Word: nerd
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When [SONG President] Jeremy Kahn told me he was forming this organization, I realized that I was a closet nerd or geek by the way I was leading my life up until this point and all the things I think about," said Widerman. "I find myself being stereotyped in a way that I have fought against all my life...Clearly people have some conception of what nerds or geeks are supposed to look like. I don't look like that, but somewhere in my own mind I think of myself...
...would build little towns in her room or beg her father to let her throw a pot, or have spirited games of chess with Tan. "I find it very fun to be thinking all the time, figuring things out. I guess you could say I was somewhat of a nerd," she laughs...
Kahn decided that honesty was the best policy when he named the new club. "We could have called ourselves the Academic Intellectual Society but then everyone would have said, 'Oh, you mean the nerd-and-geek club...
Leonid Fridman, Mather House resident tutor and SONG graduate school advisor, stressed the importance of creating an atmosphere where learning is encouraged and fostered. "It's ridiculous that at a place like Harvard 'nerd' and 'geek' should be derogatory words," said Fridman...
Still, Gil's household is a sea of tranquillity compared with those of his siblings. One sister is single-parenting a potential juvenile delinquent. Another is married to a character played by this summer's one-man nerd fest, Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters II and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), who has their two-year-old memorizing square roots and reading Kafka. Then there's a brother, who drifts back home looking for a new way to get rich without working, help with his gambling debts and a place to park his illegitimate child, whose name is Cool, whose skin...