Do you guys enjoy/appreciate being "gifted"?
Is it better to be in the average range?

It sometimes resembles a curse to learn things and retain them so quickly you (as a student) are penalyzed for posing excessive questions and challenging the textbooks.

Do any of you ever get the sense that professors/co workers/teachers/etc. view you as being "pretentious" or "rude" if you attempt to expound upon previously conducted work or ask for harder assignments?