Very interesting and, I think, insightful. The idea had occurred to me that nerds are unpopular because they are too busy with, well, more interesting stuff to play the games that need to be played in order to be part of the social A-list. Paul Graham looks much more deeply into this.
Perhaps the most important thing to take away from this is this: If you have kids of your own, remember how hellish it was, remember what you went through, and what your children might be going through now. Talk to them about it, tell them what it was like for you at school, tell them that it really isn't like that in the world outside school.
Also, bear in mind that they might be on the other side of the fence - they might be the ones giving other children a hard time. If they are, that doesn't make them bad people - most children do this to some extent. But if you can point out to them the error of their ways, you'll be saving them some guilt in later life.
Posted to Apropos of nothing by Simon Brunning at February 14, 2003 05:53 PMhey! i like what youve written, its kinda emotional when you think about it.
i can just imagine what some kids have to go through EVERY day!!! i dont think i could spend one day in a "nerds" shoes.....id probably trip, and fall.
any ways...i gotta go...im at school....buh bye!!
~*Katie*~
First of all, I would like to state that nerds are really actually very cool people. People who are social creatures; though they socialize in different forms for what the so call cool people do (e.g. a LAN (Local Area Network) party).
Nerds, being excluded from the “cool” crowd are less likely to do drugs, drink, and acquire HIV (they can’t get girlfriends). Furthermore, they usually do well in school achieving in the sciences, especially calculus and computer sciences.
Nerd’s often don’t care what people think of them; they don’t mind being called a nerd or geek, rather thinking of it as a compliment. Nerds often have a wealth of knowledge build by, first of all attending class and secondly, more importantly, they acquire their knowledge by doing a variety of hands on “nerdy” activities, such as building computer, programming, model building, math and calculus for fun, science and science experiment, and other electronics projects. Thirdly nerd’s gain knowledge though the internet, reading web text and taking to fellow nerds. It is this knowledge that will dive our generation of nerd, like the last generation, to do many great things, often becoming rich and famous or discovering some thing that will greatly benefit man kind.
Finally, now we see that nerds though slightly differently then “the cool people” on the outside (often being, pale and pimp faced) are really cooler that the so call “cool people” mentally and because of that will rule the world.
Note: this does not apply to all kind of nerd, just mostly math, science, computer nerds.
thanx to popularity some of the "nerds" join the trench coat mafia, who's laughing now?...
And one of those "nerds" was erik haris, if this keeps happening then i see popularity to be the sole cause of those events.
Posted by: anti popularitist on September 26, 2004 11:52 PMin the meangirls we were called "the plastics" i was just wondering what people in your school call the popular kids?
Posted by: gretchen on January 2, 2005 08:09 PMat my school we dont have a name.. kids just seem to know there "popularity" and u wont see a kid who likes to take computer programing sit at the cheerleaders table they all sit with eachother.
Posted by: nasti on February 11, 2005 04:11 PMnerds are nice people. at my school there are all kinds of cliques and they know what clique they are in. i cant stand the way people get treated bad by the popular people. i think everyone should just get along. Everyone gets picked on or made fun of just because of who they hang out with i think just because you hang out with someone they should not make fun of you.
Posted by: becky on October 26, 2005 03:31 PMwell, i love nerds they are cool and i go out with one, he is veryyy smexi
Posted by: me dumb and sexy on November 27, 2005 06:33 AMNERDS ARE LOOSERS, period. Sucks to be them.
Posted by: Will on March 30, 2006 03:26 AMI tried being friends with nerds before but they can be very cold people aswell.
Posted by: Kristen on April 13, 2006 09:01 PMHey Will, nice spelling of the word loser (looser?). And Kristen, aswell? Is this something that happens when you sit on a hot surface? Sorry, but I'm pissed off. I'm a 30 year old that still gets picked on occasionally at work by a few guys. Ya know why? Because they have below average intelligence and they know I overshadow them :)
Posted by: Seth on September 18, 2006 08:31 PMO-M-G.
Like many people call me nerd and all but like WHATEVER. It's like I get an A 100 and some popular kids get a 67 D so they're like what grade did u get and i'm like 100 and they're like what a nerd!
First they act so nice then they backfire....JEALOUSY I love being a nerd but that doesn't meen i'm a girl that doesnt care about her hair and all. No. I think i'm pretty and elegant and smart and yeah we have cliques and I hate it!
Posted by: 2smart4u on February 1, 2007 10:59 PMok i feel bad for you all fools. look at this dude above me....wow you get 100% wow you must be cool,,, i think id be cooler f*** a b**** and talk about it to all da guys and be an alphamale than get an "A" on a paper
aight peace
Nerds make the world go round.
who invented cars. Nerds.
Who helped you when your computer died. Nerds.
Who lifted you 10,000 feet into the air, so you could fly to another country? nerds.
Who sat with you, and listened to you spew your endless bullshit about how your stomach hurts, and bothered diagnosing you? nerds.
Who invented the workout machine, that gave you the physical strength to be able to treat nerds like shit? thats right. Nerds did.
Go back to the stone age jock, the futures in the nerds hands.
Posted by: anonymous on March 13, 2008 06:14 AMI'm a nerd. I think cheerleaders are so freaking sexy. I can't be the only one...can I?
Posted by: Cory on May 29, 2008 01:41 AM