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I read this article, and I think to myself: "My goodness. This sounds just like graduate school."

In CS grad school, impostor syndrome is everywhere. Nobody talks about it. Everyone -- from the professors to the masters students -- is strongly affected by it.

The more you advance, the more taboo it is to talk about it, even though it doesn't go away. I understand the successful people just "get used to it" after a while.

Or maybe it's just me. If it is, wouldn't that be a certain kind of delicious irony?



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