Test du Jour

[mbarrick]

So I took the What High School Stereotype Are You? and, as expected, it didn't really fit at all. Except for one question:

4. The school requires everyone to take a computer course. I...

• choose something more advanced, because I took them all already.
  
• don't give a damn. I'll sit there like I always do. They dictate my life anyway.
  
• panic and make peace with the nearest computer nerd.
  
• can type! Woo! Thys'll bee a peace of caek.
  
• find a virus to run in the main computer system, causing inconvenience to many, many poor teachers.
  
• can't believe I have to take a class with a bunch of geeks.
  
• take it of course. It's expected of me.
  

Of course I was doing this in pre-web, pre-GUI, non-networked computers (we even had to do an assignment with punch-cards), so rather than than a "virus" per se what I did was recompile the compiler with a new set of error messages. Mine were much more colourful than the standard ones. For example, "syntax error" became "you fucked up". I also, in a classic computer-geek manoever, got an "A" in a class I never took.

Nonetheless, for the record, I didn't get geek. Nor did I get goth. I got "outsider", which doesn't apply at all. I wandered through high-school somehow immune to the cliques... I was on the rowing crew, played rugby and even football for a while; I went to huge drinking parties with the shrubs and the indians; I hung around in the art-room; I helped the physics geeks with their homework; I played D&D; I took jazz-dance... I was an absolute freak, but I was *in* with too many groups to ever be considered an outsider.