Thank you guys. I really appreciated your answers and your words have given me insight to my own thinking...
You have found the distinction.
It is learning that fulfills you NOT academic attainment.
Now you can have both if you want, just maintain your focus on your love of learning and the rest will fall into place.
Now, go deeper...it is dukkha that you feel...all humans feel it but very few attain freedom from it and wisdom through it.
You feel dukkha because you feel desire for another state other than the state you are in.
This desire comes from not knowing that you are already complete in this very moment.
Tat tvam asi.:hug: