I don't mean to sound presumptuous, but let's face it: It's damn hard to convince anyone that you're a success if you get knocked up while still in high school.

So what does all this mean? Exactly what I told them what I felt about the gifted students that called themselves my peers: Being gifted doesn't make you smarter-- it makes you more arrogant. Many times, I have seen so-called "geniuses" do the stupidest fucking things (including this lady and her broken condom pity-prize) that could have been averted with the slightest thought or a single drop of common sense.

If you flip a coin a hundred times and guess it correctly each time, most people think one of two things:

The fact is that neither one is correct. The first one is the arrogant attitude; the mindset of a gifted student. Because they think they're always right, they let arrogance blind their judgment. The latter is the belief that probability always works out to be 50/50 eventually. In case you're wondering what the correct answer is, it's "My chances are, have always been, and always will be 50/50 for each coin toss." But that's besides the point:

The moral of the story is, "Being 'gifted' doesn't amount to DICK in the real world; like it or not."