A 'nerd', to me, is a savvy person who strives for educational excellence...usually wears glasses and polo-shirts. This differs from a 'geek'--who lives by the computer.

Me! (at least a little bit...) ;)

A nerd is a dude or dudette that studies a lot is very intelligent, mostly in the technical subjects, and has a hard time getting along with others that are not nerds because, they have not develop their social skills as much as they have developed their skills in the technical areas.

Nerd is a term often bearing a derogatory connotation or stereotype, that refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual activities, esoteric knowledge, or other obscure interests that are age inappropriate rather than engaging in more social or popular activities. Therefore, a nerd is often excluded from physical activity and considered a loner by peers. -WIK (If I could have written that I would have to be concidered one of them:)

A guy that puts a condom on his head.

Nerd is usally someone who his intrested in the excessive pursuit of knowledge. They usally have communication problems and dont mix in with society, and I associate especially computer nerds.

1. A foolish, inept, or unattractive person. 2. A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept. WORD HISTORY The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo: “And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!” (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled “ABC for SQUARES”: “Nerd—a square, any explanation needed?” Many of the terms defined in this “ABC” are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss “square,” the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: “Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits.... An uninteresting person, a ‘dud.’” Authorities disagree on whether the two nerds—Dr. Seuss's small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mail—are the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.” Computer Desktop Encyclopedia: nerd A person typically thought of as introspective, antisocial and one who likes technical work. The origin of the term is most often attributed to an angry little man in Dr. Seuss's book "If I Ran the Zoo" in 1950. How the word evolved into the mainstream is unclear. Nerd, as a stereotypical, archetypal and frequently derogatory designation, refers to a person who passionately pursues intellectual or esoteric knowledge or pastimes rather than engaging in social life, such as participating in organized sports or other mainstream social activities. Merriam-Webster defines a nerd as an "unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person: especially: one slavishly devoted to intellectual or academic pursuits." While nerd, dork, and geek share in passionate intellectual pursuits and social ineptitude, nerd has the added implication of being affable and amusing. A nerd is often excluded from physical activity, and is often considered a loner by peers.

Most all nerds are extremely intelligent people that have never been able to fit in. Albert Einstien was a nerd. U.S. Grant was a nerd. Abraham Lincoln would have been a nerd. And believe it or not, most all cops, firefighters and war heroes have been nerds.

I'm a nerd, I freely admit it, and my operational definition of nerd, it enjoying the pursuit of knowledge, and loving to spread my random knowledge around. I'm the kind of person who could say "you just got SCIENCED!!", but I don't. But I'm not a genious that skipped grades or could belong to menza