Blue, that sounds like a really empowering exercise. I may try it; thanks for the suggestion. And for the record, you don't mess up everything. You're a credit to this board and to this planet.

Darth, I can definitely relate to academic grandiosity. My junior year of high school, I was convinced that I was destined to go to MIT, lol. I honestly believed that I was the smartest person on earth, and that I would figure out exactly how the universe worked so that everything can be explained and predicted.

As things turned out, I go to a public university that, while very good, is certainly not MIT caliber. I'm smart, but I'm far from being a genius, let alone the "smartest person on earth". And I'm having a hard enough time reviewing physics for the MCAT; I don't think I'll be discovering the theory of everything anytime soon.

Interestingly enough, grandiosity has had a positive effect on my work. It's motivating; if I hadn't been looking for the theory of everything, I probably would have found high school physics exceptionally boring. When I got hypomanic for the first time at 14, I thought that I would eventually discover time travel, so I started learning Latin so that I could communicate with the ancient Romans. I got through the entire book of Latin grammar in a month! Sadly, I don't remember most of it...but it has helped me learn Spanish and Italian, so I'm still benefiting from it.