You need to think about sampling as well.. how good (you think) you are depends a lot on who you are comparing yourself to. Like those who were top of their cla

You need to think about sampling as well.. how good (you think) you are depends a lot on who you are comparing yourself to. Like those who were top of their class in school ... then went to a top-flight university and were shocked to find out that they were struggling at the bottom of their new peer-group. It is easy to think that you are the bees' knees when you are surrounded by jaded, cynical and burnt-out engineers, and you still have the energy and naive optimism of youth.