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Undergraduate Council Vice President Eric N. Hysen ’11 is no stranger to working with technology. The computer science major and self-termed “CS nerd?? has been making Web sites since he was 10 years...
...first thing most people probably think of when they hear of Quidditch is role-playing, thereby relegating the sport to the “nerd?? bin with the likes of “Dungeons and Dragons” and “Magic: The Gathering.” It is true that the sport, founded in 2005 at Middlebury College in Vermont (and the origin of the modern 200-plus-team Intercollegiate Quidditch League), incorporates the rules of the fictional game as literally as possible...
...group of sixteen students. Currently, he is taking a break from the classroom to focus on his lab work. The Cohen lab is devoted to investigating molecules and cells using physical tools. Tucked away in the maze-like halls of Mallinckrodt, his lab is the ultimate science nerd??s dream, filled with gadgets, robots, and a 2500 pound table floating on nitrogen filled air sacs...
...CLASSIC NERD?...
...communicate with each other by way of groups called guilds.“You’re not just sequestered in your room, and even if you are, there’s always someone to chat or interact with,” says Casagrande.BREAKING THE ‘NERD?? BARRIERBut while the players themselves see the game as social, they are aware of the stereotype that surrounds them: that of the loner who is more comfortable in a virtual world than a real one. Not that they find this to be far from the mark...