Nerdity Test, Squid Version
All technicalities count!
Self-Gratification
- Have you ever seen an hp?
- Touched an hp?
- Owned an hp?
- Fondled an hp?
- Pushed the hp's button?
- Have you ever done homework that's not yours?
- Done homework over the phone?
- Read or bought any explicit mathematical materials?
- Read or bought technical journals (for the pictures, not the articles)?
Know Thyself
- Can you read faster than 2400 baud? (extra point if over 9600 baud)
- Have you ever worn a pocket protector?
- Have you ever examined a log table?
- Touched a log table?
- Thought about it's design and possible function?
- Manipulated trig identities?
- Experienced Galilean transformation?
- Experienced Lorentzian transformation?
- Do you speak/use more than 5 languages? (Computer languages count)
- Done mathematical induction?
- Do you have a floppy disk?
- A hard disk?
- A flying disc (frisbee)?
- Have you ever experimented with more than one thermodynamic law in the same day?
- Have you ever integrated by parts?
- Used the right-hand-rule?
- Been motivated by quest for knowledge?
- Been motivated by quest for money?
- Experienced an E-field and a B-field?
- Never scored below average in a test?
- Do you wear glasses? (contacts and sun glasses do not count)
- Have you ever integrated in a teacher's presence?
- Changed your major because of a class.
- Been forced to do RPN by a member of the opposite sex?
- Enjoyed it so much you considered quitting school?
- Fantasized about a non-linear least-squares-fit?
Skills Of Which We Do Not Know
- Have you ever integrated an equation with discontinuities?
- Integrated to success?
- Integrated to excess?
- Used a CRC?
- Used a CRC within the last week?
- Used a CRC more than 5 times in one night or one continuous sitting?
- Used frictionless surfaces, massless strings or pulleys for other than their specified purpose?
- Skipped class for the sole purpose of studying?
- Completed homework at least one week in advance?
- Used a harmonic oscillator?
- Found its period?
- Blown your own glassware?
- Never used an ammeter in parallel or a voltmeter in series?
- High scored a test?
Nerd Bonding
- Have you ever tasted a solution?
- Tasted a supersaturated solution?
- Tasted your friend's supersaturated solution?
- Tried titration?
- Titrated in a public place?
- Titrated your friend's solution?
- Missed the equivalence point?
- Written up the experiment?
- Faked the results?
- Talked about binomial expansion to a person of the opposite sex?
- Attended a seminar?
- Enjoyed it?
- Have you graded?
- Have you memorized Newton's Laws.
- Have you ever put an object in motion?
- Did it stay in motion?
- Have you ever been attracted to a large body?
- Used physics as a pick-up, get-to-know-better routine on someone.
- Done homework in a group greater than 10 people?
- Have you experienced acceleration ( F over m )?
- Known a person who was admittedly into AC/DC (Analog Conversion / Digital Conversion)?
Skills Of Which We Do Not Want To Know
- Have you ever gotten DE's from a friend?
- Done P-Chem after 2am?
- Never done a re-do/re-write?
- Taken the nerdity test more than 5 times?
- Lied on the nerdity test?
- Given someone else a nerdity point?
- Been mathematically motivated?
- Exaggerated about any mathematical event? (kludging on math homework counts)
- Graphed a saddle point?
- Graphed a monkey seat?
- Engaged in Fourier with the intension of differentiating?
Kinky Stuff
- Double majored? (or even thought about it)
- Pulled more than 3 consecutive all-nighters?
- Been in lab for more than 5 hours straight?
- Differentiated by definition for more than 1 year .
- Differentiated with the chain rule?
- Been into E & M?
- Chemical bondage?
- Rigorous mathematical proofs?
- Purposely scheduled a Friday lab?
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