You Know You're A Nerd When...

[49ers]

when in the middle of cross country practice, you and another science olympiad member go into a huge arguement over whether or not pluto should classified a planet

[TheBookworm]

when you can't wait for school to end just so that you can go home and study more.
when you freak out when your math teacher makes a mistake
when you find school interesting
when you jump up and down in excitement when you find out that the forestry guide you want to buy is on sale...and then order it immediately
when you pre-order a book that isn't coming out for another two years

[TheBookworm]

When you are upset that the algebra 1 textbook that you are using has mistakes in it, a bar graph with intervals (a histogram should have been used) and saying that no number can be divided by 0 ( is true for is true since division is the inverse of multiplication).

You can't divide zero by zero.

the difficult thing with this is that we all believe x/x=1 and 0/x=0 and x/0= undefined so we have three rule that contradict each other.

you mean if x>0

[MasterPuffy]

when you spent every waking second of spring break studying for states

when every waking second lasted until midnight every night

[LoopQuantumGravity]

You explain to your health teacher exactly why the textbook ignores Koch's Postulates.
You claim that the meaning of life is multivariable calculus.
(Actually, I have done both of these)

[49ers]

when the last week of school before states is spent skipping classes with lame excuses that my teachers believe, doing practice tests in pre-calc and chem, and in world studies II you read over your cheat sheets. Then you proceed to spend your nights studying further and organizing your binder. yeah thats me. and dismissal is considered a brief interruption in your cram sessions.

[aim4me26]

When you start to write an autobiography on 'The Life of a Nerd' because someone asks you what it's like.

[49ers]

When your life has become a continual pattern of study for a competition, eat, study some more, go to sleep, wake up, study, shower, eat, study, go to school, study, go to track, run, study, go home, study, repeat.

[Gearbox]

When someone says the word "red" and you automatically think of a red blood cell

When you divide by zero to see what happens

When you think about how Jonas Salk came up with the polio vaccine

[3nv1r0nm3ntal ch3m]

1.When you know the technical name for the perimeter of a circle

2.When you're eligible for sports

3.When you do you're homework before class

4.When you place in the top 30 at Nats

5.When you know how to use programs on a calculator

6.When you can name the brand of your calculator off the top of your head

7.When you think cheering is a sport

8.When you pi to 12 digits off the top of your head (3.1415926535:"." is a digit!)

9.When you know the name for the number under that little line in a fraction

10.When you know that [...] after a number a decimal means its irrational

11.When you own a scientific calculator

12.When you know the square root of negative 1

13.When you know the sum of two negatives is negative, yet the product is positive—and you understand why

14.When you google things on wikipedia for fun

15.When it' been year since you used the wrong form of "their", "there", or "they're"

16.When you get at least a 3 on the AP exam

17.When you take more than 1 AP class

19.When the first thing the number 4 makes you think of is √16

20.When you call someone a nerd then realize you are one too.

21.When you notice that number 18 is missing on this list

22.When you get into arguments about the differences between rhombuses and squares

23.When you understand castling in chess

24.When you know that the m in mx+b is the slope

25.And that the b is the y-intercept

26.When you try to get high off the cocaine in Grand Theft Auto

27.When you are up past 9:30 studying or doing homework

28.When you use a dictionary to look up words

29.When you can solve the equation x+3=6 in under x seconds