American geeks

[Aslyn]

To parrot everyone else, you should be fine. My university had clubs for Japanese culture, anime, Magic:The Gathering, Halo, on and on and on. And this is when Halo 2 was new, geek culture is bigger now.

 

[Twilight_guy]

You'll have to look for it, but any sufficiently large college will probably have some sci-fi oriented club. The role playing club will exist but ay not be an official club. If you go looking you'll find them. I think other cultural differences will be more important then finding your cultural sub-group.

 

[Mrkillhappy]

Where I go to school geek culture is excepted although I am always around the math and science majors so yeah. Although it does seem the be the "it" thing right now due the Movies such as the Avengers.

 

[thegingerone]

I'm from the west coast and I went to college there, and yes, there is a lot of geek culture at most west coast schools, especially the smaller liberal arts colleges, where pretty much everybody's a geek about something. If you want it, its probably there. At my undergrad the biggest thing was anime and japanese culture, but we also had a LARP club, a NERF club, an annual humans vs zombies game, D&D, Magic, tabletop and console gaming clubs.

 

[uchytjes]

Depends on what type of geek culture you are looking for. For instance you have your D&D kids, who are still kinda looked down upon but not so much. Then you have gaming geeks which have come further into the mainstream than any other type. Then you have your anime geeks like myself that seem to have gone down in numbers as far as people that are actually sane v.s. completely biased "I am right and you are ALWAYS wrong" people.

 

[Nurb]

You shouldn't have a problem. Geek culture is "in." I go to a school in the middle of the rural midwest, and I'm never at a loss for geek talk. Should be even easier on the West Coast.

Weeelll "geek culture" isn't really "in"... more like a few things geeks got laughed at for liking now have broader appeal.

There's liking star wars and playing video games, then there's people who know the history of the sith empires, sand people, know what jawas look like under their robes, and their culture while discussing it over their voice chat server during their 4th hour into a raid for new gear.

 

[Angie7F]

I would also opt for the hanging out where geek hang out option, and naturaly make friends than to jump in to a club that can be full of politics.