Where I live, today was a public holiday, because ANZAC Day was Sunday. So the school week starts tomorrow. Ugly uniform! Idiot boys on bus! Idiot and bitchy girls in homeroom! Insane history teachers who love giving out homework more than giving out detentions! Yay! One class I really like, then some boring/bad/terrible ones! Then maths, where I sit a table full of people who will totally ignore me unless they’re really having trouble with a problem. And… c’mon, this is the advanced class. Of course we get more homework than everyone else. Yay! Only that time I meant it.
In many of my other classes, the Populars annoy the cake out of me (what’s new?). I also have no friends in half my classes, including maths, but it’s one of my favourite classes. Lovely nerdy atmosphere, and no one in my table group really dislikes me, I just choose to be invisible. My question is, why is it so nerdy? What is it about liking maths that freaks the populars out so much, it’s not the only factor determining nerdiness. I have plenty of nerdy friends who are bad at maths. But seriously? The same for my French class. Actual conversation I had on the first day of ninth grade:
Popular: What class are you going to?
Me: French! *is really, really, happy about this*
Popular–>
*backs away from me* (She actually did that, I’m not exaddurating.)
All the Populars are doing cooking as an elective, probably beacause it’s easier. I do Media as well, and it’s also pretty hard. But not one of the Populars has stared at me in horror when I told them I do that, and a few of them do it the selves. If one of them says she got an A in something like English or religion, the others wouldn’t care. (And the people I know of who actually care about religion are in my group, most people say it’s a waste of time.) And while no one in my French class is really popular, they’re less nerdy than my maths class. So is there actually some rule that if you like maths, you’re a nerd, or is it just only the nerds who care about maths?
Although I’m certainly not complaining.