I am physically disabled. I have spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative neuromuscular disease. I am wheelchair-bound and am nearly quadriplegic. This is not to complain, but rather to provide context. My Ph.D. thesis defense is scheduled for less than two months from now. It has been a long road. I am tired. It has also been literally a long time. It has been 10 years since I got my bachelor's degree and started the Ph.D. program. I only made it this far with the tireless support of my extraordinary advisor and a wonderful department. They never gave up on me. I am currently struggling with guilt, or shame, that it has taken me so long to get to the defense. My advisor, my department, and my family have not made me feel this way. But I still feel bad that it has taken me so long. How do I deal with feelings of guilt, shame, and inadequacy? I believe that all people have value, regardless of their success or failure or their intellectual ability. But somehow I guess I don't believe this applies to me. I am looking for help, support, or anecdotes related to feelings of guilt/shame/inadequacy in academia in particular (especially Ph.D. programs), and not necessarily about life in general.
is a psychological phenomenon wherein an individual is convinced that they do not deserve the success that they have achieved despite (perhaps extensive) empirical evidence to the contrary.  Some people with imposter syndrome doubt their own ability level. For me, this usually manifests in the thought:  I've somehow convinced everyone into believing that I'm actually good at this.  followed by the horrifying notion that eventually I'll be found out and my world will collapse. I believe that the imposter syndrome is not uncommon in academia. I'm interested to know how other people here have experienced and dealt with it.  In particular, I'm looking for actual tactics that someone might use to combat imposter syndrome.   Why I asked this question: Beyond the obvious reason that this is something I have struggled with for many years and only recently gotten a handle on myself, there's also some evidence that merely realizing that other people experience imposter syndrome helps fellow imposters. As a grad student, I've managed to meet a fair number of people who are in their own struggles with imposter syndrome; however, the tactics and self-trickery that have helped me don't always speak to them and perhaps someone else's methods might.
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Im going to use IVT to prove this, but I'm wondering if I can use the assumption that an odd degree polynomial has either two cases:  $$ \lim_{x\to\infty}h(x)=+\infty \\ \lim_{x\to-\infty}h(x)=-\infty \\ $$ $$and$$ $$ \lim_{x\to\infty}h(x)=-\infty \\ \lim_{x\to-\infty}h(x)=+\infty \\ $$ Then by this there exists numbers $a,b$ such that $$ h(a)&lt;0&lt;h(b) $$ $$or$$ $$ h(b)&lt;0&lt;h(a) $$ Which I think would prove that odd degreed $h(x)$ has at least a root. Or is there a more convincing way to show that there are numbers in $h(X)$ greater than zero and less than zero?  edit: (sorry about the bad limit notation) Install suspension forks on non-suspension bike How to remove the lines which appear on file B from another file A? How to debug EntityMalformedException? I've got fatal error EntityMalformedException: Missing bundle property on entity of type node. in entity_extract_ids() (line 7700 of .\includes\common.inc) when trying to access user/xyz.  I tried to retrieve info about the malformed node at line 7700, where the error message is built, thinks like :  if (!isset($entity-&gt;{$info['entity keys']['bundle']}) || $entity-&gt;{$info['entity keys']['bundle']} === '') {  dpm($info);// or dpm($entity);  throw new EntityMalformedException(t('Missing bundle property on entity of type @entity_type.', array('@entity_type' =&gt; $entity_type))); }   dpm($entity) returns an unexpected user object, and $info a huge qty of things.   Could somebody put me on the right way ?  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However, is there a nice way to describe all the ideals in $T$ specifically, or does it not behave quite as nicely? I am presenting a paper at a computer science conference.  The paper I submitted to the conference mentioned future work that would significantly enhance the utility of the method.  This work was work that was always planned to be part of the same "project" as the work in the paper, indeed the conference paper is presented as a part way step towards doing X, and the future work is what takes it all the way.  The extension was quite involved (and not quite complete when I submitted the paper for review). They day before I left for the conference that work was "completed", in that a journal article about it was submitted for review.  Now when I present at the conference, in the conclusion I want to mention the future work&nbsp;&ndash; at least to the extent that it was described in the conference paper. Should I go into more detail? 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