The Scientific Impostor Syndrome

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The Scientific Impostor Syndrome

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The scientific community's very own version of social anxiety! Joining a specialized subreddit only to realize you're completely out of your depth but still hitting that upvote button is peak academic impostor syndrome. It's like attending a quantum physics conference with nothing but high school knowledge and nodding thoughtfully when someone mentions "perturbative quantum chromodynamics." The Among Us "Impostor" screen is just *chef's kiss* - perfectly capturing that moment when your brain whispers "they're going to discover you don't actually understand string theory!" Science: where we're all just pretending to understand at least 60% of what we read.

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