were any of you guys considered nerds in high school?

[acidrock]

hey were any of you guys considered nerds in high school? I was one of the biggest geeks at my school, it's funny now that I think about it, people actually thought i was smart!

[jefhatfield]

i was a nerd but not a genius..but my nickname was einstein

and by hs, i was no longer a nerd but more normal and balanced

[LethalWolfe]

Nerd? No. I was more the long-haired goth/heavy metal guy that no one really talked to 'cause they were afriad I'd steal their soul or something.


Lethal

[King Cobra]

Maybe a few people called me that, but I didn't care to notice because at that time I was quite anti-social.

[RBMaraman]

My group of friends and I were the "cool" people. I was pretty involved in high school, and popularity came as a result.

Oh, you nerds suck! :D :) Why don't you go watch some "Star Trek" reruns you nerds! :D Popular people rule! (Because we all know the class system from high school applies to adult life.)

[musicpyrite]

Considering I'm in my first year in high school, I am considered a big nerd, but not a book smart one. I can name every character in Star Wars, can name every part of a computer (chipset, V RAM, ect.) and, well, just check my profile to see my other hobbies. ;)

[macka]

Nah, people just thought I was annoying. ;)

[PlaceofDis]

yepp, i was that kid that everyone aksed for answers but was jerk enough not to always give it to em but yeah i was considered book smart in some subjects plus geeky because of my computer knowledge...blah im glad that im still a english nerd and a computer geek

[jefhatfield]

My group of friends and I were the "cool" people. I was pretty involved in high school, and popularity came as a result.

Oh, you nerds suck! :D :) Why don't you go watch some "Star Trek" reruns you nerds! :D Popular people rule! (Because we all know the class system from high school applies to adult life.)

here's what i saw from my schooling...68-82...or something like that ;)

the nerds did not get the dates or go to the parties (and be "cool" and drink and do drugs) and the nerds did spend more time studying and were the "losers", but the extra studying (which led to lost date/party opportunities) usually led to college and better jobs after graduation

now at 40, i see who are the ones with the better cars, houses, prettier wives, etc..and they are the ones who were the nerds

it's just all when people "peak" in life...grade school/high school or later adult life...we are all stars at one time in life or another...fifteen minutes of fame if you will ;)

but i have seen some nerds get the grades, go to college, get the house and porsche, etc etc etc and take up hard core hedonistic partying and basically hurt themselves...and it's not pretty to see a 35 year old nerd turned yuppie acting like a 17 year old and hitting on 21 year old girls in clubs

[iJon]

people dont call me a nerd. im in the popular group but people know me very well for my knowledge in computers. everyone at school loves my website and gets much attention, they know im on the newspaper staff as a tech, they know im an apple salesman, they have seen the fun movies ive made in imovie. but i dont get called a nerd, not even a geek. they just know what im capable of i guess.

iJon

[raynegus]

I was what the ladies classified as a fine stud. Built for breeding. The finest hotties waited on me hand and foot. When I gave the order they took it willingly. I was hardly a nerd. Why the hell do you think I use a Mac? Geeks use PCs. Look at Bill.

[eyelikeart]

I was a nobody in high school really. People knew who I was, but I didn't really follow any particular crowd. I was friends with all different people in different groups.

[agreenster]

I was the basketball player who got an A+ in AP Calc... Strange combination...

[7on]

I was cool.

[Krizoitz]

I fell into a kind of limbo. Growing up I had a couple friends who ended up being in the popular crowd, and while I wasn't really part of their group I was accepted as ok. I took the AP classes and was into computers, but I also did sports, so I wasn't a jock or a nerd. Mostly I associated with my friends from band, but even then I wasn't a true band geek. It was nice sometimes not being pegged into one group or another, but sometimes it was a little lonely not being a major part of one group.

