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Amazing article you should read it especially f your in school

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t-man152
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this article put into words what I had been thinking since middle school. alot of the things from the article I realized while it was still happening so it made my life alot easier.

seriously read all of it I know it may seem long but its very well written.

IF YOUR A PARENT YOU DONT HAVE A CHOICE YOU HAVE TO READ IT

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
Jul 3 2006 6:38PM
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SkiCrzy
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article is pretty true, but way too long
Jul 3 2006 6:40PM
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BIGairVZ
Posts: 525 - Karma: 32
i'm not to sure about that article... it's only from the "d popularity" side of the spectrum. How does he know if he's never been on the "a" side?
Jul 3 2006 6:43PM
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BigJew
Posts: 6974 - Karma: 79
I read it a while ago. It's true! what more can I say.
Jul 3 2006 6:44PM
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AtomicTweaker
Posts: 2341 - Karma: 16
word
Jul 3 2006 6:46PM
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esquio316
Posts: 246 - Karma: 10
i gave up a few paragraphs in when i realized how damn long it really is.
Jul 3 2006 7:23PM
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SteezePatrol
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after reading the first paragraph I decided not to finish.

I don't think anything of "popularity levels" and that bullshit
Jul 3 2006 7:40PM
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esquio316
Posts: 246 - Karma: 10
me neither, and personally i wouldnt want to be popular. when youre "popular" everyone loves you, and i think popular people dont have any true, true friends. i have 4 or 5 TRUE friends who I can trust with anything, who I can talk to no matter whats happening. popular p[eople have so many friends, i dont know if some of them have time to get close enough to any of them to be able to talk to all the time without the secrets getting out. i just dont see whats so great about being popular
Jul 3 2006 7:42PM
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t-man152
Posts: 2896 - Karma: 14
well its too bad that you didnt finish it. because the stuff thats said later on isnt only about popularity it compares differnt society structures and trys to explain how they differ and why. in fact if you read further than school alot of the stuff said in that article aplies to this website
Jul 3 2006 7:59PM
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M+M
Posts: 7935 - Karma: 25
we have more then A-E lunch tables
Jul 3 2006 8:08PM
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jimmychung
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i think high school popularity is crap. is it just at my school, or does everyone in the "A" rank drink, smoke, and have sex? seems like if you do "scandalous" teenage crap like that, it wins you popularity. i've seen kids i know from middle school that were losers, and never had a chance at popularity. but once they were in high school, they started doing drugs, and suddenly everyone loves him. why? why are kids so frigging stupid that they need to do crap like that in order to have fun or be cool?
Jul 3 2006 11:26PM
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BurgRider
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Highschool is retarded. im glad im not in it anymore
Jul 4 2006 12:03AM
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Capt.Flannel
Posts: 10928 - Karma: 36
wow I wasn't smart and I wasn't cool; what the fuck man? High school was horrible.
Jul 4 2006 12:03AM
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prosnurfer
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if u read the whole thing its really good. he actualy does relate stuff and explainds. that was a very good/true artical.
Jul 4 2006 12:06AM
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slimbruddah
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Yea, i read it. It's true. Society's gay. And I think im like in the middle. I don't want to be popular. But I;'m friends with some of the popular kids. And I can talk to the crazy nerds to without being frowned upon. It's basically becase I'm dead sexy.
Jul 4 2006 12:07AM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
not true at my school, plenty of smart and popular people, and dumb anti social nerds
Jul 4 2006 12:25AM
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Capt.Flannel
Posts: 10928 - Karma: 36
ya actually, the popular jocks in my school were always wicked smart.
Jul 4 2006 12:26AM
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b-ladd
Posts: 2300 - Karma: 48
if i ever have kids im gonna have them read that when they go into middle school, or around that time
Jul 4 2006 12:44AM
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Capt.Flannel
Posts: 10928 - Karma: 36
What are you gona say to them after? "If you want to be cool, make sure you don't try your hardest"?
Jul 4 2006 12:46AM
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ninjea
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popularity is overrated
Jul 4 2006 12:55AM
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sdfjklioeur
Posts: 2082 - Karma: 114
Ok some kid was standing in the hall with a sign that said will you go to homecoming with me. i almost beat the same kids ass for yelling at my friend for talking to me in the lunch line. is that not an excuse to be persecuted.
Jul 4 2006 1:37AM
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Elijah.
Posts: 9322 - Karma: 76
I didn't understand any of that. But the article does make sense, but I don't think intellegence really matters, except to a certain point.
Jul 4 2006 1:53AM
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Itsbackfliptime
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he explained how he became popular later on in high school.
Jul 4 2006 2:38AM
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lalalalaura
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I'm pretty skeptical of anyone who tries to make sense of the futility of high school social structures by using logic. Anyone who tries to analyze anything about teenagers using common sense is probably missing something. Teenagers aren't simple to understand, that's why we do drugs, do irresponsible things and dont give a fuck.
Jul 4 2006 2:53AM
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hurrisun
Posts: 6284 - Karma: 49
same i have a friend he gets 95 average but he still plays all sports has a million friends and gets his dick sucked by a different girl every 2 weeks
Jul 4 2006 9:37AM
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Jamesl48
Posts: 547 - Karma: 10
Same at my school
Jul 4 2006 1:37PM
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Tom.
Posts: 1954 - Karma: 12
BS, all of it is total bull shit. the 2 smartest kids that were in my grade (9th) in highschool were probably the most socaly respected kids (amung the other freshmen)in the whole school.
Jul 4 2006 1:43PM
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GingerKid08
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Yea that article is BS. Popularity has nothing to do with intelligence, it relies on how you interract with other people. Social skills. I also dont think that school is just a place for adults to drop off kids so they dont fuck up the work place. School is a neccesity, he touched on how careers are getting more specialized, and because of that is why we need school. We cant just go out and be an apprentice to a brain surgeon, and expect to learn everything we need in a few years. The article makes it sound like he thinks school isnt neccesary and that its just a prison, or daycare for teenagers.
Jul 4 2006 3:04PM
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R-Bertsch
Posts: 4719 - Karma: 20
that sounds a lot like junior high but in my highschool at least the smart kids arent like made fun of or shit like that
Jul 4 2006 3:26PM
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Ds91260
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stay in school not on drugs
Jul 4 2006 4:56PM
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slimbruddah
Posts: 2611 - Karma: 25
I don't learn one fucking useful thing from school. Except maybe the basic Math stuff. The only thing I think they could teach you that could be useful, would be how to study. But they don't, casue they're dumb.
Jul 4 2006 5:14PM
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720laxskier
Posts: 2428 - Karma: 5
sounds like my school
Jul 4 2006 5:15PM
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s.jeff
Posts: 2255 - Karma: 32
i dont eiather, all that shit is bull
Jul 4 2006 5:16PM
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das
Posts: 66 - Karma: 151
long long long
Jul 4 2006 5:29PM
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