Geek-Filled College Has Required Social Skills Classes

[Aur0ra145]

That's it, I'm road tripping to this college and throwing a party for them.

 

[SilentHunter7]

I take Computer Science at Penn State. They should take a road trip down there. There's a reason they call it "Happy Valley". I heard even the Chess club got busted at one point for noise complaints and underage drinking.

 

[Bat Vader]

Lol, as if social skills are needed in a programming job.

I know, we geeks are married to our computers.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

If they're not doing the basic things required to get relationships, they'll die out and we'll be left with a world full of jocks banging each others skulls together, drinking kegs and watching sports TV all day.

...this is assuming that being a geek is a hereditary trait, which I have a hard time believing.

Intelligence has been shown to be a [i/]HIGHLY[/i] genetic trait, the environment usually can only have detrimental effects on intelligence.

 

[Simon Hadow]

Coolest... College... Ever!!!

 

[SaintWaldo]

If they're not doing the basic things required to get relationships, they'll die out and we'll be left with a world full of jocks banging each others skulls together, drinking kegs and watching sports TV all day.

...this is assuming that being a geek is a hereditary trait, which I have a hard time believing.

Intelligence has been shown to be a [i/]HIGHLY[/i] genetic trait, the environment usually can only have detrimental effects on intelligence.

Intelligence != geek. Geek != bad hygiene.

Fallacy of composition. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_composition] Learn it. Love it. Stop falling into it.

And, SenseOfTumor, you basically described the plot of Mike Judge's film, Idiocracy [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/]. I recommend it.

 

[nokelso]

A person will not be more social if they don't want to, like you don't throw someone in rehab when they refuse and will just shoot up heroine the first chance they get. Why do they think classes are going to help at all?

 

[LadyZephyr]

And that's a girl saying that.

Meaning? :eyebrow: