When college kids "Feel like a Fraud"

romanigypsyeyes
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 19:34:14 +0000

Eh. Honestly, I did better in college than high school. Higher GPA, higher honors, etc. I still felt like I shouldn’t be there.

I attended a pretty good high school and was sufficiently challenged. That has nothing to do with my impostor syndrome.

It was the fact that most of the people I knew in college had parents who had gone to college. They were people who had never been on welfare. They didn’t have to pay for their own college. And so on. I felt like I was only pretending to be on the same level as them. It’s basically the same way here in grad school.

It doesn’t logically matter to me how well I do. There is always a large part of me that reminds me that I’m only here by a fluke.