You Know You're A Nerd When...

[Insert Name Here]

when you take a test. Tell your friends you probably failed the test because you didn't study at all. Get the test back and see you got a 110% when there wasn't any extra credit.

[Schrodingerscat]

...when you have watched hours of videos on Calculus out of pure interest on own time
...When your idea of fun is to read wikipedia or google questions it cannot answer.
...when you look at the things on your computer desk and see several pieces of scratch paper covered with physics equations that are not school or Science Olympiad related.
...when your idea of fun on a Saturday afternoon is take a nuclear reactor from cold shutdown to full operating power in a very realistic computer simulation.

[Katherine]

...you start throwing tantrums in response to imperfect test scores.

[penelope]

Liking a Facebook page that says "Nerds will eventually rule the world". And as a matter of fact, I almost did cry when I left Regionals without a medal last year.

[penelope]

When all your friends tell you that if you were a real friend, you would miss SO practice and go to their party.
But you go to SO practice anyway.

You know, I would think that your friends would understand that you made a commitment to your team to be there on practice day.
Sorry guys, didn't mean to double post, but I don't know how to double quote.
Wow, and here I was thinking I was a nerd. The Venn diagram for nerds says I am, although I'm moving closer to "geek".

[aubrey048]

Liking a Facebook page that says "Nerds will eventually rule the world". And as a matter of fact, I almost did cry when I left Regionals without a medal last year.

I did cry when I left regionals sans medals. I STUDIED RIDICULOUSLY HARD, OKAY!?!?

[kjhsscioly]

Hey, I got close to tears when I left state without a gold last year . I guess I took it hard, since I only medaled third in one event, but I wasn't used to the competitiveness of div. C. I was expecting three, like I got in div. B, but the playing field is so different.

[aubrey048]

Hey, I got close to tears when I left state without a gold last year . I guess I took it hard, since I only medaled third in one event, but I wasn't used to the competitiveness of div. C. I was expecting three, like I got in div. B, but the playing field is so different.

Haha I know. I wasn't expecting multiple medals per say, but I studied really hard and knew the information REALLY REALLY WELL. I was mad when the test threw me a loop. Now, next year I will go into hiding if I don't get a gold medal in SOMETHING. THE DROUGHT HAS LASTED FOR TOO LONG ALREADY! >_<
I almost cried at the awards ceremony in front of all of my friends (yes literally all of them). I put in so much blood, toil, tears and sweat into SO! Too much to leave empty-handed! *sob*


You know you're a nerd when you write a newspaper article about SO. Which I'm doing as we speak.

[Schrodingerscat]

You know you are a nerd when you download 20 hours of calculus lecture videos from khan academy to watch for fun.

[whadk]

This is like the most common thing,,,:

You know you're a nerd when you cry about getting even half a point off a test (even if it's out of like what, 4000 points?)