nerd

Damn.

I just took a test to see if I'm a nerd, geek, or dork, which seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to do at the time. Here are my results:

Pure Nerd
73 % Nerd, 4% Geek, 39% Dork
For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.

The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer. Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

Congratulations!

Now, "cool" and "smooth" were not options here, and when the test asked me to guess what I was I did click "nerd," so I'm okay with being labeled a nerd. What disturbs me here is the 39% dork rating. Nerd is okay, dork is not. And I'm pretty sure it's because I said I didn't go to parties much and rated my fashion sense as "below average." Possibly also because when they asked me to pick between clumsy and graceful, no middle ground, I couldn't very well justify clicking "graceful." Stupid test. 39% dork, my ass.

You all suck at internet balderdash, but you have a chance to redeem yourselves by posting your Nerd, Geek, or Dork test results as comments. I'll be waiting.