Ask HN: Are you ok?
I&quot;m not doing too well. Obligatory I&#x27;m doing better than many here, but I still feel that I have my own problems.<p>For one, I&#x27;m younger than many people here, so about a year from now I&#x27;ve got all of the fun of the college application process to look towards. This year I&#x27;ve started taking all of my classes at my state&#x27;s university, which has been a very good experience academically, so for the first time there is a real feeling that my grades matter. This stems from two roots, first I have a feeling of imposter syndrome when it comes to learning and also I&#x27;m worried about being a class in which I have a hard time following the professor or the assignments seem unclear, which I am currently experiencing in one of my classes. Also, I still have activities at my high school before and after university, so I spend over two and a half hours every day commuting.<p>That ties into another of my problems, I feel like I over-invest in everything I do and it often hurts, though I have yet to be entirely burned by anything. Currently I&#x27;m on an FRC team, and have lead an initiative to put rookies through FTC and I&#x27;m the main student coordinator on that while feeling that I myself don&#x27;t know enough or have the time to learn.<p>This post in itself has been disconcerting for me, I&#x27;ve always felt that my mindset is very similar to others on HN, just a decade or two younger, and I very much imagine being in similar situations to many here a few years from now. I&#x27;m struggling with questions such as whether I&#x27;ll be able to get into top colleges, or even the worth of getting into such programs assuming that financial aid is hard to come by.