65 % Nerd

After running the 3rd Girl Geek Afternoon Tea workshop yesterday (we had lots of fun building PCs from parts, got our hands dirty and had tons of tea and biscuits – epic WIN!), I thought about what it meant to me to define myself as a “geek”. Fortunately, there are tests on the internet, that could help me solve this question quickly. My result: I am a nerd.

Pure Nerd

65 % Nerd, 30% Geek, 17% Dork

The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the “dork.” No-longer. Being smart isn’t as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

That’s ok with me, I guess.

In terms of research, I’m finally getting somewhere: I’ve written my first “paper” (more like a test run for a real paper, which was reviewed in our academic writing seminar and got completely taken apart by fellow PhD students) and gave a presentation to my research group (which was followed by a very interesting discussion with lots of great ideas and input from everyone, thanks for that!).

I finally got all the Java APIs to work together (yay!) and can run experiments on various ontologies, which is quite exciting and insightful. I’m hoping to get some useful information from the results, which I can then use for my first “real” paper. I’ll let you know how it goes… đŸ™‚

I wish you all a nice and relaxing Easter break!