I was a massive nerd. Well I still am. Give me all the knowledge!!! Physics, Calculus and art were probably my favorite though. Band too but that doesn’t feel like it counts as a class.
@ItalianScallion I wear way too many hats. It is known. Blessing and a curse. My website is somewhere in the plans. Im not happy with its current state but I have to finish the shop before I can get it set up properly. I just need a clone so I can actually do all the things.
@jouest that is hilarious! We didn’t have enough kids in GT/Honors for our physics class to be designated Honors but we lucked out and all but two kids were the usual suspects. The two who weren’t typically in honors classes were still extremely smart and we had the most amazing class. We finished the curriculum 6 weeks early and had an amazing teacher who had previously worked for NASA. So he let us break into groups and build Rube Goldberg machines with the caveat that we had to use at least one of each of the six simple machines in the process. We also ranked in multiple categories for the State Physics Competition at Tulane and got 2nd overall. Yes. Yes, we were giant nerds.
Art, music, science - except chemistry which prevented me from getting my PhD in human genetics which to this day I regret not doing… and as a 20 something I co-ran a 5 day sleep over 5th grade school science camp (at a summer camp site but it was all school year long) and then later a daily week long 6th grade science enrichment camp (and a week long summer one where they’d do things like figure out the physics of roller coasters while taking gravity measurements while on them) at an electron beam accelerator. That was sandwiched in between outdoor adventure jobs and later going back to school to become a faculty member in business (also taught health care administration).
@werehatrack Definitely — the rule is “don’t stand out for anything, except being good at sports or being rich.” Anything else will bring unhealthy attention from the general public (and/or from authority figures).
It generally gets better as we get older (or get into larger populations with greater variations), but it never completely goes away.
I do think bragging is a bad idea, but there is risk of misinterpretation of what “brag” means.
I’m still mixed on taking pride in our work. It would be better if we had two different words, to distinguish a healthy sense of accomplishment from the puffed-up overblown sense of self-importance version.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A this point I think I’ve rambled away from what the conversation was even about…
Anything art related I really came into my own and is still what I love today. Criminal justice related stuff in colllege, I could sit in those classes and never get bored. I felt very confident about knowing what I was speaking about and expressing my views in class and wasn’t afraid to speak up.
Nap time.
@Thumperchick I slept through that class.
@Thumperchick I got in trouble often at nap time.
Also, that Irk is terrifying.
@Thumperchick Yeah!!!
@Thumperchick yeah that’s my bad
I was a massive nerd. Well I still am. Give me all the knowledge!!! Physics, Calculus and art were probably my favorite though. Band too but that doesn’t feel like it counts as a class.
@sillyheathen This is me too! (except for art class) My latest nerd/geek thing was to build a website for a club I’m in.
@sillyheathen I was in the dumb physics class. we called it physnax and the acceleration of gravity was 10.
@ItalianScallion I wear way too many hats. It is known. Blessing and a curse. My website is somewhere in the plans. Im not happy with its current state but I have to finish the shop before I can get it set up properly. I just need a clone so I can actually do all the things.
@jouest that is hilarious! We didn’t have enough kids in GT/Honors for our physics class to be designated Honors but we lucked out and all but two kids were the usual suspects. The two who weren’t typically in honors classes were still extremely smart and we had the most amazing class. We finished the curriculum 6 weeks early and had an amazing teacher who had previously worked for NASA. So he let us break into groups and build Rube Goldberg machines with the caveat that we had to use at least one of each of the six simple machines in the process. We also ranked in multiple categories for the State Physics Competition at Tulane and got 2nd overall. Yes. Yes, we were giant nerds.
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Art, music, science - except chemistry which prevented me from getting my PhD in human genetics which to this day I regret not doing… and as a 20 something I co-ran a 5 day sleep over 5th grade school science camp (at a summer camp site but it was all school year long) and then later a daily week long 6th grade science enrichment camp (and a week long summer one where they’d do things like figure out the physics of roller coasters while taking gravity measurements while on them) at an electron beam accelerator. That was sandwiched in between outdoor adventure jobs and later going back to school to become a faculty member in business (also taught health care administration).
One of the earliest things that was driven home to me was that I should STFU and never brag about anything. It made me that much more of a target.
I was taught early that no matter what I did, I was not allowed to take pride in it. I still have problems with that.
@werehatrack Definitely — the rule is “don’t stand out for anything, except being good at sports or being rich.” Anything else will bring unhealthy attention from the general public (and/or from authority figures).
It generally gets better as we get older (or get into larger populations with greater variations), but it never completely goes away.
I do think bragging is a bad idea, but there is risk of misinterpretation of what “brag” means.
I’m still mixed on taking pride in our work. It would be better if we had two different words, to distinguish a healthy sense of accomplishment from the puffed-up overblown sense of self-importance version.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A this point I think I’ve rambled away from what the conversation was even about…
@werehatrack consider this your invitation to shamelessly brag and be celebrated
Any subjective class; the more I could speak or write, the longer I could BS the time away.
Anything art related I really came into my own and is still what I love today. Criminal justice related stuff in colllege, I could sit in those classes and never get bored. I felt very confident about knowing what I was speaking about and expressing my views in class and wasn’t afraid to speak up.