As my first game of FO:NV ever, let's just say I'm trying to RP myself as an idiot savant as a result of my early-on gunshot would to the head.
It's the only way to justify the high amounts of skill that I have put into science and energy weapons while at the same time rationalizing my tendency to walk into obvious traps and do utterly stupid, out of character things for someone who used to be a simple courier.