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[onokentauros]

Stay humble.My pride's fractured. Midterms have come, gone and left me with honors in one class but barely passing grades in the two others, an imbalance that makes me question my ability to do well in graduate school. There's a long list of things I didn't do this block that I should have - review my notes more often, spend less time reading and

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[dejalemming]

It's regaining that self-esteem that's the hard part. It's reminding yourself that yes, you do belong there, they wouldn't have let you in if you didn't, and that you don't need to prove piddly squat to your peers.

I'm in pretty much the same place right now, and while my issue is less a matter of my peers hating me as it is a feeling of total isolation from them, I really get what you're saying, and I'm with you 100% on all of it.

So on days when you feel like hanging it all up and walking away, I'm right there with you (in spirit) in the same boat.

[onokentauros]

I read your post on this - on the days when life just seems to come at you sideways and you too question your position in your field.

Chin up. To both of us.

[dejalemming]

Yeah. As I sit here and stare at the first (and only) page of a 5-6 page paper due tomorrow that just isn't coming together, life coming at me sideways is an understatement right now.

I question my position in everything, and I'm really struggling at the moment. It'll get better, but I don't know how or when.

Chin up.

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Overcoming an inflated sense of self is as much the key to real achievement as overcoming a crippling insecurity, because they are both manifestations of the same thing. You'll do it.

[onokentauros]

Thanks.
Also, I wanted to tell you - think of yourself as Don Vito Corleone, and your furniture movers as hired muscle.

It's a powerful feeling.

[onokentauros]

P.S.: I can't believe I wrote this comment after telling myself (and everyone else) about staying humble.

My hypocrisy gets the best of me.