The Day I Joined the Nerds

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Hi Mum, guess what! I’ve got a friend! No, not like the last one. No, not on the internet. No mum, she really is a girl this time.
                                                                                              — Skins, “Pandora”

The day I joined the nerds wasn’t really a day, to be honest. I’d been too much of a nerd already to even realise I was one. However, the day I officially joined the nerds was the day I enrolled for computer science classes. I was almost twelve when my old (Catholic boarding) school introduced extra-curricular activities such as computer sciences (conservative educational ideals had finally caught up with the 21^st century). A few of my classmates and I were the first ones to be taught how to use computer programmes beyond the stuff we knew from home. We were the only ones allowed in the computer lab. Back then, we were the cool kids.