Anonymous wrote:The geeks shall inherit the earth. The jocks peaked in HS, and like to relive their glory years

That's not true. It makes you sound like an insecure loser.

Also a textbook nerd here. However my school - mid central Ohio was full of Stoners, partiers and generally not highly motivated students. I graduated in ‘93, Valedictorian and was one of only a few that went on the college and two that went to graduate school.I was definitely and proudly a nerd. But I was also the Captain of the varsity cheer squad and a year round competitive swimmer. In that tiny town, it didn’t take much to constitute a partier or a nerd and everyone walked a thin line between the two. A class of 52 total helped define quickly.

Can you define nerd? Super smart and studious, into weird subjects, or what?

Yes, but in my school a lot of the nerds/ smart crew were also part of the party crew and the popular kids. It was a generally nerdy school.

No. I was popular/cheerleader/dated best-looking guys/top 10 grades in the class/went to all the parties/went to cool smart college.

But I am a huge nerd now. It was a lot of work and I didn't enjoy it. I am an introvert at heart and I like my life much better now that I'm listening to myself. I've encouraged my kids to follow their own paths.

I was voted bookworm in my school superlatives. I didn’t party. But I did have friends and dressed nicely.

Anonymous wrote:I was not officially a "nerd" but I discovered in 10th grade that the kids I sat with, we were all classified as "brains".

Yeah, I was in the smart kid group, but we weren’t stereotypically nerdy. We mostly hung out, played sports, went to movies, etc. That said, we were not exactly chick magnets or partiers, so we kind of got lost in the shuffle.

Anonymous wrote:Yes I was. 🤓

Nerd = Not meaning particularly smart (I wish!)
Or even particularly talented either (No band or drama club geek.)

Just an overall nerd because I didn’t blossom until after High School.
And I never had nice, stylish clothing.

The good part about being a nerd in H.S. however is that after H.S., there was only ONE direction for me to go & that was up!!

Thank God.

This was 100% me. I truly thought I was the only virgin in my entire senior class. I wasn't. I had terrible clothes, no sense of style, teachers and guidance counselors did the bare minimum (one history tea her played a cassette tape of his lecture while he read the newspaper).

Thank God I eventually applied to college in my 20s and graduated. Now I have a great career, successful, $. No thanks to my teachers or parents.

Anonymous wrote:The geeks shall inherit the earth. The jocks peaked in HS, and like to relive their glory years

Not really. All then jocks got sales jobs and married the homecoming queen.

Only the geeks with rich parents made it to Silicon Valley to expand fortune did well

Anonymous wrote:I was a bookish, shy valedictorian, so yes.

But I got a PhD instead of going to law school, like some idiot, so I am not the typical DCUM demographic. I don't even make 6 figures.

Right there with you.

Definitely. I’m still a nerd today. Fine with that.

I was a hippie type, they called us, Freaks back then. But I was also a math genius so there was that.

I was captain of the math team. You do the math.

Anonymous wrote:I was too much of a nerd for the cool kids and too cool for the nerds. Stuck in between.

Invisible in between the two groups.

Anonymous wrote:I was a stupid nerd. I loved reading but got bad grades, and had zero interest in partying or drinking.

Same here, I was a depressed slacker/loner. No friends, bad grades, just a shut in who only wanted to read and play video games. Came out of my shell a bit in college after transferring to a decent 4 year from community college and ended up being pretty successful in school and my career. Kinda crazy how people take high school so seriously when it doesn’t matter at all. I felt so depressed and guilty for having a 2.0 GPA and thought I wouldn’t ever turn things around but a decade later I’m in the top 1% of income.