pitt essay

To this day, Jocelyn's three words play constantly in my head, as if through a God microphone. Make yourself useful, she'll say, and I'll ask myself: Am I being useful? Do people appreciate me and the work I'm doing? Should the answer be no, that's all the motivation I need to push myself even harder.

It's also a source of my huge lack of confidence, my perceived inferiority, and the reason I have a giant gaping chasm where my self-esteem should be!!!!!!!