And I Thought *I* Was a Nerd
 

Kid just walked into the office, looking for an internship this summer.

Now, I consider myself to be a rather formidable nerd. This kid (who goes to MIT) beats me by leaps and bounds. Proof?

Listed on his resume as hobbies: Stamp Collecting & Math Tutoring.

Wow.

What, no text sims?

Nope. But he has Piano Tutoring experience!

He tutors people in math....as a hobby!?!?

He tudors Hillary Duff, Angie Everhardt and Jessica Simpson...so yeah it's just a hobby...

I am tutoring this really hot girl in math as a hobby.

Yeah, but I think you have a different "hobby" you are trying to get her to participate in...so that doesn't count as being a nerd :)

You are the biggest nerd I know, Coffee. Linux penguin et all.

I consider CoffeeWarlord as a geek. This guy is a nerd. :D

RULING NEEDED!

Does "loser" come into play here at all?

Enough said....

What about dork? Does that apply?

I think this post speaks most eloquently on the subject.

Does it list anything else as hobbies? Or is it safe to assume all he does is collect stamps and tutor people? Maybe he's a swinger as well, but didn't feel the need to put that on his resume. :D And if he tutors Calculus, he could be rich right now.

He does tutor Calculus. Multi variable calculus & diff eq.

He's a psycho, I tell you.

Edit: I take pride in my geekdom. But my level of nerd-dom pales in comparison to stamp & math boy.

See now, instead of "stamp collecting" the guy should have put "philatelist" - the meaning of which might be confused with doing multiple chicks at the same time, or something similarly un-dorkish.

He *did* list Ultimate Frisbee as a hobby as well, but since the other two were the aforementioned Stamps & Math, I think it's a bad attempt at a cover story, especially since he filled half a page on his resume with his various piano playing gigs.

Wait a minute now. Ultimate Frisbee is very cool, and counters two of the geek points at least. Motion to reconsider.

So, did I get the job, or not?

Yes, ultimate frisbee rocks.

However, how he can list that in the same line as fucking MATH TUTORING.

Motion fails.

I'm assuming that now would not be a good time to put on my wizard hat and robe?

Who lists hobbies on a resume?

Dude. There's ALWAYS time for wizard hats and robes.


Someone without enough experience to fill a full page, obviously!

Geeks, nerds, and college interns trying to fill space.



In regard to the Ultimate Frisbee, realize that you are two geeks who think it is cool. Therefore the level of coolness has been mitigated. Add one nerd point back.

Motion for summary judgement.

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Can't throw a frisbee for shit.

I could peg YOU in the head, if I HAD to.

Bet you think Ultimate Golf and Ultimate Curling are cool too.

"My Dad's got this ultimate set of tools...I can fix it!"

:( I put my interests on my resume... I was told to put it at the end. A small two to three sentences about what you do outside of school.. maybe because this was for co-op jobs?

I about as big of a geek there is, and I played Ultimate Frisbee.

I thought ultimate frisbee was the sport of dorks. I know I played it.

Oh, and to contradict the title of this thread. CW, you are a big nerd. Just because you found a bigger one doesn't mean you aren't ;)

SI

This thread takes me back to my college days. Going to school at MIT made me realize that there are many, many levels of geekdom.

Me, I'm with Coffee Warlord. A geek to some people maybe, but on the whole, a fairly typical member of society. I guess I'm a regular guy that likes some geeky things (like sport sims). I would say that most of the people I hung out with fell into this category.

The most bizarre bunch of folks at MIT were the "power-nerds". Every sterotype that you can come up with regarding nerdy behavior could be applied to these guys. They practically lived at the library, rarely showered, drank lots of Jolt and had all of the social graces of a peanut butter sandwich. Scary, scary folk.

No, no. Ultimate frisbee is really the sport of stoners and beach bums. It just got co-opted by us geeks.

Ultimate Frisbee is the sport of athletic geeks.

I love ultimate frisbee:cool:

I miss it. Played a mean game of ulimate frisbee back in college.

Couldn't run for shit, but I could catch and throw em quite well.

Geek.

My greatest Ultimate Frisbee memory comes from senior year in high school, when we had a big track team party after the season ended. We sprinters were challenged by the distance runners to an Ultimate Frisbee game...and we simply lit them up. It was a complete and total ROUT. We stomped 'em. We thrashed them. We...

Oh, sorry.

I listed watching CSPAN2 as a hobby for one of my internships...Does that make me a nerd?
(CSPAN1 is SO overrated)

Geek.

Well its all subjective because it was an internship with a State Senator.

brownnoser...

Nah, I love CSPAN2 I'm actually watching it right now...

Seriously?

Subjective evaluation: Brownnosing geek.

And I'm watching British Parliment...

Hell yea...Republican from Iowa Chuch Grassley is talking about creating jobs

I think they only show the British Parliment on Sunday nights or Tuesday nights actually

I tape them all...

Ah damn, I just realized I am a geek...

I used to try to watch C-SPAN, just never caught onto the plot.