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when your on scioly during the superbowl

When your sig is digits of pi.

When you wish to add more RAM to your computer because your game stops working since it cannot allocate memory size: 172.

what game aom doesn't take up to much RAM

when you're a freshman in a pre-calc class full of juniors
when your friends nickname you nerd
when you watch c-span for hours on end
when your brother comes home every day saying they used your project as an example in english or the science teacher who is also an SO coach called you insanely smart
you spend your birthday at a SO competition, taking tests
when you call your parents who are at a football game and tell them about a new website you found for anatomy
when you take a book to a football/basketball game
when all of your emails are from science teachers about SO
when you calculate that you can fail all of your exams and still get an A, so you study for SO instead
when as soon as you weigh your 4-h pigs you run inside to graph it on excel and calculate the regression that best fits their growth (logistic) so you can estimate their fair weights and develop a new feed mixture so they will be at an ideal weight for the fair

When you would rather go to SO on your birthday instead of your friend's party
When you tell your friends that your reading the complete idiot's guide to microbiology when they text what's up.
When you talk to your Science Teacher about SO practice
When you make a new unimportant discovery in the field of microbiology when your 13. Then you ask your friends if it sounds reasonable.
When you tell your friends that the bacteria growing on their petri dish is actually mold.
When you feel like crying when you see that your bacteria in your petri dish stopped growing.
When you actually fit the description of at least five of these.

This is THE NERD TEST. I DID NOT MAKE THIS.
Sorry for the long post, but read it! IT'S FUNNY! (I had to remove some for age-appropriateness though)

1. Have you ever used a computer?
2. Have you ever programmed a computer?
3. Have you ever built a computer?
4. Done #2 continuously for more than four hours?
7. Do you wear glasses?
8. Are your glasses broken (e.g. taped) ?
9. Is your vision worse than 20/40?
10. Worse than 20/80?
11. Are you legally blind?
12. Have you ever asked a question in lecture?
13. Have you ever answered a question in lecture?
14. Have you ever corrected a professor?
15. Have you ever answered a rhetorical question?
16. Do you sit in the front row?
17. Do you take notes in more than one color?
18. Have you ever worn a calculator?
19. A pocket protector?
20. Have you ever used a microscope?
21. Have you ever used a telescope?
22. Have you ever used an oscilloscope?
23. Is your weight less than your IQ?
24. Have you ever done #2 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of
the same weekend?
25. Have you ever done #2 past 4 am?
27. Have you ever done #2 for money?
28. Do you own a Rubik's Cube?
29. Can you solve it?
30. Without the book?
31. Without looking?
32. Do you have acne?
33. Do you have greasy hair?
34. Are you unaware of it?
35. Have you ever bought anything from Radio Shack?
36. Did you redesigned anything from Radio Shack?
37. Do you know how to use a sliderule?
38. Do you know calculus?
39. Do you know Maxwell's Equations?
40. Do you have them on a T-shirt?
41. Have you ever dissected anything?
42. Do you know pi past five decimal places?
43. Do you know e past five decimal places?
44. Do you own more than $500 in electronics (excluding stereo)?
45. More than $1000?
46. Have you ever built more than $1000 worth of electronics?
48. Have you ever designed a multistep chemical synthesis?
49. Was it fun?
50. Have you ever read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
51. Was your math SAT more than 300 points higher than your verbal?
52. Have you ever worked on a Friday night?
53. While there's a party next door?
54. And wished that someone would invite you to come over?
55. Have you ever played a computer game?
56. Done #55 in the last three months?
57. Done #55 in the last three weeks?
58. Have you ever written a computer game?
59. Are your pants too short?
60. Do your socks mismatch?
61. Have you used a chemistry set?
62. After the age of 13?
63. Have you ever played D&D (or other role-playing game)?
64. Since high school?
65. Have you ever entered a science fair?
66. Did you win?
67. Do you own a digital watch?
68. Does it play music?
69. Does it have a calculator?
70. Have you ever used a rare earth element?
71. Do you own a CRC?
72. Do you own a CRT?
73. Do you own an HP calculator?
74. Do you know how to use it?
75. Were you ever on a chess team?
76. Were you ever on a debate team?
77. Do you know more than three programming languages?
78. More than eight?
79. Have you ever made a technical joke?
80. Did no one get it?
81. Can you name more than ten Star Trek episodes?
82. Are you socially inept?
83. Do you own a pencil case?
84. Do you wear it?
85. Do you know Schrodinger's equation?
86. Have you ever solved it?
87. Have you ever used the word "asymptotic"?
88. Can you count in binary?
89. Have you ever broken into a computer system?
90. A government system?
91. Have you ever changed your bank account?
92. Changed someone else's?
93. Done #2 for money?
94. Have you ever inhaled helium?
95. Do you know the Latin name for a fruit fly?
96. Do you own anything that is radio controlled?

Hmm, I guess I'm not a typical nerd (i.e computer nerd) because only 37 of the above apply to me.

You know you are a physics nerd when you can name all 6 quarks, all 6 leptons, and all 4 fundamental interactions without much effort.
...when you get upset at a chemistry book for not mentioning neutrinos when discussing beta decay.
...when your user name and avatar reference to a quantum physics thought experiment.
You know you are a math nerd when you insisted during math class in primary grades you can subtract 6 from 5 and it was equal to negative 1.

Schrodingerscat wrote:You know you are a physics nerd when you can name all 6 quarks, all 6 leptons, and all 4 fundamental interactions without much effort.
...when you get upset at a chemistry book for not mentioning neutrinos when discussing beta decay.

I feel the same way about the neutrinos...

The list is funny but really exaggerated...chess club? Pocket protectors? The '90s are over.

aubrey048 wrote:37. Do you know how to use a sliderule?

This one hit home with me, though...b-but, I can explain! An old lady dusted it off from her desk and showed me how to use it. I guess caring enough qualifies as a nerdy trait?

Frogger4907 wrote:I feel the same way about the neutrinos...

I really hope you're being facetious...

Reading back a little...

rkoopma2 wrote:they used your project as an example in english or the science teacher who is also an SO coach called you insanely smart

I'm guilty of both of these.

...when you get to do a marine animal project in 4th grade and decide to study a nudibranch.
(about that...the teacher thought I meant something with "nude" in it and wouldn't let me...ended up doing "octopus" instead )