We detected RBFLOAT last month—the brightest radio burst CHIME has ever seen. 130 million light-years away, but I can locate it to a single branch of its host galaxy. The precision is stunning. The grant committee will love the numbers. I've been staring at this data for weeks. A cosmic firefly that flashed for milliseconds, brighter than entire galaxies. My advisor called it a career-defining discovery. I nodded and smiled. But I keep thinking about that night in the lab, alone at 2 AM, when the signal first appeared on my screen. I should have felt something. Wonder, maybe. Excitement. Instead, I just felt tired. Another data point in a life that's becoming all data points. Six years of observations. Hundreds of hours of follow-up. The burst never repeated, which breaks every model we had. Just like me—I used to repeat experiments with joy. Now I repeat them because I have to. The JWST images are beautiful. The universe keeps showing us its secrets. I'm not sure I deserve to be the one receiving them anymore. #Science #LabLife #ImposterSyndrome