The more high-level math classes I take the more I find myself thinking about math without any real reason. At one point at a stop light, I suddenly thought it was odd that, as a kid I always thought that taking the square root of a number was in some way connected to dividing by two. Then I thought, well at least it works for one number (4). Then I quickly realized that 9 can be divided by three to achieve it's root and quickly worked my way up to 12 in my head. As I went along I became more and more excited (I felt I was on the cusp of something brilliant), but then, just as I was considering the enormity of the idea, I realized "Oh yea, that's how it has always worked". Then the light turned green and I went on my merry little way.
I also tend to bring up high level math in places where it's almost certainly not necessary. And I am a fan of awful movies (I don't know what that qualifies me as to be honest). More importantly, I'm willing (and eager) to argue about most any subject with just about anyone - not so much because I think my position is right (I often take a side I don't really believe in) but because I enjoy the sport of it all. But my most damning proof of nerdom: I fence. I suspected that fencing was the nerdiest of all sports until I found that every single member of my University fencing team is an honor student. I'm not sure what ratio of players in other sports have on the honor rolls, but I'm pretty sure we're beating out the football and basketball teams by a wide margin.
I also tend to bring up high level math in places where it's almost certainly not necessary. And I am a fan of awful movies (I don't know what that qualifies me as to be honest). More importantly, I'm willing (and eager) to argue about most any subject with just about anyone - not so much because I think my position is right (I often take a side I don't really believe in) but because I enjoy the sport of it all. But my most damning proof of nerdom: I fence. I suspected that fencing was the nerdiest of all sports until I found that every single member of my University fencing team is an honor student. I'm not sure what ratio of players in other sports have on the honor rolls, but I'm pretty sure we're beating out the football and basketball teams by a wide margin.
