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Andrew Warshall is a nerd, and proud of it. When comparison shopping for colleges in Cambridge four years ago, Tad, as he is commonly called, felt that MIT tried too hard to prove itself, with brochures desperately screaming, “It’s not true that everyone here is a nerd!” Warshall ruminates, “If you actually want to be a nerd, it’s not the place...
Currently applying to math grad schools, Tad contemplates how “it might be pleasant to be a mathematician, to think deep thoughts.” In the meantime, he stands by his nerd identity. “You take a word that people use against you...[and then] they have to invent a new word.” And what might that word be? “’Dork’ has been experiencing a cross-over,” he replies with an enigmatic smile...
...ladies in the making. Classmate and designer Johanna Ho, who schooled with Mok before going on to London to study with Stella McCartney, remembers Mok the modest: "She always wore glasses, was a straight-A student, had short hair and braces." Mok's happy to admit she was a nerd, an academic junkie. She won a scholarship to study Italian literature in Trieste and followed it with three years at the University of London. There she met Hong Kong music student Mark Lui, who now writes for Canto-pop royalty Kelly Chen and Leon Lai. Together they formed a group...
Fortunately, the Ants’ stage show does a decent job of keeping the audience distracted from the limited range and stunted quality of the actual songs. Singer Mitchell is the perfect spokesman for Geek Metal, looking to all the world like a nerd who played air guitar in grade school and somehow sprang to life under the lights. When he sings, he sways hunched-shouldered at the front of the stage like a child with a heavy backpack, letting words push their way forth from his poor twisted mouth. When he dances, he jerks his body back and forth...
...Boris G. Sumilovitch ‘03 dressed as a nerd for Halloween—pants high, shirt tucked in, sporting thick black glasses. 100% of the people that he met made some variant of a “Dude, you didn’t need to dress up to be a nerd!” joke. Sumilovitch noted that he should have anticipated that shit...