[Counterfit]

Hmm, not quite sure where I fell in there. Although, my school was somewhat free of that, with only 180 or so people in my graduating class. If I had to apply the stereotypical cliques, I would say I hung around both with the nerds and the stoners. But I never really was 100% in either one...

[acidrock]

as you moved through high school did any of your peers seem to change their attitudes towards you? As I came into my senior year it was really strange, everyone all of a suddent started to well kinda respect me, though I wouldn't totally call it that. When it was prom the talk of the high school was who I was taking, but I have no idea how that got started.

Have any of you gone back to high school reunions? I found out there was one for my class a few years ago but I couldn't go, because I didn't know about it, and Evergreen is on the quarter system, so I was still in school. Though I'm not sure I would want to, and I think only a few people actually from my class attended. -n

[blue&whiteman]

I was a hippie then. wasn't a nerd or uncool but wasn't seen as cool either. no one ever bothered me or my friends. I made close friends with my home ec teacher. we still talk. she is a total hippie also :)

[beethovengirl]

yup, I was a dork [but I didn't and don't watch Star Trek, Star Wars, or LotR].

I admittedly have some desire to go back to my high school reunion lookin' hot. ;)

Not that I am, but I've gained weight since high school, which is a good thing, since I have a double-digit weight.

[Apple //e]

hey were any of you guys considered nerds in high school? I was one of the biggest geeks at my school, it's funny now that I think about it, people actually thought i was smart!

of course not, i was president of the chess club.

[eyeon]

Ha! Now that I think of it, I WAS last-picked for almost every sport. I wasn't a nerd because I played in a rock band, so I had at least a couple coolness points. But I was last-picked pretty much every time. Does that count?

[virividox]

i was friends with almost every group. so it doesnt make me any of them.

[Mr. Anderson]

I was a nerd, there's no doubt. The only thing is, I didn't really think of myself as one and in terms of how much of one - there were many more kids who were nerdier than me.

D

[Nermal]

Maybe a few people called me that, but I didn't care to notice because at that time I was quite anti-social.

Yeah, same here. These days, I'm not as social as some people, but I'm nowhere as bad as I was.

[MongoTheGeek]

I was a nerd, but I went to a magnet school so 1/4 th of the school was nerds. I also had 2 inches and 25 pounds on anyone on the football team so if push came to shove I could stuff them in the lockers.

MBHS if anyone cares. If you can't figure out the school look at westinghouse winners... :D

[MongoTheGeek]

I was a nerd, but I went to a magnet school so 1/4 th of the school was nerds. I also had 2 inches and 25 pounds on anyone on the football team so if push came to shove I could stuff them in the lockers.

MBHS if anyone cares. If you can't figure out the school look at westinghouse winners... :D

oops. Its Intel now and only 1 in the top 10. Between us and Bronx Science we owned that. :(

[Mokona]

I went from normal, balanced IT-guy to... well... I spent a year in Montana between my junior and senior year of HS... That can screw anyone up. Came back and was convinced the rest of the world was as evil as Montana, went to become "the hippie guy with orange hair and tie-dyed t-shirt" to "scary goth guy with a dog collar" in a year. Now I think of myself as pretty balanced, even though senior year of HS was a roller coaster. (graduated in '99). Now I might be one of those "turtle-neck" business guys. (more of the "philosophical" buisness sciences)

[scem0]

I consider myself a nerd, but no one else does, except for a few of my friends.

Most people don't even think I like computers at all.

scem0

[mactastic]

Oh I probably made a few people's nerd list, but I had enough friends from sports and stuff in the popular crowd that I still got invited to parties and stuff. Senior year changed a lot though. I really came out of my self-imposed shell that year!

[Counterfit]

Ha! Now that I think of it, I WAS last-picked for almost every sport. I wasn't a nerd because I played in a rock band, so I had at least a couple coolness points. But I was last-picked pretty much every time. Does that count? Hmm, I wasn't usually picked last, but it depends on what sport we played. Football I was usually in the middle, but soccer I was near the end, even though I could shut down anyone on offense on my side of the field. Baseball I was near the end, I couldn't hit for **** anyway (still can't), and my throwing has been getting crappier and crappier.

