"Why Nerds Are Unpopular"

[FoolKiller]

Ahhh.. Well I'm not an American

We play rugby here... similar to American Football except we dont wear armour and padding.

Honestly, a sport where players tape their ears down so they don't get torn off should probably have some sort of head gear.

I have heard the argument that American football has pads because there are full-body hits with a running start, thus much more force behind them, and no pads can easily result in ruptured organs and broken bones.

Rugby, on the other hand, doesn't have full-body hits with a lot of force behind them, but the players are allowed to get away with a lot more violent acts, such as punching.

I've watched both in person and rugby is less about tackling, where as American football is more about slamming into each other without grabbing, punching, etc. While the purpose is the same the actions within the game are very different when analyzed up close.

EDIT: That was completely off-topic but I wanted to try to explain the differences in the two.

 

[Master_Yoda]

Because they use that word a lot (just look at the Wiktionary definition). Half of my suitemates are from northern California, and I simply can’t escape from that word…

I'm from NorCal... And it's true. Hella is waaaaaaaay over used here. Alot of people say "thats hella gay..." or "that test was hella hard" or " damn that chick is hella hot" so on... The word dude is mixed with that. Those things are just mixed into you're vocabulary.. You go up to a friend in school... "Hey dude whats up" "Nothing much.... just hella bored" You get the picture...


Ok on topic... I've always found my self in between everything. I have friends that are rich.. I have friends that are "nerds".. I have friends that are gamers (most of them ).... I have friends that are popular. I've had foregin friends. And I find those the best to talk with. Cause their always so interested in what you say...

 

[Omnis]

Honestly, a sport where players tape their ears down so they don't get torn off should probably have some sort of head gear.

I have heard the argument that American football has pads because there are full-body hits with a running start, thus much more force behind them, and no pads can easily result in ruptured organs and broken bones.

Rugby, on the other hand, doesn't have full-body hits with a lot of force behind them, but the players are allowed to get away with a lot more violent acts, such as punching.

I've watched both in person and rugby is less about tackling, where as American football is more about slamming into each other without grabbing, punching, etc. While the purpose is the same the actions within the game are very different when analyzed up close.

EDIT: That was completely off-topic but I wanted to try to explain the differences in the two.

Umm... Football is about scoring touchdowns. The reason they wear pads is because the game is so fast, you almost never expect to get hit, and when you get hit, you get totally jacked up.

 

[Blake]

My group in high school was weird. I was a nerd, and it was basically a couple of nerds handing out with people who were nerds/goths and brought knives to school. And then there was Libby, who somehow fit into the group but I’m not sure how or why.

I was well liked by everyone, but I wouldn’t call myself popular. I was the kid who seemed shy from a distance, but my friends would call me anything but…

 

[Gen.]

Umm... Football is about scoring touchdowns. The reason they wear pads is because the game is so fast, you almost never expect to get hit, and when you get hit, you get totally jacked up.

What and you think Rugby isn't fast?

You have to get the ball to touch the ground as well in rugby

 

[Diego440]

I was well liked by everyone, but I wouldn’t call myself popular. I was the kid who seemed shy from a distance, but my friends would call me anything but…

If I had to label my high school personality/experience, I would definitely call myself a ghost.

 

[Sage]

[…] with people who were nerds/goths and brought knives to school.

Uh, what? Isn’t that kind of, you know, against school rules and stuff?

 

[Blake]

In Australia it’s against the rules if you come to school and you’re not packing.

 

[Gen.]

You call that a knife?

THIS is a knife.

etc etc.

 

[Blake]

Exactly.

If you’re wondering, I didn’t go to some public school in Sydney, I went to a Catholic School on the Central Coast.

 

[Philly]

Anyway, call me Switzerland.

I really don't have enemies, although there are people who I know that I don't have relations with at all, and there are kids I never met. Neither do I have any really close friends. My lack of social skills can makes good friendships come up but then kinda waste away. Those people I usually end up just talking to casually, but no real huge connection. (they talk about burning bridges, I let mine rot.) There are a lot of people who I will not go out of my way to talk to, just a "Yo! Wassup?" in the halls, or those I talk to in class. I have no problem being alone unless I really think about it, then its quite depressing.

I also have this theory (my brain was firing with all kinds of ideas while reading that article.). I've held it for a while. While it is pretty much universally accepted that communism failed on the national scale, I belive that communism is very common is groups that have either no gov't or an artificial one. Because the admins @ school do very little to structure the kids, school becomes a commune. The real world is what is outside of our soviet union, where capitalism decides what happens. However, I feel the communal system does work in these groups. But, when the popular kids try to take over, the system fails and it becomes hell for everybody but the "cool" kids. They face it as a struggle. I'm sure somebody here can elaborate on what I'm trying to say.

Now to try to weasel my way back into my groups of friends, and maybe enter a new group or two. Just in time for sr. year of HS.

