You Know You're A Nerd When...

[fossilgirl4ever]

When you're super super popular... in SO.

My friend is guilty of this. At school, she's not extremely popular (ha not a bad way), but we get to regionals and she hugs/screams/waves at 2/3 or more of the people...

[aubrey048]

You Know You're A Nerd When...

...the highlight of your academic year is Science Olympiad.

...you burst into tears after seeing a test grade lower than 95.

...you and your friends enjoy making Weird Al-esque nerdy spoofs of songs. Example: "Don't you wish your girlfriend was SMART like me? Don't you wish your girlfriend was a GEEK like me?" Example 2: "SuperGEEK! SuperGEEK! She's super-GEEKY!" (Not my idea, but I helped)

...you actually have an interest in learning to program. I confess that I do.

...practically the only books you read are Science or Science Fiction books. I am guilty of this.

...you've been to JPL. (AND IT WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE!)

...you've driven a Mars rover at JPL. (I have!!!)

...Tesla is your idol.

...the only shows you ever watch on TV are all on the Discovery Channel. (THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL FTW!)

...starpug says you are the biggest nerd he's never met. (He has told me this)

...you name elements off the periodic table to fall asleep.

...you actually like balancing chemical equations. (Guilty as charged)

...you proofread the local newspaper for fun. (Hey, I can't help it! Their editor should be fired. )

...you design your SO team's shirts, and spell the team name out of the periodic table! (EPICNESS)

...you and your friend come up with nerd pick-up lines for fun (but never use them). (Examples: You might say I'm a charmed quark, and if you'd be my antiparticle, I'd really make your head spin.
Forgive me if these lines sound a little obtuse--I've saved them specially for acute boy like yourself.)

...95% of your online social time is spent on a Science Olympiad forum.

...you actually find the Critical Reading passages the College Board comes up with interesting.

...your Firefox skin is basically a bunch of CG neurons.

...you know all of the steps of the Sliding Filament Model, and can practically name them in your sleep.

...you own at least 5 nerd/geek t-shirts. (My mom made me stop buying them! )

...you enjoy dissections.

...you actually know what a gluon is.

...you read epidemiology texts for fun.

...none of your friends want to play Pictionary if it falls on the science category because they know your nerdy knowledge of the subject is unfathomable... (kidding)

...you spend most of your free time on Scioly.org

...you beg your mom to let you start a robotics team.

...your main Christmas present is the book Frankenstein. *blushes*

...you read Brave New World and 1984 for fun.

...one of your favorite books is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

...you are working on a sci-fi novel.

...when the major quality you look for in friends is INTEREST IN SCIENCE!!!

[TheGenius]

...when you actually spend the time to compose 31 different endings for the sentence, "You know you're a nerd when..."

[aubrey048]

...when you actually spend the time to compose 31 different endings for the sentence, "You know you're a nerd when..."

...when you actually spent the time to count them.

Hahaha.

[Littleboy]

When you spend the time too double check TheGenius' counting skills

[kjhsscioly]

... when you comment on someone commenting on someone's comments...

[kjhsscioly]

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)


81. Can you name more than ten Star Trek episodes?

Lol... make that over 100... or 200

[TheGenius]

When you spend the time too double check TheGenius' counting skills

It should be to.

... you correct the grammer in a comment that comments on a comment commenting a comment that comments a comment. (I think that is the right number of comments)

[mingtian]

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.

I feel so sad. I only scored 3. 9, 23, and 50

[kjhsscioly]

wait, didn't you do 1 just to post?