Somewhat like aquinas, I also went through multiple rounds of graduate school, completing my last round at a more typical age, in addition to taking more than one undergraduate degree program. I think the "extra" years allowed me to explore areas for reasons other than a career, and also gave me the freedom to step back from a career path that turned out to be more suited to me in the hypothetical than in reality. There may or may not be significance in the progression of my graduate programs from those that were more objective, analytical, and data-driven, to those that required increasing levels of emotional and psychological maturity.
Please say one area was genetics, because I wish I could clone you many times over and staff you in the senior ranks of every department of education worldwide. Seriously, aeh, the world needs more psychologists like you, who are able to see each child in front of them (gifted or otherwise) as an individual deserving of love and respect.
