Milli shared her experience on TikTok, revealing that she was involved in the ‘Gifted and Talented program in the 90s’. She recently rediscovered her old binder, which sparked some intriguing insights.
She hinted: “The things I found. […] For starters they had us doing worksheets in morse code.”
In her video, the TikToker displays one of these worksheets, noting that the top of the page explained the morse code system, and students were tasked with completing the rest to create codes and messages in morse code.
She explains: “A lot of our worksheets were about different codes, literally called ‘Codes to Crack’.
“So you can see there, they gave us like eight letters and each of the columns is a different code.
“For this one there was eight letters and they gave us the corresponding letters and then we had to figure out the rest of the alphabet and fill in the rest of the column.”
There was more to the program, according to Milli, which led her to wonder about what they were being ‘trained’ for.
“Like why was I 10 years old speaking Russian?” she questions. “It’s cool but I don’t actually remember anything except that’s my name.”
Another TikToker, Rachelthedreamer, speculated whether the program could have been a ‘CIA Gateway program’.
People quickly jumped in with their own experiences and stories related to the program.
One TikToker shared: “I had so much fun figuring out the codes that I never thought anything of it?? One of my friends said a Russian individual came to her gate program to talk about Russian culture in southern USA??”
Another remarked on the vague memories associated with the program: “And why do most of us only “faintly” remember any of it.”
A third participant recalled: “I remember the code worksheets!!! Loved those. Completely blocked that out for decades until just now.”
A fourth noted: “GATE Seminar program. Four years with same teacher and same six classmates in the same room. Why don’t I remember a single thing except the building and entryway? Zero memories.”
Lastly, someone concluded: “Strange because what you’re showing looks oddly familiar, like I’ve seen it before but at the same time I can’t recall. Hard to explain, but I guess if you know… You know.”