Tufts University "Nerd Girls"

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by daba
5062 Posts
hates his slippers.
2 weeks, 6 days ago
5 months, 2 weeks ago

It seems like it's never been cooler to be a nerd. I've met more self-proclaimed nerds in the last year or two then I've ever met.

...These are women with brains to match their good looks, and that's exactly the point. Called the Nerd Girls, this team of twentysomething Tufts University coeds was created by founder Karen Panetta to dismantle two common "myths." First, that boys are better at math and science than girls; and second, that a female engineer is a socially inept girl with no sense of style....

...The Nerd Girls may not look like your stereotypical pocket-protector-loving misfits—their adviser, Karen Panetta, has a thing for pink heels—but they're part of a growing breed of young women who are claiming the nerd label for themselves. In doing so, they're challenging the notion of what a geek should look like, either by intentionally sexing up their tech personas, or by simply finding no disconnect between their geeky pursuits and more traditionally girly interests such as fashion, makeup and high heels....

 

 

http://gizmodo.com/5016639/tufts-university-nerd-girls-are-hot-gadget+loving-engineers-on-a-mission-read-not-a-mirage 

by EStan
188 Posts
isn't suprised that TVOTR is leading the Prefix polls, but still a little dissapointed.
1 day, 6 hours ago
5 months, 2 weeks ago
I just graduated from the University of Chicago, and I encountered more than a few nerdy girls there. We used to joke that every girl at the U of C has been described by another girl at the U of C as "oh her? She's crazy." There was also a very weird polyamorous side to the culture, at least in Chicago.
by Al
1109 Posts
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Im into nerd #2.

 

(nerd #1 looks like one of my cousins...damn) 

by daba
5062 Posts
hates his slippers.
2 weeks, 6 days ago
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Not enough glasses

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