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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.

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What Kind of Nerd/Geek/Dork are you?

Category: Geek News • Haha, a funny
Posted on: September 21, 2006 11:41 PM, by Jake Young

Hells yeah:

Modern, Cool Nerd
86 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 30% Dork

You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

You're damn right you want me to be your lifeline. I crush people at trivia games. I am like the Patton of Trivial Pursuit, routing the enemy from the field and slapping subordinates who slow me down. (Except sports...Damn you sports!!!!)

And no joke: I own a pocket protector and wear it to work at the hospital.

lf you want to take the test click here.

Hat-tip: Razib.

Comments

no, you're evil.

Posted by: razib | September 22, 2006 1:23 AM

Pure Nerd
65 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 17% Dork
For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.

The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

Congratulations!

--guess i'll never be as cool as you, jake...

Posted by: kara | September 22, 2006 7:14 AM

Jake, I have never lost at trivial pursuit. Ever. And I know sports.

Posted by: RPM | September 22, 2006 9:52 AM