This probably isn’t something a professor should be telling you, but I walk into class at the beginning of every semester feeling just as anxious as I did more than twenty years ago when I began teaching at the University of Texas at Austin. This is the same flagship institution that I came to as part of the first generation in my family to attend college. I had arrived here in the mid-eighties as a kid from Brownsville and came back in 2004 as a published author and creative-writing professor, neither of which anyone back home, me included, would’ve imagined.This isn’t your typical impostor syndrome; it isn’t an imagined lack of the required skills or accomplishments that makes me uneasy, just the idea of someone…
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