Wednesday, September 1, 2010

I geeked out my classmates.

Medical students are an interesting group of nerdy overachievers. We are the people who wrecked the curve in your science generals and destroyed it in your 'Family Economic Issues' upper division FCS class. Type A grade grubbers who think jokes like "a sodium ion and a chloride ion got into a fight and got arrested for a salt," are funny. The good news is we generally understand each other pretty well. Yesterday, in histology, I started up a lively conversation of "if you could be any type of cell, which would you be?" (I would be an astrocyte or a macrophage, by the way). A few minutes into the conversation someone expressed surprise that we were talking about our favorite cells. I must have been tired because I heard myself (I couldn't stop) tell them about the time I made a diagram of a cell using my Café Rio salad on a date. It got kind of quiet. "You what?" asked the engineering major from the Y. "Ooooooo," said the obsessive video gamer, "that's pretty bad." "Wait, do you have a girlfriend?" asked all the girls in unison. "I know," I said, "but in my defense, she asked me to do it and she did go out with me again." I hope I saved face, but I'm afraid the secret's out--I'm the biggest nerd in the whole class only not smart.

6 comments:

  1. Oh Davey. That's awesome. Glad you've made some nerdy friends. I've always referred to "your kind" as the DAR's of a class. That's short for "damn average raisers." You can always pick them out there on the front row. Well, it's true. Are there fights in med school over the front row seats? Just wondering...

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  2. Oh goodness. Dave. Sometimes there is just too much to say! I LOVE this. You have such a knack for embarrassing yourself and for doing things even when you say you don't want to. That could be one of the biggest reasons why we're friends! Easy entertainment.

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  3. Music majors do similar geeky things, and tell the same kinds of jokes... but without the earning potential and usually without any dates.

    I'm so glad you've found your place on the front row.

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  4. Oh boy! I remember you telling me about this. I'm glad you have friends who understand the jokes you tell (like the salt joke above). Truth is none of us "normal folk" are smart enough to follow along! So you refer to the: engineering major from the Y, and the gamer, along with the girls ... what are YOU referred as?

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  5. I remember this. I was there. And I think the 'what kind of cell would you be?' question just might trump the Cafe Rio cell salad story. Truth is, if you had been out with the right kind of girl, either would have been a hit. I would definitely be a spermatozoon. Because, if I won, I would get to become a whole organism. Plus, the whip like flagellum and hostile environment would make me feel like Indiana Jones.

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