[gamblor956]

I used to know someone like you, who thought they were the best programmer out of anyone they had ever met. They used to brag about how good a programmer they were, how they "aced" every tech interview they ever had, how everyone else at work was so incompetent and they were the only one who knew what the company should be doing. But it turns out that all of this superiority was just in their head. Everyone else thought this guy was just barely competent, and he kept getting fired from jobs because he insisted he knew more than everyone else and could not accept that he did not.

It's very likely that everyone around you is simply measuring competency/success by a different rubric than you are. It's irrelevant what your college peers think, but the fact that everyone at your intership cared about different things than you do should tell you that what you think is important isn't in the real world.

And you know what? That's normal. Most recent graduates start their first job thinking that they know better than their older fuddy-duddy coworkers, and discover the hard way that most of what they learned in school doesn't apply in the real world. On the job, you will rarely have the time or resources to do things perfectly; the quality of the work doesn't matter if it gets the job done; it's a waste of time to solve for future problems instead of just dealing with the problems you need to address by the next deadline.