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My Struggle with Impostor Syndrome

I sat in the meeting room filled with other engineers and stared at the projection screen. Like a newborn child, I couldn’t understand most of what I was looking at or hearing. I recognized almost none of the acronyms and comprehended little of the discussion that was happening. An intern, taking a break from his Ph.D. program to spend a few months at our company, was presenting the results of a summer’s work. He had done…