the self

Is it funny or is it just sad that so many people think so little of themselves? As I read applications I thought, how did I ever get into graduate school?" and when I told others that I was reading applications, they wanted to know how they ever got into graduate school. At the job skills seminar, the lecturer for the day discussed the job candidates in the ecology section. The average publication record was 13 articles. She then stated, "if I were applying this year instead of last year, I would not have gotten the job." How in the world could she possibly know that? Maybe we all just need to get over ourselves.