Nerdiness In High School

Being a nerd is the best. I mean, sure you're not going to be the coolest person in school and may get picked on but so what. High school students are naturally pack animals and look to make their pack the largest and most dominant. So yes, those who are alone are going to have a difficult time getting through high school, and generally the ones left out have some sort of nerdy or "wired" tendency. The cool thing is that in real life, unlike in the movies, all the nerdy and weird kids don't stay ostracized from each other. They meet up and form their own group of friends and then people tend to leave them alone. Insults from one person are a lot less effective when they are thrown toward and entire group of people instead of one. Now if someone insults one of them it's not a big deal because they've got people around them now; to the victim the insults don't mean much because they've found friends who opinions they actually value. I've experienced this first hand. No, I wasn't bullied into isolation, but there was a time when I was ashamed of liking nerdy things. …show more content…
We were still into video games, but we got a little more into them. We started talking about PCs, and found out a lot of already had them, but we got big into upgrading and making our rigs more advanced and dedicated gaming rigs. Then we got the idea to have a LAN party at one of our houses. The first one was a small get together, but they steadily grew in size until we had 8 or more people, all with their own computers, stuffed into one room, playing video games. We spent hours on our computers everyday after school and we enjoyed it. Slowly a lot of the group got big into watching Anime because of me and the new kid. At first it was just us, but slowly, with a lot of persuasion, we convinced most of everyone to try and watch some. They all enjoyed it to some extent, so it was just another nerdy thing to talk