Not feeling accomplished

[qwe7791]

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I'm sitting here pondering about the things I've done so far in college, and it turns out I didn't do much. I've volunteered a small amount at a hospital, got into prestigious summer programs, taught other people science, etc. Despite everything, I'm just not feeling accomplished.. I mean right after I teach someone a subject or right after I got out of the summer programs, I felt extremely good and nothing could stop me. But since time has passed, I'm just feeling like the things I have participated means nothing... if that makes any sense.. I feel so hopeless.. 🙁

 

[Lya]

It's natural and common.

Whenever I read bios of scholars for Rhodes, Soros, and etc., I felt so hopeless too. I know how that feels.


Remember, though, that you have to do your best, pursue your goals, and hope for the best. You are not the only one feeling hopeless! Just feeling hopeless all the time isn't going to change anything much =]

 

[Doctor Strange]

 

[Radon XP]

Not everybody cures cancer and builds a spaceship to the moon.

 

[usvn]

I get the feeling that, 30 years ago, it was okay to simply be passionate and do what is intresting in college. Now, however, getting into medical school has gotten so ultra competitive that it is not okay to simply do what is intresting.

You have to be as straight as an arrow in the activities you participiate in during college, otherwise it will take some years after college doing those things in order to be competitive enough.

Recognize however, that as long as this is what you truly passionate about you will get there eventually.

I know the exact feeling you have, you are not alone 🙂

 

[Irish Football]

Not everybody cures cancer and builds a spaceship to the moon.

I did both and I still don't feel accomplished.

 

[IncognitoGuy]

Do what you enjoy and stick to it - then you won't be so fixated on its significance. Everybody deals with this, so just know that it's only a comparison if you make it one.

Also, think about it.. what are you using as a metric for "accomplished"? Unless you can really define it meaningfully, you're wasting your time.

 

[yehhhboiii]

you contributed positively to someone's life. that's an accomplishment.

 

[stgt9202]

Yea I definitely felt like that but honestly it's you're own self letting you down. I would feel like a complete failure multiple times but then people would tell me how they feel intimidated by what I do. So there's definitely lots of people who think you're accomplished. Also let that motivate you more to get to where you want to go. Isn't there a quote that says if you're the smartest person in the room then there's something wrong? Yep. There will always be people worse and better than you. Just work to be better than your best. 🙂