Everyone is a nerd now. They brag about loving science fiction, superheroes and video games-which are things for stupid people. When I was a nerd in high school, you had to be smart to be a nerd. You needed to like fractals, translating numbers into hexadecimal and reading James Joyce. Every so often there would be some kid with glasses, a thin neck and an obsession with World War Ⅱ battles in the Level I classes, and all the AP kids could think was, The only thing sadder than a nerd is a dumb nerd. If we had been better people, we would have let that kid come into our calculus class and sweat out the differential of a function on a blackboard while we chanted "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!" regardless of what the kid's name actually was.
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