/sci/ - Science & Math

Back when I was 10 I had this awesome idea to cure HIV. At least, I thought it was awesome at the time. I got out two sheets of college ruled paper and wrote down my plan. I remember running it past my teachers at the time and they were impressed. Not in the condescending "oh, isn't that cute?" kind of way, but in the "holy shit, he's 10 and he's cured AIDS" kind of way. I felt like I was on top of the world.

I felt pretty damn good about myself. There I was, a real life Doogie Howser with the fucking cure for AIDS. I remember showing my dad, and at first, he was pretty impressed. Then he started asking me a bunch of questions that no one else had thought of about my little theory. It slowly dawned on me that I couldn't answer everything and that there were a lot of holes in my arguments that I couldn't explain. I was pretty mad at him for a while, but it really made me think about the system I was working with.

Now that I think about it, I could be really cynical and blame my dad for killing my creativity, but I'm glad he did what he did. At the time, I sounded really smart to people who didn't know all the big words I was regurgitating from National Geographic, but my dad knew better. In fact, it was his questioning and his refusal to put me up on the big kid-genius pedestal that made me want to be better and to really understand things without thinking I was hot shit on a stick.

In conclusion, Dexter's a cookie.

The show Big Bang Theory is a regular sitcom with a few nerd jokes sprinkled in. The show itself isn't particularly nerdy at all. Instead, the writers are pandering to the sort of people who want to consider themselves nerds.

Why would they want to do that? Well, nerds are smart. Who cares if you're socially inept when you're smart? Your mighty intellect is enough to make up for your poor hygiene and your fixation with the vidya!

Keep watching the show. Keep telling yourself that you're smart because you know what the equation on the blackboard means. Keep laughing at the safe, secure references to Super Mario and other family-friendly video games. Keep telling yourself that you're watching a sitcom that's completely unrelated to damn near every other sitcom in existence.

Your buddy,

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