Imposter Syndrome No Match for Superiority Complex

Graduate student Sadie Stern recently announced that her struggle with feelings of inadequacy is over. After spending almost an entire semester with her peers, Stern has developed a superiority complex so vile, it will corrupt all future interactions with others.

Once fearful that her slowness to learn and inability to spell “receipt” correctly on the first try would label her an outcast in her graduate program, Stern reports that her feelings of worthlessness were unable to withstand her blistering disapproval of her peers. Among the most egregious offenders to Stern’s psyche were doctoral candidates old enough to be her parents.

Stern’s feelings of insecurity evaporated as she watched her peers argue over the best place to purchase a chicken sandwich in College Station and struggle to send a professional email. Their backwards views on modern medicine, politics, and traditional gender roles all helped assuage her feelings that she would be the stupidest person in the room at all times.

Although initially glad that her imposter syndrome was cured, Stern is now worried that this is the beginning of a lifelong struggle with her own ego.

 

—  Ring Chunks