[Mav451]

Was I a nerd? Probably less of a nerd, more of a gamer. There were tons of guys who played SC in my school.

Jocks, geeks, those in between it all (I'm probably here), booksmart guys, shy guys, some girls.

The funniest part is when this guy on the football team keeps on saying zealot wrong in US History, and my friend keeps on correcting him.

"Zeeelot or zelit?"

Haha. I was also in band, so I guess I also knew people in the band nerd crowd. I'd say, like many others, that I kind of knew "too many people/groups". I think I might have been happier staying in just one, rather than being a jack-of-all-trades. I guess that's what happens in high school. People change (like people's hairstyles).

I think anyone can agree that they tried a hair style in high school, and regretted it a week later hahah :)

[poopyhead]

I started out as a really popular skater
I had good friends in all the major cliques (except band and chorus, they were my brothers people)
at the end of my sophomore year, beginning of my junior year I made the full transition to stoner skater, subtly changing to a dead head as I took more art classes my senior year.
I took all the AP and APP classes I could and loaded up on science courses, I was considered one of the smartest in my class but I made it a point not to cross over to overt nerdiness (I was proud of my "c" average)

[Grimace]

I think everyone is a nerd in some way - try looking at college major. You could have been the coolest kid on campus, but I bet you knew more than most any sane person on your major subject area!

I was a big jock in high school. It was big enough that people didn't really care who was who. Everyone had their own little circles of friends. The last time I saw cool & uncool divided was middle school :eek:

[rueyeet]

hey were any of you guys considered nerds in high school?Ha! Now, in college, in high school, in junior high, in elementary...heck, they probably would have called me a nerd in kindegarten and nursery school if they'd understood what the term meant. :rolleyes: My interests do tend in the stereotypically nerdy directions, but mostly I'm just asocial. That, and I wore black before it was goth (and in a time and place when it most definitely wasn't cool).

I'm more social now, both because I grew up a lot in college, and because I'm probably overcompensating for a lonely youth. :p

[eyelikeart]

Have any of you gone back to high school reunions? I found out there was one for my class a few years ago but I couldn't go, because I didn't know about it, and Evergreen is on the quarter system, so I was still in school. Though I'm not sure I would want to, and I think only a few people actually from my class attended. -n

I've got my 10 year reunion coming up next year, and I'm pretty interested to see where people ended up. I honestly didn't like a lot of the people in my graduating class, but it'll still be good to see how people are doing & what they are doing now.

I'm also damned curious to see who went bald. :eek: :D

[jeremy.king]

I was a pretty well rounded kid in high school. Athletic and "Nerdy", I was a mathlete!

Captained
Soccer, lettered 3 years
Tennis, letterd 4
Math League
Science Olympiad, MN State Champions 1995 and participated in Nationals at Indiana U.

Took AP Calc and AP English. Scored 5 on my AP exam in Calc. Didn't take English.

Wow I really was a nerd, but I don't think I let that bother my social life.

What the hell happened to me!!!! :eek:

[beethovengirl]

MBHS if anyone cares. If you can't figure out the school look at westinghouse winners... :D

Ha ha, I know your Westinghouse winner.
;)

[wdlove]

I wasn't a nerd. We had those that were very smart and popular. It was before the computer. I was popular because of my height in high school. Everyone knew me because of my height.

[aricher]

I was a skate-punk, photo, early computer programming geek in HS. Couldn't wait to get out. Every once in awhile I hear people say "I wish I was 17 again." No way - life in the "real world," is rewarding and age brings with it a certain perspective you just didn't have in HS.

Nerds unite - go to ITMS and buy:

Song Name: Nerdball
Album: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Artist: Kid Koala

Master of scratching cutting up a Revenge of the Nerds sample!

