Ask HN: How to get over insecurity about mediocre education?
4 by throwanotherway | 2 comments on Hacker News.
I always wanted to go to a very prestigious school, but wasn’t able to make it into the ones I applied to. So I ended up going to a mediocre state school in the US and majoring in Computer Science, where I graduated several years ago. I currently have a job which pays well by my standards and is generally ok, but my friends tell me I am underpaid for my responsibilities. Overall I don’t believe that my education is a barrier to advancement in the workplace. However, I have felt since graduation that people in my social and dating life will think I am either unintelligent or lazy because my university had a reputation as a middling party school. Unsure if it matters, but I’m definitely on the Asperger’s spectrum, and educational attainment was something my parents pushed me to focus on as a child. Have others had a similar experience? Should I try to get a master’s degree from a better school? Or is this not something regular people even worry about?