practicality

XD How's the good old soul grinding going? Don't worry, the CS stuff will come in very handy, especially in college. If you go to MIT, everybody in some way or other ought to know how to program. I mean, even when I was working in Cognitive Science programming was very much a very large (and painful) element of my lab life. :3 You won't regret learning it, though you might hate the world eternally for making you. :D

And you should post progress pictures for your Sephiroth cosplay so I can heckle you about not looking as buff as a linebacker. :P