On being a recovering perfectionist and feeling like an impostor![]()

Hamizah Haji-HaidiWed, 06/26/2019 - 11:29
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Now that it’s the start of the new term again, I thought I would write an entry about the impostor syndrome, as it is something that every Cambridge/PhD student would experience at least once in their life.
In my second term at Cambridge, one of the trainers in the Researcher Development Programme asked me the following question: “Do you think that you are not smart enough for Cambridge?”