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zeratultassadar
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia30 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 20:31:23
April 30 2010 20:28 GMT
#1
In high school no one gives the downtrodden nerd a second glance. Nerds are despised and looked down upon as the most socially incapable and miserable members of high school society. Nerds form the lowest rung on the social ladder. Everyone either hates nerds or feels really sorry for them...or do they?

Let's get one thing straight. This goes out to all the jocks, cheerleaders, emo kids, cool Asians, and possibly any other clique to whom may apply: we nerds don't want your sympathy. We don't want you to show interest in us or try to make friends with us, simply because we are better off alone, talking amongst each other about Richard Feynman and AP Calculus.

You know what, we know your secret. You guys are just jealous of us nerds, plain and simple jealous. While you guys spend your free time going to parties and getting drunk, us nerds work our asses off doing homework. While you guys ridicule us and humiliate us, we know deep down that you're doing it because you guys want to be just like us, and we try to hide our smiles even as we're being ostracized by the "cool kids". While you guys will go to community college and work at McDonalds for the rest of your pathetic lives, us nerds will graduate from the Ivy League schools and land the biggest jobs out there. So, for anyone who isn't a nerd, I hope you enjoy prom, because it will be the last night your parents pamper and support you until you all get crude reality checks.

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Caller
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Poland8075 Posts
April 30 2010 20:30 GMT
#2
On May 01 2010 05:28 zeratultassadar wrote:
In high school no one gives the downtrodden nerd a second glance. Nerds are despised and looked down upon as the most socially incapable and miserable members of high school society. Nerds form the lowest rung on the social ladder. Everyone either hates nerds or feels really sorry for them...or do they?

Let's get one thing straight. This goes out to all the jocks, cheerleaders, emo kids, cool Asians, and possibly any other clique to whom may apply: we nerds don't want your sympathy. We don't want you to show interest in us or try to make friends with us, simply because we are better off alone, talking amongst each other about Richard Feynman and AP Calculus.

You know what, we know your secret. You guys are just jealous of us nerds, plain and simple jealous. While you guys spend your free time going to parties and getting drunk, us nerds work our asses off doing homework. While you guys ridicule us and humiliate us, we know deep down that you're doing it because you guys want to be just like us, and we try to hide our smiles even as we're being ostracized by the seniors. While you guys will go to community college and work at McDonalds for the rest of your pathetic lives, us nerds will graduate from the Ivy League schools and land the biggest jobs out there. So, for anyone who isn't a nerd, I hope you enjoy prom, because it will be the last night your parents pamper and support you until you all get crude reality checks.

this is a load of bullshit

also, come to my school you'll love it here
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Shade692003
Profile Joined August 2005
Canada702 Posts
April 30 2010 20:30 GMT
#3
I guess this a venting blog.
I hate the post below mine because it feels War3-ish.
Kin~Slayer
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada56 Posts
April 30 2010 20:32 GMT
#4
band kids > everyone
The6357
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States1268 Posts
April 30 2010 20:34 GMT
#5
i think the guy working at burgerking near my work is a nerd...and he is in mid 20s i think
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25998 Posts
April 30 2010 20:34 GMT
#6
I don't get why you can't be a nerd and be part of society too. You paint yourself as some hooded figure hiding in the shadows.
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VTArlock
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1763 Posts
April 30 2010 20:37 GMT
#7
On May 01 2010 05:34 Chill wrote:
I don't get why you can't be a nerd and be part of society too. You paint yourself as some hooded figure hiding in the shadows.


Some nerds have no social skills yo lol. Maybe hes one of them?
Why?
otsukaresama
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Japan23 Posts
April 30 2010 20:37 GMT
#8
On May 01 2010 05:28 zeratultassadar wrote:we are better off alone, talking amongst each other about Richard Feynman and AP Calculus


Alone and talking about Richard Feynman and AP Calculus? Good troll...

I doubt too many people in high school would care about Richard Feynman, nor do they know much about him besides being a Nobel prize winner. I am sure most high school students who talk about Richard Feynman can hardly explain the multiple quantum well coupling effects or prove why the effective mass of electron is zero in graphene. There is no such thing as AP Calculus. It's just high school sugar coated way of saying basic calculus.

Enjoying life is a good things. There are things more important than just closing out society and concentrating only on school.
otsu!
SoLaR[i.C]
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
United States2969 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 20:43:31
April 30 2010 20:39 GMT
#9
1/5. This is bad even by blog standards.

Do you realize that by calling yourself a nerd and acknowledging cliques with very specialized interests/pathways you've fallen under the same spell that you so ardently disapprove of?

You'll learn it's not so simple as this and even most nerds won't land "the biggest jobs" as you put it. Additionally, you can be a "nerd" and still immerse yourself in fun, outgoing situations. Don't limit yourself; that's the quickest way to succeed.
Dr. Tran
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States125 Posts
April 30 2010 20:39 GMT
#10
go to college, everything will become clearer then (and by clearer I mean, that social status doesn't mean shit)
BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
April 30 2010 20:41 GMT
#11
If your way of thinking is this you won't accomplish anything major.

