I'm reading about graduate students and there big accomplishments and stuff...but how do those people have a life outside their work. Most people I know would laugh at these nerdy people...not that I support that.
I guess what I'm asking is - -- is it better to give your life to knowledge and science than to live it up socially?
2006-11-20 14:08:10 · 8 answers · asked by Greg S 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
People won't think your "cool" but instead think you're a nerd/geek lol.
2006-11-20 14:11:39 · update #1
YOU GET YOUR WORK DONE FIRST AND THEN YOU PLAY VIXEN BY NIGHT. SETTING TIME LINES FOR YOUR SELF. GET TO KNOW YOUR DAYS AND YOUR LIMITS. Day's YOU HAVE CLASS TAKE IT EASY THE NIGHT BEFORE IF YOU DECIDE TO HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS NO YOUR LIMIT. DRINKING WISE YOU WANT TO HAVE ONLY ONE OR TWO DRINKS AND THEN REMEMBER YOUR TIME LIMIT YOU WANT TO GET TO YOUR ROOM AT A CERTAIN TIME EVERY NIGHT THE RES CLASS KIND OF LIKE A CURFEW SAY NO LATER THAN 11:00 REMEMBER YOUR LIKE SUPERMAN YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT YOU ARE A GEEK BY DAY SO MAKE A EASY EXIT PRACTICE QUOTES AND MOTION TO GET GET YOUR SELF BACK INTO SHAPE FOR THE NEXT DAY HAVE FUN
2006-11-20 14:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by diary 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I spent my senior year in high school at college. The state paid for the one year, I got one year credit for college. Some thought I was a geek and crazy. Until I was out at noon from school and had classes only 4 days a week.
I attend and played sports for my high school and attend all the great dances with dates. you can have both social and academic life
I got a 4.0 for that year and a mini scholarship for one class during the summer. I took that one also, I speak 3 languages, have an awesome major and two minors on of which is engineering.
I have a great future with a job that will proved excitement and travel. I hope that my friends back at school have had as much fun as I have had the past 3 years.. What you work for in school is your future not the approval of others,
2006-11-20 22:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by Wicked 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
IT depends
SOme people need people and social interaction
Others ( like me) don't. It takes a special kind of person to be a geek
I am a geek, i am not afraid to admit it. But i do have a life also.
I don't *need* one persay but i enjoy having one.
I have a HOTT girlfriend, friends, and even play multiple instruments(bass, saxophone, piano)
but i also am in ALL honors classes and I am also in an 11th grade math class. (im a freshman)
I also have all A's which is hard in highschool.
YOu will have to work at it, but its possible to balance it
But if u HAVE to make a choice, be nerdy and rich when ur older
2006-11-20 22:19:31 · answer #3 · answered by pirate_ninjarawr 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ya know yahoo answers has got to stop doing this to me! it's deleting my answer!
i SAID i lived a double life.. at school i was the smart nerd type... away i was the bead wearing, dreadlocking.. patchouli burning, pot headed hippy type.
some seen me and rumors began... i denied it and many couldn't believe it so they just waved a dismissal saying impossible.
it was fun.
it was like i was some character... during the day i'm straight up and anal... doing my duty towards the diffusion and distribution of knowledge...
at night.. bead wearing.. patchouli burning.. pot smoking hippy who hung out with the coolest chicks and guys.
near the end everyone caught on.. it was fun though.
i still suffer this pheonomen... i guess it's a character thing or something.... born like this.
it works for me.. when i'm at work i'm the professional who no one can tolerate because i'm straight up, anal and to the letter.
home.. well.. just call me mr. natural, cool, chilly.... the socialite...
you don't have to give up.... anything... i didn't.
actually it was fun... sure surprised quite a few folks... my neighbors would urinate themselves if they seen me at work.. they think i'm some glittery hippy who always has social gatherings and it's just happy happy joy joy, relax.. meditate.... incense... vegetarian... the fountains... rock garden.. zen stuff...
they see me at work the anal.. uptight... chop chop! upright, snap to it... a crisp salute to profits... and aim for the top forget the half way marker! go all the way or no way at all.. so on.
of course if those at work seen me how i am at home.. they'd probably think there were actually twins... that i was fooling them or something.
they don't even think i drink... or even go to the bathroom!
:D
2006-11-20 22:21:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your statement shows your inexperience. My suggestion is to go ahead and get that geek degree and when you hit the outside after school you will no dought find your social skills. You will find the right crowd and they will like you for whom you are. GO FORTH AND GEEK AWAY.
2006-11-20 22:14:22 · answer #5 · answered by Paint N Paper 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live for school. I work in the morning, go to class in the afternoons, and rehearse in the evening. (I'm a theatre major.) I plan on going to grad school, so I need to focus on school.
My mom is in grad school right now, 20 years after finishing undergrad, and her social life REALLY affected her ability to find a good grad school and job. My mom was a partier, so not an A student. She went to apply for grad school, and they asked, "So, what's with these C's?" Very difficult to justify the party lifestyle later in life. Not worth it. Usually. ;-)
2006-11-20 22:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by Esma 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
us geeks rule the world, the slackers pump our gas
2006-11-20 22:16:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like it's too late...
2006-11-20 22:17:43 · answer #8 · answered by forex 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