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...Dern ’07: the Beauties may not have appreciated him, but perhaps the the Bachelorettes will have a different view of his Ivy League education and predilection for self-referent Facebook groups. After his thrilling run on Beauty and the Geek, we vote to give this nerd a second shot at true reality TV love. 5. Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62: this guy won’t just mail it in: signed, sealed, delivered, he’s yours...
...read a lot of stuff—Hunter S. Thompson, Tim O’Brien, Patrick O’Brian, Terry Pratchett. I’m a giant nerd...
...School comedies from as far back as Harold Lloyd's The Freshman in 1925 set up the basic conflict of nerd vs. jock. The athlete was seen as stuck-up, taking adulation as his due, knowing "you gotta be a football hero to win the love of a beautiful girl." So virtually every high school or college comedy dramatized the triumph of the outsider against the sportsman establishment. In 1989, Heathers lifted that vengefulness to a tragicomic delirium...
...smartest (37% wanted to be most athletic, and 9% wanted to be best looking). But only 0.3% said the reason to be smartest was to gain popularity. We like athletic prodigies like Tiger Woods or young Academy Award winners like Anna Paquin. But the mercurial, aloof, annoying nerd has been a trope of our culture, from Bartleby the Scrivener to the dorky PC guy in the Apple ads. Intellectual precocity fascinates but repels...
...Visit Nerd World to read The Spoiler Post. The post contains major major major Harry Potter spoilers. Do not read if you haven't already finished Deathly Hallows...