Re: Prose....HA!
Having spent some number of years at the top undergraduate engineering school in the country, well, yes.
There were some there who focused on one thing and did it very, very well. However, they neglected everything else. Sometimes this was not of their own choice.
An example is one individual who (poorly) sewed his own costume with a long green pointed hat and misshapen nightgown, and wore it exclusively. That and singing unintelligible songs outside at night, while dragging himself along the ground with his arms alone, his legs tucked up inside his clothes (self-termed "weebling").
If we were a little far off the beaten path, he was in another galaxy. But despite all of that, he wrote programs and performed mathematics on pure intuition. His sophomore year was spent completing beyond-graduate-level studies and delving into unexplored mathematical territory.
He also has 7,545 comments on Slashdot to date.
