Climbing the Mountain... How about an alternative metaphor?
This isn't my usual type of blog but my experience this past weekend has just been epic and I had to take the time to write about it. But I'm trying to write this, not so much from a perspective of what happened, but rather from a perspective of an emotional journey. Because it has been an emotional journey! OK, so on Friday night, after a 7 hour drive I was tired and I was stressed. I found myself panicking at 11pm thinking have I got to grips with my pre-reading? Have I remembered to bring my ID? Have I charged my phone and my laptop? Then there's the realisation of, what if I don't get on with my supervisor? Everyone's gonna be so much smater and more interesting than me. #ImposterSyndrome was setting in in a big way. So I didn’t sleep much and I set three alarms on my phonr to make sure I was up on time and didnt sleep innfor the srive in to campus. But I genuinely needn't have worried. I was barely ...