[g30ffr3y]

i wasnt a nerd in high school...
didnt really even get into computers until the end of high school...
and even then it was for music...

i did dress in black and so forth as some
of the other posters have admitted... but
no one was ever afraid of me...

i took AP classes and had a gf through most
of the ordeal that was high school...

wish i had an ipod back then...

[Doctor Q]

I've always been a nerd, and I don't mind that at all. I enjoy math, computers, serious science and science fiction, computers, and geeky interests like those. Did I mention computers? Being in the high school band automatically established my social group, the musicians, who tended to be mostly the good students too. Being president of the computer class didn't affect my social standing one way or another.

[vouder17]

Well i Started off HS being quite the nerd, and for that i was brought down, but i decided to change and tried my hardest to atleast be accepted, now i am popular, I DJ, and have a lot of popular friends, although i still have to work on the girlfriend issue....

Dj VoTeZ

[acidrock]

Nerds unite - go to ITMS and buy:

Song Name: Nerdball
Album: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Artist: Kid Koala

Master of scratching cutting up a Revenge of the Nerds sample!

LMFAO!!!

[jefhatfield]

I think everyone is a nerd in some way - try looking at college major. You could have been the coolest kid on campus, but I bet you knew more than most any sane person on your major subject area!

I was a big jock in high school. It was big enough that people didn't really care who was who. Everyone had their own little circles of friends. The last time I saw cool & uncool divided was middle school :eek:

unfortunaltely, my hs was split very much into cool and uncool groups...it was the '70s so the cool kids did coke and pot, had sex, and at the very least were binge drinkers

it's kind of sad because a lot of those so called "party" kids really did damage to themselves during and after high school...by the end of college, and certainly by one's late 20s, it becomes obvious that casual drug use and sex is not the way to go in life and there is nothing "cool" about self destruction

[MrMacMan]

I was a nobody in high school really. People knew who I was, but I didn't really follow any particular crowd. I was friends with all different people in different groups.
Are there more of you?

Really, can we like clone you and put you in every school?

:D


Anyway I'm in the highschool system right now.

I'm no where near popular, but it doesn't bother me too much (besides for all of the *******s, they are... well -- *******s)...


So yeah, I'm a geek, no one makes fun of me because I have this rage problem... yeah I bottle stuff in and by the end of the day I feel about ready to beat someone up, but I guess thats too personal info.


So I have a good, close group of friends who are nice and respectable and have a decent sense of humor.


I like them, SciFi fans, Gamers, Political Nerds, all that stuff.


Great Great Group of friends.

[bousozoku]

Being a nerd would have been a step up. I was an outcast, mostly. A lot of people knew me, but most wouldn't really admit to it, outside of school.

I was the president of the Latin club one year. I helped the science instructors a lot. Everyone who knew me thought that I would be a concert pianist or an interpreter. No one would have dreamed that I would have worked with computers at all. Besides, in high school, we only had one desktop computer--a brand new Commodore P.E.T. :)

[powerbook4me]

i wasn't a nerd, but close to it.

Class clown I guess was my title, hehe.

[eyeon]

I went from normal, balanced IT-guy to... well... I spent a year in Montana between my junior and senior year of HS... That can screw anyone up. Came back and was convinced the rest of the world was as evil as Montana, went to become "the hippie guy with orange hair and tie-dyed t-shirt" to "scary goth guy with a dog collar" in a year. Now I think of myself as pretty balanced, even though senior year of HS was a roller coaster. (graduated in '99). Now I might be one of those "turtle-neck" business guys. (more of the "philosophical" buisness sciences)

HAHA!!! I've lived in Montana my whole life, and also graduated in '99... which city did you live in?

[eyelikeart]

Are there more of you?

Really, can we like clone you and put you in every school?

:D

Sure, u could try. I've already been cloned around here though. :eek :D

But yeah, I was actually known to be one of the art students though...go figure. ;)

[Mokona]

HAHA!!! I've lived in Montana my whole life, and also graduated in '99... which city did you live in?