Oh yeah. HS society does not end at HS graduation. Party schools bring it further. Look at places like USC, WSU and probably a few others. The popular, rich partiers often go to this school. Look at any school not nown for academics. It is probably just a "HS college." (I'm sorry if I have criticized your school ect. I'm just trying to make a point.)

 

[TopHat]

Hello, and welcome to the Robert Frost Middle School Social Hierarchy!

This was all concocted by me and my friends during recess, and is what a collective group of people think of the school rankings.

The system is color based.

Green- The 1st string starters/cheerleaders, most popular

Blue - The rich kids and their parasitic friends.

Yellow - The mid-class kids, usually mildly smart kids.

Orange - Anyone with a lack of social confidence. These are my friends. Usually are nice kids here. ( heres me! )

Red - The trouble makers. They are NOT popular, they are considered an under class to the popular kids.

Maroon - Mildly retarded/ stupid kids

Brown - The rats who tell on you when you have a candy bar in math class. The teachers pets. Not necessarily smart, but have a nasty attitude towards others.

Black - The ones who don't eat lunch, or are very VERY bad smelling.

 

[Bram Turismo]

Well, it's an interesting essay. To be honest, I'm a kind of nerd as well.

(The following info comes from the time I went to school in Belgium)

The first three years at high-school, I was the higher and "smarter" class of that year and therefor, I enjoyed those three years but from the fourth year, I came into a different class with different people. Those people were more "hard", they seemed to care more about popularity then grades and the direction they were going towards their future. Everytime I had almost maximum on a serious test, they asked me how I got, and when I got a very good score, one guy used to give me a punch. Off course, as I'm only 17 and I weigh 90 kg, I don't care when he punches me 'cus it doen't hurt and he realised as well when I'd freak out, I would kick his sorry little ass! But anyway, here in Norway, people are much different.

These people care more about sosial status and capabilities, as long as you keep them talking, you're in the group. And wether they call you nerd or not, they sometimes even congratulate you

If we'd had a color system as well as Matthe Tuner, I would, as well, be found in the Orange system. Simply because I've had some bad experiences before.


So, conclusion, it just depends on how the environment in school on your popularity IMO...

 

[Thiele]

some people call me a nerd at school because i keep getting good test results, but exams are coming up soon.......

 

[LewyMan]

Every now and then, I still give my high school the finger as I drive by.

Good one 👍

Well, I've recently graduated from high school (yay), and I'm rather scared, excited and sad. Scared, because of not knowing any life outside of school. Excited, because of the countless opportunites and experiences ahead of me. And sad.

Sad because I will miss high school, I've read other people's posts in this thread, saying they really miss high school.
I know I will miss the comedy shows that were my lunchtimes. I have (or had, nope, have ) the best bunch of mates.
From about mid Year 11 through to the end of school, I seriously doubt that there was a lunchtime where I did not laugh. Maybe 1 or 2 when most of my friends weren't at school.

Our group loosely changed here and there, but mainly consisted of me, Lachlan, Simon, Jarryn and Tim. We were (I think) considered to be kinda nerds because we were smart(ish).
But from about Year 10 onwards, we just didnt give a rats what people thought of us, or what our (general) social status was. Well, I know I didn't.

I guess our school wasn't too segregated, because we were a small school of about 570 odd kids (hehe, I can use that term since I ain't a kid no more )

I wasn't all that popular, I spose I was just a little weird. It's funny, everyone in the group had thier own weirdness about them. Jarryn had his long long hair, Simon was just generally weird (and funny and popular in a way), Lach was an unbelievably intelligent kid who seriously got straight A's but his sportiness and good looks made up for it, and I brought back the fad of hacky-sacking because I hacky-sacked at school non-stop.
It was awesome as.

Good times, gonna miss 'em.
Gotta move on though......

 

[Thiele]

i know how you feel, we're all growing up too quickly, i'll be in high school next year, but things will be tougher, less free time, i will really miss this yr7, it's been a great year but i am kind of excited because i will have a good time ahead of me aswell

but i go to an area school though, i an one of the 3 "nerds" in the class, and the dumbest nerd of all

also, final yr7 exams are on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday

 

[Casio]

You have exams in year 7, wow, you got shafted. I wouldn't even bother with them, as exams count for jack all until year 12. (Great advice from Casio...My kids have no chance )

The way the Australian system works you could fail every single grade for your whole school life except for the final year, and still go on to doing Rocket Science.

 

[MustangSVT]

Immediately after I had begun reading the article, I had to giggle just a bit, as in my last year of high-school ('04-'05) I did a similar "joke" map of the lunch room, and it was very scary once we had all realized that in the building in which we all thought that we were without cliques, it had remained a very segregated school in terms of who hung out with who, etc.

