wow, still more wtf comments. ok. i think i can sum up most of these as: you are saying that life is hard and you should limit the choices available to people.

wow, still more wtf comments. ok. i think i can sum up most of these as: you are saying that life is hard and you should limit the choices available to people. if you don't reach for anything you can't be disappointed. or do you think only the 'gifted' sometimes find that what they want wasn't all they thought it would be? this is a good one: "If your teachers in a gifted program look down on computing as a career, that certainly isn't encouraging."\ how about this: If you teacher looks down on your desired course of life, that could be discouraging. The teacher being in a 'gifted program' doesn't really have any bearing unless 'gifted' students are weak and fragile and will collapse under the weight of having to follow some preordained path that they simply were unable to deviate from.