Nerd, Geek, Dork or Normal?

[stevesurf]

Everyone has a little (or a lot) of this in them; what is your percentage (they must add up to 100%).

Here's a set of simple definitions:

You are a Nerd if you are passionate about learning/being smart/academia

You are a Geek if you have a passion about some particular subject, often an obscure one

You are a Dork if you have difficulty with common social expectations/interactions

You are Normal if you are none of the previous

I am:

50%Nerd 25%Geek 10%Dork 15%Normal

 

[steel102]

all 4.

 

[bhd812]

Little Geek, alot of Panache = Howdy..!!!.. and the 1 1

 

[VicAjax]

i lean toward nerd.

more specifically, a nerdy male supermodel.

 

[granodemostasa]

1. Geek-My interest are in historical subjects and in constitutional interpretation
2. Dork-people don't like me much, although no one dislikes me.
3. Normal-that's how i'm described by most people, usually to say that there is nothing wrong with me.
5. Nerd-while I do really care, i find the philosophy of "life of the mind" to be one of the worst ever created.
To answer Fewtch: it's not the tendency that bothers me, i have that. what bothers me is when it takes over as the primary objective or when people discard all that does not fit within we western academic tradition (ie only greek philosophers are worth quoting).

 

[fewtch]

Quote:

Originally Posted by granodemostasa 5. Nerd-while I do really care, i find the philosophy of "life of the mind" to be one of the worst ever created.

I see it as more of a tendency than a philosophy. Some people are primarily left-brain thinkers, and get more satisfaction from intellectual pursuits than emotional ones. Nothing wrong with it... people are what they are.

 

[Kirosia]

None I guess. Like a few strange things, but I'm not obsessive about them. Besides, I doubt anyone who's met me would consider me a nerk, geek, or dork. I just don't exude that aura or play into it.

 

[Aman]

Definitely a Geek here. I have absolutely no problem with human interaction (in fact, to much of my disliking, I was one of the 'popular' guys at my high school), but I DO program for Open Source projects and love music to a fetish-like degree...

Makes me a geek, no doubt.

 

[fante7]

I am mostly a nerd with occasional geek tendencies. I expect to spend my life in academia.

 

[1911]

100% COOL

 

[VicAjax]

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1911 100% COOL

and 10% breathable polymer armor.

 

[Wmcmanus]

As of this point in my life, I'd say:

Nerd - 20%
Geek - 35%
Dork - 5%
Normal - 40%

I still have academic interests, but don't have the passion for it that I did when I was "coming up in the system" as they say. So now I enjoy reading about new developments in my areas of academic interest (accounting, law and finance) but not with anything to prove as such.

I spend a lot more time with the audio/video hobby than I ever could have imagined I would, and some of my very best "real world" friends are people that I've met through the a/v hobby, and Head-Fi in particular. It has been a pleasant detour at a point in my life when I now more have more liesure time than ever before.

I do all sorts of other things and the Santa hobby adds to my Geek score, but I'm still mostly "Normal" (as if any of us really are) in the sense that my family, lifelong friends, and people who matter most to me today (where I'm living) get more of my time, attention, and heart than any hobby ever could. Although, oddly enough, I don't really integrate my a/v hobby with my real life friends and family in any significant way. It's just kind of my thing, and we talk about it, but since they don't have the passion for it, I don't want to bore them with it.

In my late teens and throughout my 20's, I was on a "bound for success" mission like a runaway freight train and nobody could get in my way. I did my undergrad in 3 years, and then went right into grad school and law school for a total of 9 more years of full time study. I've collected as many initials after my name as I have headphones, so back then my scores would be very different:

Nerd - 70%
Geek - 5%
Dork - 5%
Normal - 20%

 

[DJ e]

Hmm...
Mostly a geek, and an undercover dork. I'm not really a nerd unless you count history/english classes; I have a knack for being extremely stubborn when it comes to academic subjects I abhor because of my geekiness. Odd, yes.

 

[felixkrull6]

50% Nerd
30% Geek
10% Dork
10% Normal

I think the Nerd & Geek part of me are highly correlated. I love learning and reading about almost anything, from polar explorations, sabermetrics, politics, history (especially warfare), and just about anything else I can get my hands on which leads to a lot of esoteric information about topics that most people couldn't care less about. I guess being on this site is by definition geeky, right?

 

[braillediver]

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Normal? I'd take that as an insult.

Mitch