Updates & tricks to be a superb nerd

Phew! It has been......light years since this blog is last updated!! Thousands of apologies my darlings for the uber slow updates.....

Since our last post, life as nerds have taken its toll on us. You see, we have been ultra busy trying to finish assignments, lab reports and meetings preparations, on top of that, we got to do weekly recap of lectures/tutorials, shopping, eating, facebooking, happyfarming, restaurant citying, sorority houseing, pet societying, texting, msn-ing, grocery shopping, oh wait....sorry, got off-track.

Life as nerds have been so hard these last 3 weeks, to the point that we go to uni on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. So basically, we sort of live at uni and our lovely apartments have turned into hotels, used only to bathe and sleep, nothing more, nothing less.

Pathetic? Yes.
We have no life? Yes.
We are obsessed with uni work? Yes.

It's boring as hell being a nerd? No.

You see, being nerds is not as simple as it sounds. Most commoners i.e. non-nerds, believe that being nerds is a simple matter of burying your head in books or in this digital age; it's a matter of slowly decreasing your acuity by staring at the colorful and gorgeous world of LCD display. Well my friends.......being nerds is far more challenging than that!

Being nerds means you have to know all of the following:
1. The opening and closing times of your favorite libraries
2. The rules and restrictions regarding food/drinks at your favorite study places (nerds eat and drink too you know)
3. Where to go when your favourite study box is packed
4. Where to go/ what to do when your place of nerding undergoes a blackout.
5. Which study places are open 24 hrs and what is needed to access them
6. Having a back-up to your back-up disk in case you lose/misplaced your usb
7. Have your audio lectures in your ipod/itouch, in case the internet is being slow and stupid and doesn't allow you a smooth, enjoyable experience when streaming your audio lecture.

and the list goes on......... feel free to add any that is missing from the above list.

If you've ticked all the things listed above, congratulations!

You are officially a world class nerd :)

Btw kiddies, this week i.e. the week that starts on Monday 25 May 2009 (I believe the week starts on a Monday, not a Sunday) is WEEK TWELEVE (Week 12), 12th week of the Semester aka the LAST WEEK OF SEMESTER 1 in the ACADEMIC CALENDER ala University of Melbourne. What this means, in short: life as nerds just got even harder.




~nj