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Dental school can be really hard. And throughout the day in the life as a dental student it can be easy to feel like you don't belong, that you're an imposter. In this video, Dani and I talk about our experiences dealing with imposter syndrome throughout dental school and as working dentists.
Former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday urged girls to resist the “imposter syndrome” she had felt on the way up and fight men for power, saying plenty of them didn’t deserve it.
As a black woman from a tough part of the Bronx who grew up to attain all the markers of academic prestige, Dena Simmons knows that for students of color, success in school sometimes comes at the cost of living authentically.