[OT] Nerds

[Kamog]

In high school, I actually enjoyed most of my classes. Only later did I discover that a lot of people hated school. I especially loved math and science. I remember being so excited when I learned something like how to use logarithms. For some reason, my classmates did not share my enthusiasm. After school, often I stayed behind in the computer lab, writing little programs for fun, and learning about computers. In my high school, calculus was not part of the curriculum, but an extra class outside of regular hours was offered, so I was in that class in addition to my regular classes - I was very happy about learning calculus. I only had a few close friends and did not associate with people outside my small group of about three friends. In fact, that's the way it has always been for me, not just during high school. I had absolutely no interest in being popular or looking good. Outside of the few friends I had, I did not care at all about the other people or what they thought about me, and rarely talked to them. I did not spend too much time doing homework, because for the most part I didn't find it very difficult. But I did spend extra time to learn additional material I was interested in, and I entered math and science contests. Anyway, my memories of high school are mostly positive.