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The way I pulled it off is basically by pure chance. A few classmates had gotten the impression (still don’t know how or why) that I was a good student. Whenever they had any difficulty at all they’d ask me. As such I was constantly explaining a bunch of stuff, especially the more difficult parts of the material. So from the moment I first understood it I just kept on repeating it to others endlessly.
In retrospect that’s probably what helped me get through the whole thing.
Haha, that is some fantastic imposter syndrome right there. "People thought I had answers for some unknown reason. So they came to me for answers and I kept providing the with correct answers. Weird."
I mean… yes. Definitely yes to the impostor syndrome. But people thinking I had answers made me pay attention differently and made me work harder to understand stuff because people were counting on me to always know.
It was like having an accidental accountability buddy. I could be questioned on the testing material basically at any point in time. So I tried to always be ready.
That makes sense. I had a consistent fear that I would graduate, get a job, and not know what I was doing at all. So it pushed me to understand materials beyond what the class required.
Perhaps its because we are good at "pretending to be focused"?
A lot of people said I give off the impression of a "good student" but deep down I wonder how fast people will figure out.XD
Having dependable/depended friends sure sounds like a good motivation.
Nah, I wasn’t pretending. I enjoyed 85% of all of my courses so usually I was hyper focusing during class. The remaining 15% of courses were pure hell though.