In Montana I was in the class of '98 of Sweet Grass County, Big Timber, MT.
Speech'n'drama, choir and solo singing guy...

[rueyeet]

Being a nerd would have been a step up.Yeah, that's more the way to put it. You know the one kid in every school who everyone just thinks is wierd for some reason and stays away from? Who even the nerds won't touch with a ten-foot pole? That was me.

Part of that growing up bit I mentioned had to do with recognizing that this was a product of the way I process non-verbal cues (i.e., that I don't, or at least not very well, which hinders a lot of "normal" interaction) rather than because the world is evil and close-minded and everyone hates me. It was a very helpful thing to realize. :)

I gotcher too much information right here, Mr. Macman..... :D

[themadchemist]

I was considered a HUGE nerd and very intelligent. I'm still considered a HUGE nerd.

I don't know how intelligent people think I am now. Fairly, maybe?

[acidrock]

I was considered a HUGE nerd and very intelligent. I'm still considered a HUGE nerd.

I don't know how intelligent people think I am now. Fairly, maybe?

we can tell a lot just from your screen name j/k!!!

[Les Kern]

i was a nerd but not a genius..but my nickname was einstein

Mine was "brain", but....
There were no nerds because there were no computers. One guy's dad had a 4-function calculator that cost 400 bucks though, and I used a (gasp) slide rule. Back in my day there were the "jocks" and the "heads" and everyone who wasn't in either group was basically a nothing. I was a "nothing".

[bousozoku]

Yeah, that's more the way to put it. You know the one kid in every school who everyone just thinks is wierd for some reason and stays away from? Who even the nerds won't touch with a ten-foot pole? That was me.

Part of that growing up bit I mentioned had to do with recognizing that this was a product of the way I process non-verbal cues (i.e., that I don't, or at least not very well, which hinders a lot of "normal" interaction) rather than because the world is evil and close-minded and everyone hates me. It was a very helpful thing to realize. :)

I gotcher too much information right here, Mr. Macman..... :D

Sorry to see that someone else identifies with that. In a few hundred years, the majority of people will grow up. ;)

[MrMacMan]

Sure, u could try. I've already been cloned around here though. :eek: :D

But yeah, I was actually known to be one of the art students though...go figure. ;)
Well the way I figure it is that anyone who has transcended above all of thr classes is a god amongst gods. :cool:




Yeah some people can give out more personal info then me, some less, I don't care about it really. I would post my address, phone number and name here, but Google would find it and post it easily in a web search. :rolleyes: :(

[themadchemist]

we can tell a lot just from your screen name j/k!!!

well, I should hope so! Geek chic, my friend, geek chic.

[jefhatfield]

Mine was "brain", but....
There were no nerds because there were no computers. One guy's dad had a 4-function calculator that cost 400 bucks though, and I used a (gasp) slide rule. Back in my day there were the "jocks" and the "heads" and everyone who wasn't in either group was basically a nothing. I was a "nothing".

when i was a nerd starting in '72 when i started surpassing most of the other students, i was called a nerd due to doing well in school...we didn't see computers come into play in our school system until 1980 and the attachment of computers and nerds didn't come along for a few more years

by the time the two terms became synonymous, the mac and pc had really taken a foothold in society and the nerds flocked to them...i would say it was a decade more until the mainstream kids fooled with computers with no stigma attached to them

today i can't see anybody being called a nerd because they love computers...to be a real nerd today in school, a kid would have to identify with something else like band, drama, sci fi, etc

the computer is a common tool like a telephone as it should be...and jocks don't feel the need to stuff someone into a locker because they like to talk about commodore 64s and zr80s...man those pioneers of computers and nerd-dom really risked their necks in those days...today those mean jocks all have computers and some of them may be forced to sit in front of one eight hours a day ;)