It's the connection you make while in high school or college. You can be brilliant, but if you don't know how to interact with the world around you no one will put up with your social ineptness and help you land that big job you spent 4 years of your life preparing for.

And you're going to need help because you'll be competing with the top nerds from your school. Also fuck you I went to community college.
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
VerticalHorizon
Profile Joined September 2004
United States415 Posts
April 30 2010 20:43 GMT
#12
You know there are people out there who are amazing at academics, land sweet jobs after college, and still have insanely fun social lives filled with loving friends and wonderful, exciting experiences right? I know because I'm one of them. Instead of walling yourself off perhaps you should be the first to extend a hand and get to know some of your peers because no matter how much more superior you believe yourself to be due to your greater intellectual prowess (which in and of itself is debatable), they are still just that - your peers.

If the partying and "cool kids" really don't mean shit to you, why are you even bothering to write this post? If you are truly that secure and confident about your personal lifestyle and the choices/friends you've made, you shouldn't feel the need to spew this kind of bitterness at all.

And trust me, they're not jealous of you... lol.
Call it the greatest sin to prefer existence over honor and, for the sake of life, to lose the reasons for living. - Juvenal, Satires
Uncle Leo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
60 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 20:44:30
April 30 2010 20:43 GMT
#13
OP doesn't want other people that aren't nerds to approach him, yet is pissed that non-nerds don't approach him. Haters gonna hate I guess Also, I am a nerd that plays sports. I don't think OP thinks I exist.
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
April 30 2010 20:53 GMT
#14
drunk nerds are hilarious
LordWeird
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3411 Posts
April 30 2010 20:55 GMT
#15
God I'm glad I'm out of school and I don't have to file people under certain categories/cliques any more. If you want to label yourself a nerd and portray yourself like you're on the outside looking in then all you're doing is setting yourself up for more depression and anger and angst.
Chains none
krndandaman
Profile Joined August 2009
Mozambique16569 Posts
April 30 2010 21:04 GMT
#16
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blahman3344
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2015 Posts
April 30 2010 21:20 GMT
#17
hey man, if this is about not being able to go to prom with a date, then dont worry about it. I know a lot of cool people from my school who aren't going to my jprom for the same reason =\

feel better i guess?
I like haikus and / I can not lie. You other / brothers can't deny
selboN
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2523 Posts
April 30 2010 21:26 GMT
#18
Someone got scarred in High School...
"That's what happens when you're using a mouse made out of glass!" -Tasteless (Referring to ZergBong)
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32139 Posts
April 30 2010 21:27 GMT
#19
On May 01 2010 05:28 zeratultassadar wrote:
cool Asians

huh
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EDEdDNEdDYFaN
Profile Joined June 2009
United States40 Posts
April 30 2010 21:32 GMT
#20
OP is living in a dream world
Wineandbread
Profile Joined September 2009
United States2065 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 21:46:46
April 30 2010 21:46 GMT
#21
You must go to a pretty rough school bro. I'd say I'm pretty nerdy and a lot of people look up to the smart people. Who's to say a nerd can't go to Prom?

I agree with SoLaR[i.C]... you're being hypocritical if you're showing hatred to them.

And for the record, the ability to socialize and to interact with others who don't always see eye to eye with you is important for success as well. It's not all about the brains.
cz
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States3249 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 21:49:12
April 30 2010 21:48 GMT
#22
You are young and are painting yourself into a false dichotomy. You can be nerdy and popular or whatever you want if you live your own life, don't care what people think of you, and work hard.

When you get to university you'll find a lot of people who fit the above: have high marks and are definitely aiming for graduate school, but also have great social lives / get laid all the time / etc.
SilentCrono
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1420 Posts
April 30 2010 21:55 GMT
#23
http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=122565
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Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
April 30 2010 21:59 GMT
#24
With no social skills, even if you go to an Ivy, you still won't "succeed" in life.

I know plenty of people who are very smart (albeit not brilliant) and sociable.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 22:05:05
April 30 2010 22:04 GMT
#25
On May 01 2010 06:04 krndandaman wrote:
nerds =/= social outcast

i think you've been picked on too much in highschool lol

pretty much this.

I know LOADS of nerds that are "popular" and have no social problems whatsoever. Hell, you seem to be the one supporting the stereotypical "nerd". Sure, maybe they are less social on average, but every nerd isn't some guy who stays in the basement all day and looks like this:
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If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Holgerius
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden16951 Posts
April 30 2010 22:09 GMT
#26
Being a nerd in combination with being a cool kid is possible. I'm sitting in at a party right now.
I believe in the almighty Grötslev! -- I am never serious and you should never believe a thing I say. Including the previous sentence.
Blyadischa
Profile Joined April 2010
419 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-30 22:23:41
April 30 2010 22:23 GMT
#27
You shouldn't pride yourself on your "intelligence" when you project your jealousy onto your peers to rationalize your own social shortcomings
nTooMuch
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States127 Posts
April 30 2010 23:02 GMT
#28
SC Nerds >>>> Everyone
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