This one was tricky. I wasn't quite sure what my biggest insecurity was, and how I would post a picture of it. Then when I was working on my three papers that are due soon for school, it hit me: success. Not really success itself though; I don't necessarily fear being successful (actually I take that back...in some ways I do. It's hard to explain). But the road to success is what I'm insecure about. And I'm not entirely sure why. I've done really well in college, was accepted to the graduate program that I'm in within days of applying, found out that I was the top choice of the department for being a graduate TA, and so far have gotten A's in everything I've done in grad school. This all isn't to brag (honestly!), but to explain why it's weird that I am insecure about these kinds of things. I have surprisingly little faith in myself when it comes to succeeding and have far too many episodes that consist of "I'm going to fail this paper", "I want to drop out of grad school!" and "I'm going to disappoint [insert any of my professors here]". I think part of the reason for this insecurity is that I never pictured myself going to graduate school. It all happened very quickly; my adviser practically forced me to apply, then forced me to apply for the assistantship, then a few days later I was accepted to graduate school, then a couple weeks after that I was offered the job. I also didn't picture myself doing original research, and here I am beginning my thesis quest. This may not make sense to those reading this, but it's not really even failure that I'm insecure about. Like I said, it's the road to success and the idea that I can't handle it.
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