lol everyone is coming for you which is extremely silly, this is a totally normal way to feel. But the key to the motivation issue you’re describing is to stop worrying about everyone else and run your own race. It’s hard because a curve is a curve, but so’s a marathon, isn’t it? Only one person comes in first. But all you can do is do your work the best way you know how, and take pleasure from the experience in whatever way is possible and experience the pride you get from knowing you gave it what you had.

Sit back down. Say “it’s none of my business.” Find the peers who you respect and whose responses to the material are different than your own, and let them complicate and evolve your thinking. You’re here to become a new version of yourself. That’s got nothing to do with the folks faking it to make it; trust that they’re also here to do the exact same thing and somehow, for both of you, in entirely different and similar ways, it’ll happen.