Due to the commercialisation people are impressed if you can actually use Windows.
Today you are a guru if you know MS-DOS and HTML.

So I can write exploits, so I can program in multiple programming languages, so I can FUBAR your box, Am I skilled? NO

If I read the courses they teach at the university I'm likely to go to, that's some 1337 stuff.
e.g. Compilers & languages, AI programming,...