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Postby design_femme » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:00 am

<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]
Where were you two when I was young? [:p]
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Dang, where were YOU? Although, I was too busy following the guy in the Joy Division t-shirt, trenchcoat, army pants, and Converse high tops at the time. I had a crush on him, but he had a crush on some cute punk girl. *Sigh* So John Hughes, my high school life.
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Postby toe_jam_on_toast » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:02 am

is psychology nerdy?


i did that at GCSE level then a-level before i dropped out of sixth frm college and then when i got into Uni a few years ago i took it as an elective before i had to quit due to lack of money...it was a case of study and either pay my rent or get evicted ... or quit Uni get a job and keep a roof over my head. i chose the latter...


tony blair said "education education education"...why are the fees for Uni going up again then?...twonk.




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Postby design_femme » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:06 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
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Design, being asian only adds to your HOTTIE points![:D]
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*throws tons of cash towards philly*
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Postby Bitter Almonds » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:12 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br>XXX, I started off studying sciences in college, and had to take… oh let's see… Organic Chemistry… twice… Animal Phyisiology… twice… Genetics… twice. Do we see a common theme here?[:D] Let's just say I was an expert of dropping a LOT of classes half-way through the semester…

Yeah. I'm the master of C+ averages in chemistry and biology.

I should've went to art school from day one instead of trying to fit into a career plan (medicine? dentistry? what was I thinking?) that was never meant to be.

I still have my Organic Chemistry text book, because for some sick reason, I'd like to revisit it.
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Haha. I didn't let that get to me. I still have trouble with some of those subjects. The one which I excelled at was organic chemistry, although I also liked inorganic and quantum stuff (did alright in both). Genetics was a probability nightmare (all you mathematicians out there... how I truly envy all of yous!). It's not too late to pursue other things, I figure, but I couldn't see myself as an artist of any kind[V]
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Postby Mechi » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:21 am

What's good about Organic Chemistry, Genetics and those type of subjects is that they really defy your mind to reach a higher level. That's why I decided to study Biology and not my second option (take a guess: Sociology!!!). I knew that I could get away with murder and get all A marks in Sociology without having to study at all. So I chose the difficult path. [;)]
As for Maths, well.... we have a love-hate realtionship. I got an A+ last year though... but Advanced Mathematics (or Análisis Matemático) that I'm taking now... I way more difficult and has loads of theorical explanation. In UBA they believe that a scientist that doesn't master Math, is not a good scientist.

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Postby Bitter Almonds » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:34 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by Mechi[/i]
As for Maths, well.... we have a love-hate realtionship. I got an A+ last year though... but Advanced Mathematics (or Análisis Matemático) that I'm taking now... I way more difficult and has loads of theorical explanation. In UBA they believe that a scientist that doesn't master Math, is not a good scientist.

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That pretty much applies to any school that places science and engineering above the rest of the subjects. I mean, I had to sit through crap like introductory linear algebra and differential equations - for WHAT?! Just because the school thinks it's fun and for kicks[8D] Besides, if you got some nasty integral on a test to work through, you just plug that shit into your TI-92 and it's, like... poof! MAAAAGIC[:D] If the profe doesn't give you the option of calculators, then most likely he/she'll give you the derivations and integrals that you'll need (i.e. there won't be any need to work through some silly integral that'll take one 20 minutes in a quantum physics or chemistry test).
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Postby Mechi » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:39 am

Don't have one of those magical calculators...very expensive. Just solve those nasty integrals with my hands and brain.

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Postby Frayo » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:41 am

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And my parents... I asked for a magical graphing calculator for Christmas...and I got it...and I showed it off at school..and nobody understood it.

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Postby i_like_lectric_motors » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:45 am

25 %. I'm surprised it was that high. [:(]
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Postby Mechi » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:52 am

Oh... I really wish for a magical calculator!!! anyway, I manage with what I have.

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Postby hexicon » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:54 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by KYYX4ever[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br> I dig science fiction, and think skinny, nerdy guys in glasses are HOT.
[/quote]

hee hee, me too! Always has been my "type".[:I]

[/quote]

Me three! Always been a sucker for the bespectacled Marshall Crenshaw look! [:D][:p]

As for sci-fi, I lean more toward sword & sorcery fantasy (mostly read literary fiction).

And for the law nerds out there, don't even get me started on my love for writing law review articles . . . though I have yet to achieve the coveted goal of writing a page that is entirely footnotes with no actual text at all!
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Postby toe_jam_on_toast » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:58 am

Almost Nerdy
You scored 55% nerdliness!
You're almost nerdy. You might hang out with them sometimes, you're nice enough not to make fun of them, but you're not obsessive or anti-social enough to deserve the full-blown nerd title. But don't despair; you're close enough that this girl might go out with you anyway.


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Postby Mechi » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:22 pm

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Postby egg-roger » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:41 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by Frayo[/i]
<br>And Im an accounting major at ASU.


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Postby scramjet » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:19 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by design_femme[/i]
<br><br>[quote][i]Originally posted by scramjet[/i]
Where were you two when I was young? [:p]
[/quote]

Dang, where were YOU? Although, I was too busy following the guy in the Joy Division t-shirt, trenchcoat, army pants, and Converse high tops at the time. I had a crush on him, but he had a crush on some cute punk girl. *Sigh* So John Hughes, my high school life.
[/quote]

Aw, come on. Tall, skinny, nearsighted, socially awkward teenage guys who like science fiction are a dime a dozen. Females who are attracted to them are much rarer.

I was an engineering major which gets me lots of nerd points. The only way to beat that is to have camped out in costume for a Star Wars movie.

Well, this guy has me beaten by a long ways, too:

http://www.tronguy.net/TRONcostume/
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