunities.