lol, I love one upping people if the occasion is right, and that was the right occasion. Sounds about like me in a gen ed class I had to take titled "Introduction to Microcomputer Applications," we were given 3 hours for the 50 question final, I took 9 minutes and only missed one due to not reading the question right. Do you ever catch a teacher's mistakes like in math class?
It's a little disappointing that girls are rare in the I.T. field. For me its hard to find a girl that I can chat with about something that is as exciting as tech. But for you its actually good. Not only do you have plenty of the opposite gender to talk to, but when it comes to jobs it would be easier for you to get a job because of the gender ratio, companies are probably more likely to hire you.
You are forgetting about Me, Vista is like 10,000 times better than Windows Me. I don't like XP, and am actually kind of glad that it dies off this year. I like Vista actually. I haven't had too many issues since SP2. And 7 is just awesome, 'cept the task bar, I hate 7 task bar. We have two computers per student in my class, one with Vista, and one with XP. I always use the Vista machine.
It was actually pretty easy once I knew what to do, but I had to Google what I need to do because I'm not a huge user of Linux. I wouldn't mind using it more, but I'm working on Windows Certifications, so its not a priority right now.