Why nerds are unpopular

Balog · #1 06-04-2011, 09:42 AM

An older essay that is, in the end, about secondary education in modern Western civilization. While I don't completely agree with his points, I think it holds a significant number of truths.

Why Nerds are Unpopular

JimB52 · #2 06-04-2011, 10:08 AM

Nerds!

Sardine · #3 06-04-2011, 12:42 PM

Good essay, thank's for posting. Hopefully some of our younger members will read this and take it to heart a bit.

Selta · #4 06-04-2011, 12:47 PM

I never understood why being unpopular is presented as a "problem" all the time.

Fassa Albrecht · #5 06-04-2011, 02:12 PM

I was considered to be one of my school's nerds. Didn't bother me one bit.

fdeck · #6 06-04-2011, 02:28 PM

I didn't have any problem with not being the most popular kid in class. I think the problem is when kids start abusing one another.

Fassa Albrecht · #7 06-04-2011, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by fdeck

I didn't have any problem with not being the most popular kid in class. I think the problem is when kids start abusing one another.

And that's when the problems start. Kids can be INCREDIBLY cruel to each other and sometimes they can underestimate the power of a few names called or a slap to someone can actually do.

ADbassman · #8 06-04-2011, 03:15 PM

I had a grand olde time in high school because I largely disregarded that popularity crap. It just never came up in my school.

Fassa Albrecht · #9 06-04-2011, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ADbassman

I had a grand olde time in high school because I largely disregarded that popularity crap. It just never came up in my school.

I wish it had been the same thing in my school. My school was very much divided on a scale of popularity, and I was right at the bottom. As a result, I was heavily bullied.

Selta · #10 06-04-2011, 03:26 PM

Eh, my high school was alllll about the jocks too (we were primarily a football high school). If you weren't on the football team or cheerleading, you were nothing. If you weren't on either one and deemed a nerd, you were definitely picked on and bullied. However, us nerds were the ones who ended up so far with good careers and lives post-high school. Not so much for the jocks. I was bullied, but I just shrugged it off.

jp58 · #11 06-04-2011, 03:27 PM

By our senior year in HS, all of the clicks had dissolved save a few. And we were much better off with them not being a part of the majority population. Sure football players stuck together, and so did the bandies, but we were, for the most part, a solidified class.

**nutdog** · #12 06-04-2011, 03:34 PM

No one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.

**jmattbassplaya** · #13 06-04-2011, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by nutdog

No one's gonna really be free until nerd persecution ends.

Dude, you went to Georgia Tech. You were asking for it!

tastybasslines · #14 06-04-2011, 04:00 PM

In today's society, nerds are popular. They make cash which ='s $ which ='s chicks.

Go nerd or go home.

i_got_a_mohawk · #15 06-04-2011, 04:28 PM

Venn Diagram time again

madmatt · #16 06-04-2011, 04:47 PM

They are unpopular because they are nerds.

Mike M. · #17 06-04-2011, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by tastybasslines

In today's society, nerds are popular. They make cash which ='s $ which ='s chicks.

Go nerd or go home.

Yep.

"But I love you money...er, I mean, honey"

Stilettoprefer · #18 06-04-2011, 09:08 PM

I'm a junior in high school, and my school seems to be pretty odd.. We don't really have cliques. Sure, the band kids hang out together, the stoners hang out together and the atheletes hang out together, but all of those groups are entertwined with each other. I'm a total band kid (hang out in the band room with whoever is in there at the time, when I have spare time at school), but I am friends with a lot of 'skaters/ BMXers', 'stoners', nerds' and a large amount of the athletic crowd (and pretty much any other stereotype we might give people) as well. A lot of people in my school are this way.

Btw, bullying is not a big problem at my school either.

tom once dead · #19 06-04-2011, 10:38 PM

I was my own 'group' in my grade up until my senior year. I hung out with the grade above me since the first week of high school. I never got bullied, was smart, musical, althetic (when I needed to be) and pretty well liked in general. As far as 'popularity zones' went I would go and hang out in any one I wanted whenever I wanted. Looking like a badass and being good at everything helped a lot.

**jmattbassplaya** · #20 06-05-2011, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Stilettoprefer

I'm a junior in high school, and my school seems to be pretty odd.. We don't really have cliques. Sure, the band kids hang out together, the stoners hang out together and the atheletes hang out together, but all of those groups are entertwined with each other. I'm a total band kid (hang out in the band room with whoever is in there at the time, when I have spare time at school), but I am friends with a lot of 'skaters/ BMXers', 'stoners', nerds' and a large amount of the athletic crowd (and pretty much any other stereotype we might give people) as well. A lot of people in my school are this way.

Btw, bullying is not a big problem at my school either.

I think this is the trend with most schools these days. My school was exactly like yours. I was a 'band kid', but I also did competitive and amateur soccer, I played in a garage band that gigged at actual venues, and I skateboarded. There really wasn't any clique I wasn't a part of; but at the same time, there really weren't any cliques to begin with. Even in a class with over 500 kids, we all partied together, hung out together, studied together, etc... High school was actually a great experience for me.