Hey, thanks for the reply! I definitely see what you're saying, and I think I've even been guilty of sulking when someone has done better than I. And I know that I have plenty of cognitive distortions at any given time.

I don't think I felt that I wanted classmates to celebrate with or congratulate me--it doesn't matter if they acknowledge what I do academically or not; that post was for my friends and loved ones. I think what frustrates me is the, "Well. She just thinks she's so smart" types of comments that get thrown around here and there during the semester. It doesn't only happen to me. One of the guys in my class mentioned a snarky comment he received because, during a test review, he happened to be answering quite a few of the questions correctly. He was like, "I've been a medical assistant for ten years, yes. But I studied! I worked hard to learn that material!" Like...are you really mad at us because we have experience? Or are you mad at us because we study and know the material? Or are you just mad? Because none of those things are anything I'm going to do anything about.

Anyway, thanks again for the message. Spoke to some of the nurses at work today, and I'm feeling much better about the situation in general.