<p>I've been told repeatedly that RPI is nerdy, which is one of the things that appealed to me. It seems like athletics are pretty big at RPI. I don't mind athletics as long as the jocks don't dominate everything. Is RPI really nerdy or is it dominated by arrogant egotistic jocks? I mean my high school is practically run by our football team. I'd really like to get away from that.</p>
<p>Oh, and I know hockey is big at RPI and I'm fine with that. I love hockey.</p>
<p>Well, in most situations, it is typically the jocky type of people that are the most outspoken, therefore they are given the most attention (by girls). You’re likely to get that in any society, that probably includes the RPI student community.</p>
<p>That said, I have seen many “nerdy” people during my 3 visits at RPI. </p>
<p>People can be egotistical jerks and not be jocks… gotta keep that in mind too.</p>
<p>Yeah, that’s true too. I am a girl but jocks don’t always appeal to me (at least the ones in my high school). Most of my guy friends are complete nerds.</p>
<p>You guys don’t have anything to worry about. You’ll have to really look to find the “jocks” at RPI 
Hockey is big because it’s Division 1 but everything else is really not all that huge. I’ve been up there a lot to see my daughter and to tell you the truth the only “jocks” I could tell you about are the 4 guys on the football team that live in the 1st floor rooms that I have to walk past to go up the stairs to get to my daughter’s room
They don’t give anyone a hard time. Definitely not a school overrun by any sports team.</p>
<p>Maybe it is just because my husband and I are both engineers as well as my dad and brothers, but RPI students seem pretty darn normal to me and less nerdy than I’ve seen at other schools. I don’t know how many of them would have run with the serious jock crowds in high school/college but quite a few are in intramural sports and really enjoy them, or work out at the gym. I’d classify them more as well balanced vs jock vs nerd. I think you can find all types from gamers to musicians to hackers to mild jocks to geeks to aviation fanatics to complete nerds. I think RPI is big enough and selective enough to try to round out its student body a bit. Our son truly loves it. He enjoys the student body’s love of technology but still gets to be the musician and play soccer. </p>
<p>(BTW, we distinguish geeks as people who love technology and nerds as socially inept in our family. Check out thinkgeek.com to see what makes a geek.)</p>
<p>I think of geek and nerd as interchangeable terms. When I refer to either term, I don’t necessarily mean socially inept individuals but rather individuals who are passionate about what they’re studying and would rather talk about something other than how great they are at the sport they play.</p>
<p>hey, im an egotistic geek. </p>
<p>quite to the contrary, Josh, in my school, geeks have a big one up over all the nerds and jocks. The jocks get all the cholas and the ghetto mijas, and the geeks get all the pretty girls. FUFUUFUFUUFUFU.
Btw, be a “geek” rather than a “nerd” (compelling argument follows):</p>
<p>Nerds were coined by Dr.Seuss. They’re those angry little autistic freaks. By definition, nerds are studious people who are socially and physically inept and are known to society as loners. </p>
<p>Geeks, on the other hand were coined by 1916 American traveling circuses. The billed performer’s act consisted of a single geek, who stood in center ring to chase live chickens. It ended with the performer biting the chicken’s heads off and swallowing them. derived from geck “a fool, dupe, simpleton.” Actually, ignore the etymology lol. Anyway, modern-day geeks are just like nerds except they have interests other than academics and social lives. </p>
<p>So! Would you rather be a ■■■■■ doctor seuss character, or a badass that runs around and bites off chicken heads? Besides, no one in RPI is a loner, and we’re all smart (thats how we got in,) so i conclude that we can reject H0: Nerds = geeks in favor of Ha: nerds< geeks since the given results are significant to the .0001 alpha level. in other words, RPI is a geeky school, not a nerdy school and the probability that RPI is registered as a geeky school by chance is about .01%.</p>
<p>Take that stats!</p>
<p>agagagagagaga</p>
<p>Lol donut. Ok, I think that answered my question. Sounds like I’ve got nothing to worry about. I really hope no one at rpi likes to bite off chicken heads :P</p>
<p>Only on wednesdays</p>
<p>and the third Thursday of every other month</p>
<p>THEY HAVE A GYM? YESS! is it anything like 24 hr fitness? im afraid of becoming a ball of lard in college. lots of my college friends are slowly getting thick, But if there’s a gym, that will not be an issue. 
great happiness! </p>
<p>sorry if im acting really weirdly these days, lol. for those who think i am a schizotypal freak, i swear, i’m not, its just the withdrawal symptoms from my daily dose of Orange Juice. >_> tropicana does stuff to you i swear.</p>
<p>in the hierarchy of society, the ‘geek’ is a really broad term for people who are into a specific field. Jocks are sports geeks, nerds are academic geeks, WoWers are RPG geeks, bandies = music geeks, etc.
social awkwardness is just a stereotype of certain geek groups (strangely probable stereotype). plenty of supersocial nerds, even WoWers out there. rpi is a big engineering school so -> math/science geeks. but since rpi is a cool school, they’d do their best to balance out geekiness with social grace in their incoming gene pool…er…student body.</p>
<p>just my theory.</p>
<p>btw has anyone received a package from RPI containing papers on final cost and insurance and stuff?</p>
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<p>What given results? Also, given that the number of students isn’t obscenely large, why not just census it?</p>
<p>it was a joke… nvm.</p>
<p>I think it’s funny that, in a discussion about geeks and nerds, that nobody mentioned that the word “nerd” originally came from RPI! It was used in a Dr. Seuss book back in the 20’s (I think), but the modern meaning of the word “nerd” comes from RPI, where is was spelled “knurd” (drunk spelled backwards), and was used to describe the students who chose to spend all their time in the library and dorm rooms studying instead of leaving and getting intoxicated on cheap beer like the rest of the students. Eventually the silent ‘k’ was dropped, and the ‘u’ replaced with the more phonetic ‘e’, leaving us with the word “nerd”.</p>
<p>At least that’s how the legend goes, but I’m personally inclined to believe it.</p>
<p>“Nerds were coined by Dr.Seuss. They’re those angry little autistic freaks. By definition, nerds are studious people who are socially and physically inept and are known to society as loners.”
oh, but mention it i did! fufufufu!</p>
<p>RPI is definitely not dominated by the so-called “egoistic jocks.” Sure, you have them at every school, but at RPI they are a minority. RPI is nerdy…it’s a polytechnic, so it’s pretty self-explanatory…but it’s not over the top nerdy for anyone that is afraid of the nerdy school idea. Personally, I’m not a ‘nerd’ and I have found that there are plenty of non-nerds here. It all depends on who you choose to hang out with.</p>