Recently I attended a session at uni where an academic got up on stage and told us about her time here. She had multiple degrees and worked for the University, yet she said something that struck me as odd, something I had never heard about before. She said that she’s waiting for someone to tap her on the shoulder one day as she walks around campus and tell her to pack up her office and leave- that the game is up, that she is a fraud and doesn’t belong here. I cannot recall anyone ever admitting such a thought before, yet only a few short weeks later an older mentor of mine said that she too felt like an impostor at Uni, that when she received her degree she almost burst out laughing as she believed it was ridiculous someone like her could achieve a degree!