Comments on: Nerds don’t have to be unpopular http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2005/05/05/nerds-dont-have-to-be-unpopular/ iPhone, iPad and Mac OS X Programming (with a dash of Ruby) Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:05:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Peter Centgraf http://www.luisdelarosa.com/2005/05/05/nerds-dont-have-to-be-unpopular/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Peter Centgraf Fri, 27 May 2005 20:48:41 +0000 http://www.luisdelarosa.com/wordpress/?p=115#comment-167 Any school that has a critical mass of academically-focused people can produce a similar social environment. Also, it helps if your school's top academic achievers are also sports team captains and surf-punk guitar players. I was the former, and a good friend (now in med school) was the later. <a href="http://www.brookfieldacademy.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.brookfieldacademy.org</a> P.S. I knew a few (more recent) TJ alums from my days at Rice University. The same logic that you propose for high schools also applies in spades at a university. Any school that has a critical mass of academically-focused people can produce a similar social environment. Also, it helps if your school’s top academic achievers are also sports team captains and surf-punk guitar players. I was the former, and a good friend (now in med school) was the later.

http://www.brookfieldacademy.org

P.S. I knew a few (more recent) TJ alums from my days at Rice University. The same logic that you propose for high schools also applies in spades at a university.

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