That's funny, me and my buddies (we were considered "nerds" i would guess) did a similar map, except not exactly the lunch room, but our grade as a whole. Football players and most popular kids at the top, the very weird goth kids who were unpopular. We were one of the "nerd" groups near the bottom, there was another "wannabe" group at the same level as us, we called them wannabes because I would hang out with them rarely instead of my own group, and then I would report back to my real group and the wannabe group was kind of crappy to hang out with. Anyway yea.. High school was fun even though I was part of the nerdy group, we all had a lot of fun through school. Your average consisted of us hanging out in the library making a lot of racket and sometimes getting kicked out usually chatting about some Xbox game or some other random thing.

 

[Thiele]

You have exams in year 7, wow, you got shafted. I wouldn't even bother with them, as exams count for jack all until year 12. (Great advice from Casio...My kids have no chance )

The way the Australian system works you could fail every single grade for your whole school life except for the final year, and still go on to doing Rocket Science.

We have to study hard still, that's why i haven't been as active lately, we start having exams in yr6

i'll only be 17 when i'm in yr12 lol

 

[Philly]

You have exams in year 7, wow, you got shafted. I wouldn't even bother with them, as exams count for jack all until year 12. (Great advice from Casio...My kids have no chance )

The way the Australian system works you could fail every single grade for your whole school life except for the final year, and still go on to doing Rocket Science.

I know a guy who did something like that. He'd either sleep or play calc games all day, not do the HW, figure everything out on tests and get a decent grade. For AP, a 4 or 5 got you an A. He did nothing all year, did good on the test and got A's from the classes. People say I'm smart, but then I look at this guy and try to work out how to be more like that.

How does you school system work, sounds much different than here in the US.

 

[Omnis]

I know a guy who did something like that. He'd either sleep or play calc games all day, not do the HW, figure everything out on tests and get a decent grade. For AP, a 4 or 5 got you an A. He did nothing all year, did good on the test and got A's from the classes. People say I'm smart, but then I look at this guy and try to work out how to be more like that.

How does you school system work, sounds much different than here in the US.

I wish classes were like that. Everything here is work work work. Screw work. It's not life-productive. Just teach and give the test in one shot; kthxbye.

Of course, it helps when you've got your entire claque of friends and parents helping you with stuff. The level of cheating at my school is amazing. The curriculum is not suited towards working alone, which is why I hate it so much. It sucks being gifted here.

 

[Sage]

Just keep in mind that everything changes in college. I’ve already had one “Oh 🤬” moment…

 

[Omnis]

Yeah, sorry about the blow-up. Being sick and dealing with makeup work for 7 classes plus homework is driving me bonkers. I can barely sleep. 4:07am or bust.

 

[Thiele]

I know a guy who did something like that. He'd either sleep or play calc games all day, not do the HW, figure everything out on tests and get a decent grade. For AP, a 4 or 5 got you an A. He did nothing all year, did good on the test and got A's from the classes. People say I'm smart, but then I look at this guy and try to work out how to be more like that.

How does you school system work, sounds much different than here in the US.

You can't get home taught here, i heard a lot of people (mainly from the UK, not sure if it's allowed in the US) say that they get home taught (G.T, Alpine, etc) it's illegal here, and i'm jealous i wish i could get home taught, i'm not really getting along with other kids, although i'm getting really good grades, i would love to have more time home. Do you guys have reception before grade 1? or just grade 1? we have reception, also, some people go to kindy the year before school, it's like school, probably just to get to know the other kids, although when we start school, some go to the area school (R-12) (like me) and some go to a private lutheran school (R-7, after grade 7, they come to the area school, so next year, we'll have a few new classmates) R means Reception. Also, our school is split into four groups, R-2 (junior primary school) 3-5 (primary school) 6-9 (middle school) and 10-12 (senior school) our school, in the centre of Yorke Peninsula, Maitland, is very large (about 300 kids) and there are people from Maitland, Port Victoria, Ardrossan, Authurton, Sandilands, Urania, and a few more, so we're a fairly large school.

Here is our school's website

 

[Casio]

300 kids is large....

My school had 1800 kids, and that's just years 7-12.

At least in my state, you get an ENTER score, which is ranking based against people in your state, the highest you can get is 99.9 something (In that no one got better marks then you). The score is derived only for the Assessments and Exams in a unit 3 and unit 4 subject. Which are your last two semesters of high school.

So like I said before, you can fail every single subject your entire school life, up until final year, and still theoretically get the highest possible score. You don't even have to get straight A's to get the highest possible score, you just need to be better then others, if everyone got a C and you got a C+, then that's the same as getting a perfect 100%, because it's done on student rankings.

 

[Poverty]

You can be a straight a-student and still be the most popular kid in school. Nerd and intelligence doesnt necessarily come binding together hand in hand.

 

[TopHat]

I'm now a nerd, I got high honor roll!

 

[Thiele]

i had my English exam about 1 hour ago, then i went home sick Maths exam tomorrow if i go to school

 

[Omnis]

300 kids is large....

My school had 1800 kids, and that's just years 7-12.

LOL! 300 kids...

My school has 2648 kids, 9-12. The two biggest (and best) in our district are about 5 thousand and 3 thousand strong.

 

[Gen.]

Yea well my school had 700 kids. Beat that.