Although the jocks and preps tend to be the teacher’s pet, there are students that works even harder in school. There are the nerds. A nerd is a person that is overly intellectual, obsessive, or lacking social skills. They strive for academic excellence, and their social life revolves around school related activities. Math Club, marching band, debate team and physics club are some examples of their involvement in school. They take advanced classes, and are the honor students of their class. However, they don’t have “street smarts”, so they lack friends outside of their academic success. “Because of their unusually technical passions, nerds aren’t well understood by “normal people” and are generally perceived as anti-social, unfashionable and awkward.” (Matsick) Although this is only the stereotype of a “nerd”, it is how many are classified, and how they classify themselves.